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I've made some minor corrections where reading this - confused me. An example: in some places this document may refer to - POI API instead of POIFS API. When this vision was written we had - an incomplete understanding of the project. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - Lastly, the scope of the project expanded dramatically near the end - of the 1.0 cycle. Our vision at the time was to focus merely on the - Excel port (having no idea how the project would grow or be received) - and provide the OLE 2 Compound Document port for others to port later - formats. We now plan to spearhead these ports under the umbrella of - the POI project. So, you've been warned. Read on, but just realize - that we had a fuzzy view of things to come, and hindsight is 20-20. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - If I recall major holes were: a complete understanding of the format - of OLE 2 Compound Document format, Excel file format, and exactly how - Cocoon 2 Serializers worked. (that just about covers the whole range - huh?) - </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>1. Introduction</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>1.1 Purpose of this document</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The purpose of this document is to - collect, analyze and define high-level requirements, user needs and - features of the HSSF Serializer for Cocoon 2 and related libraries. - The HSSF Serializer is a java class supporting the Serializer - interface from the Cocoon 2 project and outputting in a compatible - format of that used by the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel '97. - The HSSF Serializer will be responsible for converting XML - spreadsheet-like documents into Excel-compatible XLS spreadsheets. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - - - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>1.2 Project Overview</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - Many web apps today hit a brick wall - when it comes to the user request that they be able to easily - manipulate their reports and data extracts in the popular Microsoft - Excel spreadsheet format. This often causes inferior technologies to be - chosen for the project simply because they easily support this - format. This project seeks to extend existing XML, Java and Apache - Cocoon 2 project technologies by: - </p> - - -<ul> - -<li> - providing an extensible library - (POIFS) which reads/writes in a compatable format to OLE 2 Compound - Document Format (aka Structured Storage Format) for easy - implementation of other document types; - </li> - -<li> - providing a library (HSSF) for - manipulating spreadsheet data and outputting it in a compatible - format to Microsoft Excel XLS format; - </li> - -<li> - and providing a Cocoon 2 - Serializer (HSSFSerializer) for serializing XML documents as - Excel-compatible spreadsheets. - </li> - -</ul> - - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</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>2. User Description</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2.1 User/Market Demographics</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - There are a number of enthusiastic - users of XML, UNIX and Java technology. Secondly, the Microsoft - solution for outputting Office Document formats often involves - actually manipulating the software as an OLE Server. This method - provides extremely low performance, extremely high overhead and is - only capable of handling one document at a time. - </p> - -<ol> - -<li> - Our intended audience for the HSSF - Serializer portion of this project are developers writing reports or - data extracts in XML format. - </li> - -<li> - Our intended audience for the HSSF - library portion of this project is ourselves as we are developing - the Serializer and anyone who needs to write to Excel spreadsheets - in a non-XML Java environment or who has specific needs not - addressed by the Serializer. - </li> - -<li> - Our intended audience for the - "POIFS" OLE 2 Compound Document format reader/writer is - ourselves as we are writing the HSSF library and secondly, anyone - wishing to provide other libraries for reading/writing OLE 2 - Compound Document Format in Java. - </li> - -</ol> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2.2. User environment</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The users of this software shall be - developers in a Java environment on any Operating System or power - users who are capable of XML document generation/deployment. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2.3. Key User Needs</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The OLE 2 Compound Document format is - undocumented for all practical purposes and cryptic for all - impractical purposes. Developer needs in this area include - documentation and an easy to use library for reading and writing in - this format without requiring the developer to have intimate - knowledge of the format. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - There is currently no good way to write - to Microsoft Excel documents from Java or from a non-Microsoft - Windows based platform for that matter. Developers need an easy to - use library that supports a reasonable feature set and allows - seperation of data from formatting/stylistic concerns. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - There is currently no good way to - transform XML data to Microsoft Excel. Apache's Cocoon 2 project - supplies a complete framework for XML, but nothing for outputting in - Excel's XLS format. Developers and power users alike need a simple - method to output XML documents to Excel through server-side - processing. - </p> - - - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2.4. Alternatives and Competition</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - Originally there weren't any decent <a href="../hssf/alternatives.html">alternatives</a> for reading or writing - to Excel. This has changed somewhat. