From e0bdd3e0d360fbd48095820b37b7c6dfbc1a7901 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tetsuya Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:37:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Andy -> Andrew / cocoon url change / removed the word "horrible" etc. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@353230 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- .../content/xdocs/historyandfuture.xml | 30 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/historyandfuture.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/historyandfuture.xml index 958e02fb84..cce2ddcae5 100644 --- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/historyandfuture.xml +++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/historyandfuture.xml @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
- Project History + Jakarta Poi - Project History @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ -
Brief Project History +
Jakarta Poi - Brief Project History

The POI project was dreamed up back around April 2001, when - Andy Oliver landed a short term contract to do Java-based + 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. Ironically, the API he used to use had skyrocketed from around @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ recommended the client fork out the $10K.

-

Around June 2001, Andy started thinking how great it would +

Around June 2001, Andrew started thinking how great it would be to have an open source Java tool to do this and, while he had some spare time, he started on the project and learned about OLE 2 Compound Document Format. After hitting some real @@ -32,19 +32,19 @@ his local Java User's Group (JUG) and asked if anyone else would be interested. He lucked out and the most talented Java programmer he'd ever met, Marc Johnson, joined the project. He - ran rings around Andy at porting OLE 2 CDF and rewrote his + ran rings around Andrew at porting OLE 2 CDF and rewrote his skeletal code into a more sophisticated library. It took Marc a few iterations to get something they were happy with.

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While Marc worked on that, Andy ported XLS to Java, based +

While Marc worked on that, Andrew ported XLS to Java, based 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 month later than planned, but with far more features. Marc quickly wrote the serializer framework and HSSF Serializer in - record time and Andy banged out more documentation and worked + record time and Andrew banged out more documentation and worked on making people aware of the project

@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ 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 Andy's crappy + of the POI project documentation to XML from Andrew's crappy HTML docs he wrote with Star Office.

Around the same time as the release, Glen Stampoultzis -joined the project. Glen was ticked off at Andy's flippant attitude +joined the project. Glen was ticked off at Andrew's flippant attitude towards adding graphing to HSSF. Glen got so ticked off he decided to grab a hammer and do it himself. Glen has already become an integral part of the POI development community; his contributions to HSSF have @@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ already started making waves.

Somewhere in there we decided to finally submit the project - to The Apache + to The Apache Cocoon Project, only to discover the project had outgrown fitting nicely into just Cocoon long ago. - Furthermore, Andy started eyeing other projects he'd like to + Furthermore, Andrew started eyeing other projects he'd like to see POI functionality added to. So it was decided to donate the Serializers and Generators to Cocoon, other POI integration components to other projects, and the POI APIs @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ already started making waves.

What's next for POI -

First we'll tackle this from a project standpoint: Well, we +

HSSF, during the 2.0 cycle, will undergo a few optimizations. We'll also be adding new features like a full implementation of Formulas and custom text formats. We're @@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ already started making waves.

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 (HDF - Horrible - Document Format) should follow the same pattern. We're hoping + files? We're thinking that our next component (HWSF - 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 maybe what we need most is you!

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