RE: [Springframework-developer] Addition of jExcelView

[Alef A. <al...@jt...>]

More info on www.jexcel.org. Doesn't seem to have a huge community, but
has been around for quite some time and its stable...=20

Since a couple of months, we're using it in projects instead of POI. The
latter has major issues with including images and jexcel doesn't. It's
also a bit faster from my experiences...=20

Whether or not to include it in the core, I don't know. Jxl.jar is about
500k, Spring's integration code is just one class (resembling
AbstractExcelView).

About the extensions package: I can't make my mind up about this. On the
one hand I don't like it, since it raises the bar a bit for people that
want to start using Spring--which extensions should I have, do I need
the extensions package, etceterea... Have a look at Avalon. I never
quite liked the structure of there stuff (merlin, logkit, framework,
fortress, phoenix, excalibur, etcetera, arghhhh. Also, it really is
about the dependencies, isn't it?

On the other hand, we wouldn't want to end up with spring.jar being 3
mb...

If we could start over, I'd choose for having the core container
including AOP (so no JDBC, Hibernate, JDO, etcetera) in a separate
project and all the integration stuff in another project... But I guess
we can't change that anymore ;-).

Anyway, I overlooked the fact that we're going to have spring-1.1.2
released mid-November; so this means I can't introduce any
non-backwards-compatible changes until then (if at all). I'll commit the
code to the sandbox for now...

Alef




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> On Thu, October 14, 2004 14:34, Alef Arendsen said:
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> > For now, I'll add it as AbstractJExcelView with AbstractView as its=20
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> I can't find much info on JExcel (not heard of it before) -=20
> is there a website for it somewhere?
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> (currently in the
> sandbox) or will it live in the core release?
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