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| author | Glen Stampoultzis <glens@apache.org> | 2002-03-30 11:42:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Glen Stampoultzis <glens@apache.org> | 2002-03-30 11:42:21 +0000 |
| commit | 7554e22482807be0f2de618d16dfd9f25bd15ec0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ca4dbacef3f6b835d0c01ddd1e81ddfb5f7919c /src | |
| parent | bb124077b5420d4112213235a4fa72c1fff635f8 (diff) | |
| download | poi-7554e22482807be0f2de618d16dfd9f25bd15ec0.tar.gz poi-7554e22482807be0f2de618d16dfd9f25bd15ec0.zip | |
Documentation updates
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@352299 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/alternatives.xml | 83 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/book.xml | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/diagrams.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI10Vision.xml | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI20Vision.xml | 27 |
6 files changed, 91 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/alternatives.xml b/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/alternatives.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1a422daee8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/alternatives.xml @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.0//EN" "../dtd/document-v10.dtd"> + +<document> + <header> + <title>HSSF</title> + <subtitle>Alternatives to HSSF</subtitle> + <authors> + <person name="Glen Stampoultzis" email="glens@apache.org"/> + </authors> + </header> + + <body> + <s1 title="Alternatives"> + <p> + Maybe it's unwise to advertise your competitors but we believe + competition is good and we have the best support reading and + write Excel workbooks currently available. + </p> + <table> + <tr> + <td><b>Product</b></td> + <td><b>URL</b></td> + <td><b>Description</b></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Formula One</td> + <td> + <link href="http://www.tidestone.com/">www.tidestone.com</link> + </td> + <td>An alternative to this project is to + buy the $10,000 Formula 1 library + and accept its crude api and limitations.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Visual Basic</td> + <td> + <link href="http://www.microsoft.com/">www.microsoft.com</link> + </td> + <td>Give up XML and write Visual Basic code on a Microsoft Windows based + Environment or output in Microsoft's beta and primarily undocumented + XML for office format.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>JExcel</td> + <td>http://stareyes.homeip.net:8888</td> + <td>Frequently unavailable. Little currently known about it's capabilities.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>JWorkbook</td> + <td>http://www.object-refinery.com/jworkbook/index.html</td> + <td>This effort supports Gnumeric and Excel, however the Excel part is done using POI anyway.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>xlReader</td> + <td><link href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd</link></td> + <td>Provides decent support for reading Excel.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Excel ODBC Driver</td> + <td><link href="http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm">http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm</link></td> + <td>ODBC offers a somewhat wierd method for using Excel.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>ExtenXLS</td> + <td><link href="http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp">http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp</link></td> + <td>Commercial library for reading, modifying and writing Excel spreadsheets. Not cheap but + certainly a lot more affordable than Formula 1. No idea as to it's quality.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>J-Integra Java-Excel Bridge</td> + <td><link href="http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp">http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp</link></td> + <td>Uses DCOM to an Excel instance on a windows machine.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Perl & C</td> + <td>-</td> + <td>There are a number of perl and C libraries, however none of them are consistent.</td> + </tr> + </table> + </s1> + </body> +</document> diff --git a/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/book.xml b/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/book.xml index 9e31b9bff9..8d5a8bca49 100644 --- a/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/book.xml +++ b/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/book.xml @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ <menu-item label="HOWTO" href="how-to.html"/> <menu-item label="Use Case" href="use-case.html"/> <menu-item label="Pictorial Docs" href="diagrams.html"/> + <menu-item label="Alternatives" href="alternatives.html"/> </menu> <menu label="Contributer's Guide"> diff --git a/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/diagrams.xml b/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/diagrams.xml index c459ec27db..1589074530 100644 --- a/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/diagrams.xml +++ b/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/diagrams.xml @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ </li> </ul> <p> - Have more? Add a new "bug" to the bug database with [DOCUMENTATION] + Have more? Add a new "bug" to the bug database with [DOCUMENTATION] prefacing the description and a link to the file on an http server somewhere. If you don't have your own webserver, then you can email it to (acoliver at apache dot org) provided its < 5MB. Diagrams should be diff --git a/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml b/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml index 5e9aa71d5e..c11b8183dc 100644 --- a/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml +++ b/src/documentation/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ <title>The New Halloween Document</title> <authors> <person email="acoliver2@users.sourceforge.net" name="Andrew C. Oliver" id="AO"/> + <person email="glens@apache.org" name="Glen Stampoultzis" id="GJS"/> </authors> </header> <body> diff --git a/src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI10Vision.xml b/src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI10Vision.xml index c49d7b39a5..ed22d59ed2 100644 --- a/src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI10Vision.xml +++ b/src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI10Vision.xml @@ -159,12 +159,8 @@ </s2> <s2 title="2.4. Alternatives and Competition"> <p> - The alternative to this project is to - buy the $10,000 Formula 1 library (<link href="http://www.tidestone.com/">www.tidestone.com</link>) - and accept its crude api and limitations. As a second alternative, - give up XML and write Visual Basic code on a Microsoft Windows based - Environment or output in Microsoft's beta and primarily undocumented - XML for office format. + Originally there weren't any decent <link href="../hssf/alternatives.html">alternatives</link> for reading or writing + to Excel. This has changed somewhat. </p> </s2> </s1> diff --git a/src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI20Vision.xml b/src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI20Vision.xml index 94e7065c12..59a7c25ae3 100644 --- a/src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI20Vision.xml +++ b/src/documentation/xdocs/plan/POI20Vision.xml @@ -216,30 +216,9 @@ </s2> <s2 title="2.4. Alternatives and Competition"> <p> - Alternatives to using HSSF to manipulate Excel files include: - </p> - <ol> - <li>Buy the $10,000 Formula 1 library - (<link href="http://www.f1j.com/">www.tidestone.com</link>) - now owned by Actuate and accept its crude api and limitations. - </li> - <li>Give up XML, Java, and operating system independence, and - write Visual Basic code in a Microsoft Windows based environment - </li> - <li>Try writing output in Microsoft's poorly documented XHTML - for Office format. - </li> - </ol> - <p> - There is also a decent library for - reading Excel documents written by Andy Khan called xlReader - (<link href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd</link>). - It does not provide write ability. - </p> - <p> - There are a number of PERL and C alternatives. - None are consistent. - </p> + Originally there weren't any decent <link href="../hssf/alternatives.html">alternatives</link> for reading or writing + to Excel. This has changed somewhat. + </p> </s2> </s1> <s1 title="3. Project Overview"> |