On Friday 08 November 2002 10:13 am, T.J. Mather wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been thinking about writing an Excel Export
> filter using Apache POI.  It is very difficult to develop
> filters for MS Excel files, and it should be much easier to
> write an maintain a filter that re-uses an widely used
> and developed library (POI has several developers).  The
> catch is that the MS Excel filter would depend on GCJ 3.2
> or greater, but as all the major distros (Mandrake, Redhat, etc) have
> moved to GCC 3.2, I see this issue going away with time (especially
> considering how much time it would take to develop a filter
> as good as the POI library with such limited resources that
> KOffice has).

What is Apache POI?
I've never thought about mixing Java code with C++ code for a C++ program.
Isn't that messy to do that? Is there parts of KOffice doing that?

I know Java pretty well (it's what I use at work), but I don't feel like using 
it on KDE.

So, you guys believe it's a bad idea to write a filter from scratch? I've 
never done that, neither looked any code from KOffice, so I may have no clue 
where I'm going...

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