[Openxml4j-devs] Common API to Apache POI?

[Nick B. <ope...@ga...>]

Hi Guys

I'm involved in Apache Jakarta's POI project, which is a pure java file 
format reader for the OLE2 office documents. A few of out users are 
starting to want to read the Office XML file formats, and openxml4j is 
what most are going with.

I was wondering if it might be worth us trying to come up with some common 
method signatures that we could both implement, to make it easaier for our 
users to switch between using OLE2 and OOXML documents in their code. 
While the file formats are very different, the entities stored within 
have a lot in common, so it initially seems there might be similar APIs 
needed for both.

What do you think?

Nick