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</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>3. Project Overview</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3.1. Project Perspective</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The produced code shall be licensed by - the Apache License as used by the Cocoon 2 project and maintained on - a project page until such time as the Cocoon 2 developers accept it - as a donation (at which time the copyright will be turned over to - them). - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3.2. Project Position Statement</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - For developers on a Java and/or XML - environment this project will provide all the tools necessary for - outputting XML data in the Microsoft Excel format. This project seeks - to make the use of Microsoft Windows based servers unnecessary for - file format considerations and to fully document the OLE 2 Compound - Document format. The project aims not only to provide the tools for - serializing XML to Excel's file format and the tools for writing to - that file format from Java, but also to provide the tools for later - projects to convert other OLE 2 Compound Document formats to pure - Java APIs. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3.3. Summary of Capabilities</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - HSSF Serializer for Apache Cocoon 2 - </p> - -<table width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Benefit - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Supporting Features - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Standard XML tag language for sheet data - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Serializer will transform documents utilizing a defined tag - language - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Utilize XML to output in Excel - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Serializer will output in Excel - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Java API to output in Excel on any platform - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - The project will develop an API that outputs in Excel using - pure Java. - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Make it easy for developers to port other OLE 2 Compound - Document-based formats to Java. - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - The POIFS library will contain both a high-level abstraction - along with low-level constructs. The project will fully document - the OLE 2 Compound Document Format. - </font></td> - -</tr> -</table> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3.4. Assumptions and Dependencies</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<ul> - -<li> - The HSSF Serializer will run on - any Java 2 supporting platform with Apache Cocoon 2 installed along - with the HSSF and POIFS APIs. - </li> - -<li> - The HSSF API requires a Java 2 - implementation and the POI API. - </li> - -<li> - The POIFS API requires a Java 2 - implementation. - </li> - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</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>4. Project Features</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The POIFS API will include: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li> - Low level structures representing - the structures in a POI filesystems. - </li> - -<li> - A low-level API for - creating/manipulating POI filesystems. - </li> - -<li> - A set of high level interfaces - abstracting the user from the POI filesystem constructs and - representing it as a standard filesystem (Files, directories, etc) - </li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF API will include: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li> - Low level structures representing - the structures in an Excel file. - </li> - -<li> - A low-level API for creating and - manipulating Excel files and writing them into POI filesystems. - </li> - -<li> - A high level model and style - interface for manipulating spreadsheet data without knowing anything - about the Excel format itself. - </li> - -</ul> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>4.1 POI Filesystem API</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The POI Filesystem API includes: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>An implementation of Big Blocks</li> - -<li>An implementation of Small Blocks</li> - -<li>An implementation of Header Blocks</li> - -<li>An implementation of Block Allocation Tables</li> - -<li>An implementation of Property Sets</li> - -<li>An implementation of the POI - filesystem including functions to get and set the above constructs; - compound functions for reading/writing files/directories. - </li> - -<li>An abstraction of the POI - filesystem providing interfaces representing Files, Directories, - FileSystems in normal terminology and encapulating the above - constructs. - </li> - -<li>Full documentation of the POI file - format. - </li> - -<li>Full documentation of the APIs and - interfaces provided through Javadoc, user documentation (aimed at - developers using the APIs) - </li> - -<li>Examples aimed at teaching the - user to write code using POI. (titled: recipes for POI) - </li> - -<li>Performance specifications. - (Example POI filesystems rated by some measure of complexity along - with system specifications and execution times for given operations) - </li> - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>4.2 HSSF API</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF API includes: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>An implementation of Record - (binary 2 byte type followed by 2 byte size (n) followed by n bytes)</li> - -<li>Implementations of many standard - record types mapping the data bytes to fields along with methods to - reserialize those fields</li> - -<li>An implementation of the HSSF File - including functions to get/set the above constructs, create a blank - file with the minimum required record types and mappings between - getting/setting data and style in a workbook to the creation of - record types, and read HSSF files.