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<section><title>Jakarta Poi - Brief Project History</title>
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<p>The POI project was dreamed up back around April 2001, when
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<p>The Poi project was dreamed up back around April 2001, when
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Andrew Oliver landed a short term contract to do Java-based
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reporting to Excel. He'd done this project a few times before
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and knew right where to look for the tools he needed.
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on Marc's library. Several users wrote in asking to read XLS
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(not just write as had originally been planned) and one user
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had special requests for a different use for POIFS. Before
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long, the project scope had tripled. POI 1.0 was released a
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long, the project scope had tripled. Poi 1.0 was released a
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month later than planned, but with far more features. Marc
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quickly wrote the serializer framework and HSSF Serializer in
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record time and Andrew banged out more documentation and worked
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on making people aware of the project
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</p>
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<p> Shortly before the release, POI was fortunate to come into
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<p> Shortly before the release, Poi was fortunate to come into
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contact with Nicola -Ken- Barrozzi who gave them samples for
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the HSSF Serializer and help uncover its unfortunate bugs
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(which were promptly fixed). More recently, Ken ported most
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of the POI project documentation to XML from Andrew's crappy
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of the Poi project documentation to XML from Andrew's crappy
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HTML docs he wrote with Star Office.
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</p>
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joined the project. Glen was ticked off at Andrew's flippant attitude
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towards adding graphing to HSSF. Glen got so ticked off he decided to
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grab a hammer and do it himself. Glen has already become an integral
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part of the POI development community; his contributions to HSSF have
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part of the Poi development community; his contributions to HSSF have
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already started making waves.
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</p>
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Cocoon Project</link>, only to discover the project had
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outgrown fitting nicely into just Cocoon long ago.
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Furthermore, Andrew started eyeing other projects he'd like to
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see POI functionality added to. So it was decided to donate
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the Serializers and Generators to Cocoon, other POI
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integration components to other projects, and the POI APIs
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see Poi functionality added to. So it was decided to donate
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the Serializers and Generators to Cocoon, other Poi
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integration components to other projects, and the Poi APIs
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would become part of Jakarta. It was a bumpy road but it
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looks like everything turned out since you're reading this!
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</p>
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</section>
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<section><title>What's next for POI</title>
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<section><title>What's next for Poi</title>
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<!-- <p>First we'll tackle this from a project standpoint: Well, we
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made an offer to Microsoft and Actuate (tongue in cheek
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... well mostly) that we'd quit the project and retire if
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pay us to go away.
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</p>
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<p>Next, we've got some work to do here at Jakarta to finish
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integrating POI into the community. Furthermore, we're
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integrating Poi into the community. Furthermore, we're
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still transitioning the Serializer to Cocoon.
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</p>-->
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<p>HSSF, during the 2.0 cycle, will undergo a few
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hoping to add support for formulas during this cycle.
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</p>
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<p>We're beginning to expand our scope yet again. If we could
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do all of this for XLS files, what about Doc files or PPT
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files? We're thinking that our next component (HWSF - Manipulates
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do all of this for XLS files, what about Doc files or PowerPoint
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files? We're thinking that our next component (HWPF - Manipulates
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Word Processor Format) should follow the same pattern. We're hoping
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that new blood will join the team and allow us to tackle this
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even faster (in part because POIFS is already finished). But
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