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<body>
- <section><title>February 06 2008 - POI 3.0.2 Released</title>
+ <section><title>POI 3.0.2 Released</title>
<p>The POI team is pleased to announce POI 3.0.2, the latest release of Apache POI.
There have been many important bug fixes since the 3.0.1 release and a lot of new features. A full list of changes is available in
<link href="./changes.html">the changelog</link>, and
<link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">download</link>
the source and binaries from your
<link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">local mirror</link>.
- </p>
- <p>
- The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.0.2-FINAL".
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section><title>POI 3.0.1 Release</title>
- <p>The latest release of Apache POI (formerly Apache Jakarta POI),
- version 3.0.1, has now been released. It contains a mixture of
- new features and bug fixes, compared to 3.0. A full list of changes
- is available in
- <link href="./changes.html">the changelog</link>, and
- <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">download</link>
- the source and binaries from your
- <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">local mirror</link>.</p>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The release is also available from the central Maven repository
+ under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.0.2-FINAL".
+ </p>
<p>We would also like to confirm that verions 3.0 and 3.0.1 of Apache
POI do
<em>not</em> contain any viruses. Users of broken virus checkers
which do detect a 94 byte file, sci_cec.db, as containing one are
advised to contact their vendor for a fix.</p>
- </section>
+ </section>
+ <section><title>Office Open XML Support</title>
+ <p>We are currently working to support the new Office Open XML
+ file formats, such as XLSX and PPTX, which were introduced in
+ Office 2007.</p>
+ <p>Support for these is currently only available in an svn branch,
+ but we hope to have a full release including it by the summer.
+ People interested should follow the
+ <link href="mailinglists.html">dev list</link> to track progress.</p>
+ </section>
<section><title>Purpose</title>
<p>
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats
- based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can
- read and write MS Excel files using Java. Soon, you'll be able to read and write
- Word files using Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Java Word solution.
- However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE 2 Compound Document formats and welcome
- others to participate.
+ based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java.
+ In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. Soon,
+ you'll be able to read and write Word, PowerPoint and Visio files
+ using Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Java
+ Word solution. However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE
+ 2 Compound Document formats, and welcome others to participate.
</p>
<p>
OLE 2 Compound Document Format based files include most Microsoft Office
- files such as XLS and DOC as well as MFC serialization API based file formats.
+ files such as XLS and DOC as well as MFC serialization API based file
+ formats.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ At this time, none of our releases support the new Office Open XML
+ file formats, such as .xlsx or .docx. Work to support these is in
+ progress, and people interested should follow the
+ <link href="mailinglists.html">dev list</link>. We expect this
+ support to make it into a full release by the summer.
</p>
<p>
- As a general policy we try to collaborate as much as possible with other projects to
- provide this functionality. Examples include: <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Cocoon</link> for
+ As a general policy, we try to collaborate as much as possible
+ with other projects to provide this functionality. Examples
+ include: <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Cocoon</link> for
which there are serializers for HSSF;
<link href="http://www.openoffice.org">Open Office.org</link> with whom we collaborate in documenting the
XLS format; and <link href="http://lucene.apache.org/">Lucene</link>
we say that POIFS is the most complete and correct implementation of this file format to date!
</p>
<p>
- You'd use HSSF if you needed to read or write an Excel file using Java (XLS). You can also read and modify
- spreadsheets using this API, although right now writing is more mature.
+ You'd use HSSF if you needed to read, write or modify an Excel file
+ using Java (XLS).
</p>
</section>
</section>
definition. Please see <link href="./poifs/index.html">the POIFS project page</link> for more information.</p>
</section>
<section><title>HSSF for Excel Documents</title>
- <p>HSSF is our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2003) file format (BIFF8) to pure Java. It supports read and write
- capability. Please see <link href="./hssf/index.html">the HSSF project page</link> for more information.</p>
+ <p>HSSF is our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2003) file
+ format (BIFF8) to pure Java. It supports read and write
+ capability. (Support for Excel 2007 .xlsx files is in progress).
+ Please see <link href="./hssf/index.html">the HSSF project
+ page</link> for more information.</p>
</section>
<section><title>HWPF for Word Documents</title>
<p>HWPF is our port of the Microsoft Word 97 file format to pure
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