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

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

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Julien Chable wrote:
> it's seems quite OK for me, however the first release (I hope a beta 
> release for the next month) will be a focus on the Open Packaging 
> Convention specifications, so all the implementation concerning Word, 
> Excel, PowerPoint has not yet begun (nor the decisions about the 
> architecture etc ...).

That's fair enough. I'd say if you were going to prioritise one bit, I'd 
go for a simple text extractor first - all the lucene users want something 
to do that :)

> So, from my side it's a little too early to take a decision about this 
> point, however I really like the idea and will contact and discuss this 
> point thoroughly on the POI mailing list for sure and as soon as 
> possible ;)

>From our perspective, it wouldn't be too bad if we jointly knocked out an 
interface, but we ended up implementing it before you. So, swing on by 
poi-dev when you have a moment, and we can work something out. You might 
even interest another developer or two, but I can't promise anything!

Nick