Re: [Openxml4j-devs] Common API to Apache POI?

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

On Wed, 16 May 2007, Julien Chable wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, I have to configure my mail client in order not to 
> have mails from the mailing list flagged as spam ;-)

:)

> Yes, it could be interested to discuss more thoroughly about that point 
> ;-) Is it possible for you to send more details about your idea 
> concerning these common method signatures ?

If you're interested, it might be worth shifting the discussions over to 
the poi-dev list. We've got quite a few interested developers and users 
who I'm sure would have a lot to offer.


However, my broad idea was:
* some sort of common interface defining an excel file, a word file etc
    (excel is probably the main one for us, it's the area our code is
     strongest in, and has the most users)
* on that common excel interface, define ways to get at sheets, which
    let you get at rows, which let you get at cells etc
* quite possibly a similar (but much simpler) definition to our "user
    model API", assuming that's a good fit for your code (looked ok from an
    initial quick read)
 	http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hssf/quick-guide.html
 	http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hssf/how-to.html
* worry about powerpoint and word once we've got excel sorted :)

What do you think?

Nick