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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 - $300 ($US) to around $10K ($US). He figured it would take two - people around six months to write an Excel port so he - recommended the client fork out the $10K. - </p> - - -<p align="justify">Around June 2001, Andy 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 - stumpers he realized he'd need help. He posted a message to - 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 - skeletal code into a more sophisticated library. It took Marc - a few iterations to get something they were happy with. - </p> - - -<p align="justify">While Marc worked on that, Andy 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 - on making people aware of the project - </p> - - -<p align="justify"> 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 Andy's crappy - HTML docs he wrote with Star Office. - </p> - - -<p align="justify"> Around the same time as the release, Glen Stampoultzis -joined the project. Glen was ticked off at Andy'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 -already started making waves. - </p> - - -<p align="justify">Somewhere in there we decided to finally submit the project - to <a href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">The Apache - Cocoon Project</a>, only to discover the project had - outgrown fitting nicely into just Cocoon long ago. - Furthermore, Andy 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 - would become part of Jakarta. It was a bumpy road but it - looks like everything turned out since you're reading this! - </p> - - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>What's next for POI</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify">First we'll tackle this from a project standpoint: Well, we - made an offer to Microsoft and Actuate (tongue in cheek - ... well mostly) that we'd quit the project and retire if - they'd simply write us each a really large check. I've yet to - get a phone call or email so I'm assuming they're not going to - pay us to go away. - </p> - -<p align="justify">Next, we've got some work to do here at Jakarta to finish - integrating POI into the community. Furthermore, we're - still transitioning the Serializer to Cocoon. - </p> - -<p align="justify">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 - hoping to be able to generate smaller files by adding - write-support for RK, MulRK and MulBlank records. I'm also - going to work on a Cocoon 2 Generator. Currently, reading is - not very efficient in HSSF. This is mainly because in order to - write or modify, one needs to be able to update upstream - pointers to downstream data. To do this you have to have - everything between in memory. A Generator would allow SAX - events to be processed instead. (This will be based on the low - level structures). One of the great things about this is that, - you'll not only have a more efficient way to read the file, - you'll have a great way to use spreadsheets as XML data - sources. - </p> - -<p align="justify">The HSSF Serializer, will further separate into a general - framework for creating serializers for other formats and the - HSSF Serializer specific implementation. (This is largely - already true). We'll also be adding support for features - already supported by HSSF (styles, fonts, text formats). We're - hoping to add support for formulas during this cycle. - </p> - -<p align="justify">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 - that new blood will join the team and allow us to tackle this - even faster (in part because POIFS is already finished). 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