</li> - -<li>An abstraction of the HSSF file - format providing interfaces representing the HSSF File, HSSF - Workbook, HSSF Sheet, HSSF Column, HSSF Formulas in a manner - seperating the data from the styling and encapsulating the above - constructs.</li> - -<li>Full documentation of the HSSF - file format (which will be a subset of the Excel '97 File format). - This must be done with care for legal reasons.</li> - -<li>Full documentation of the APIs and - interfaces provided through Javadoc, user documentation (aimed at - developers using the apis).</li> - -<li>Examples aimed at teaching - developers to use the APIs. - </li> - -<li>Performance specifications. - (Example files rated by some measure of complexity along with system - specifications and execution times for given operations - possibly - the same files used for POI's tests)</li> - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>4.3 HSSF Serializer</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF Serializer subproject: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>A class supporting the Cocoon 2 - Serializer Interface.</li> - -<li>An interface between the SAX - events and the HSSF APIs.</li> - -<li>A specified tag language for using - with the Serializer.</li> - -<li>Documentation on the tag language - for the HSSF Serializer</li> - -<li>Normal javadocs.</li> - -<li>Example XML files</li> - -<li>Performance specifications. - (Example XML docs and stylesheets rated by some measure of - complexity along with system specifications and execution times)</li> - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</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>5. Other Product Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5.1. Applicable Standards</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - All Java code will be 100% pure Java. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5.2. System Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The minimum system requirements for POIFS are: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>64 Mbytes memory</li> - -<li>Java 2 environment</li> - -<li>Pentium or better processor (or equivalent on other platforms)</li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify"> - The minimum system requirements for HSSF are: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>64 Mbytes memory</li> - -<li>Java 2 environment</li> - -<li>Pentium or better processor (or equivalent on other platforms)</li> - -<li>POIFS API</li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify"> - The minimum system requirements for the HSSF Serializer are: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>64 Mbytes memory</li> - -<li>Java 2 environment</li> - -<li>Pentium or better processor (or equivalent on other platforms)</li> - -<li>Cocoon 2</li> - -<li>HSSF API</li> - -<li>POI API</li> - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5.3. Performance Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - All components must perform well enough - to be practical for use in a webserver environment (especially - Cocoon2/Tomcat/Apache combo) - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5.4. Environmental Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The software will run primarily in - developer environments. We should make some allowances for - not-highly-technical users to write XML documents for the HSSF - Serializer. All other components will assume intermediate Java 2 - knowledge. No XML knowledge will be required except for using the - HSSF Serializer. As much documentation as is practical shall be - required for all components as XML is relatively new, and the - concepts introduced for writing spreadsheets and to POI filesystems - will be brand new to Java and many Java developers. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</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>6. Documentation Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.1 POI Filesystem</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The filesystem as read and written by - POI shall be fully documented and explained so that the average Java - developer can understand it. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.2. POI API</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The POI API will be fully documented - through Javadoc. A walkthrough of using the high level POI API shall - be provided. No documentation outside of the Javadoc shall be - provided for the low-level POI APIs. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.3. HSSF File Format</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF File Format as implemented by - the HSSF API will be fully documented. No documentation will be - provided for features that are not supported by HSSF API that are - supported by the Excel 97 File Format. Care will be taken not to - infringe on any "legal stuff". - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.4. HSSF API</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF API will be documented by - javadoc. A walkthrough of using the high level HSSF API shall be - provided. No documentation outside of the Javadoc shall be provided - for the low level HSSF APIs. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.5. HSSF Serializer</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF Serializer will be documented - by javadoc. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.6 HSSF Serializer Tag language</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The XML tag language along with - function and usage shall be fully documented. Examples will be - provided as well. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</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>7. 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