From b27eab65d152562ed5a981ed96d628186a1e7cb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tetsuya The POI project was dreamed up back around April 2001, when
+ The Poi project was dreamed up back around April 2001, when
Andrew Oliver landed a short term contract to do Java-based
reporting to Excel. He'd done this project a few times before
and knew right where to look for the tools he needed.
@@ -41,18 +41,18 @@
on Marc's library. Several users wrote in asking to read XLS
(not just write as had originally been planned) and one user
had special requests for a different use for POIFS. Before
- long, the project scope had tripled. POI 1.0 was released a
+ long, the project scope had tripled. Poi 1.0 was released a
month later than planned, but with far more features. Marc
quickly wrote the serializer framework and HSSF Serializer in
record time and Andrew banged out more documentation and worked
on making people aware of the project
Shortly before the release, POI was fortunate to come into
+ Shortly before the release, Poi was fortunate to come into
contact with Nicola -Ken- Barrozzi who gave them samples for
the HSSF Serializer and help uncover its unfortunate bugs
(which were promptly fixed). More recently, Ken ported most
- of the POI project documentation to XML from Andrew's crappy
+ of the Poi project documentation to XML from Andrew's crappy
HTML docs he wrote with Star Office.
HSSF, during the 2.0 cycle, will undergo a few @@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ already started making waves. hoping to add support for formulas during this cycle.
We're beginning to expand our scope yet again. If we could - do all of this for XLS files, what about Doc files or PPT - files? We're thinking that our next component (HWSF - Manipulates + do all of this for XLS files, what about Doc files or PowerPoint + files? We're thinking that our next component (HWPF - Manipulates Word Processor Format) should follow the same pattern. We're hoping that new blood will join the team and allow us to tackle this even faster (in part because POIFS is already finished). But -- 2.39.5