From 38297e5f173a4a1b5623efb39782ff7bf95dbd48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicola Ken Barozzi Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:11:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Inserting the description of the project that was missing. Others please complete both this file and project-info.xml. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@352213 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- README.txt | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index e34c84ae7..3037a2c4d 100755 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -7,9 +7,33 @@ What is it? ----------- - - - + The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats + based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. + + A common misconception is that POI writes Excel files. POI is the name + of the project. + POI contains several components, one of which, HSSF, writes Excel files. + The following are components of the entire POI project. + + POIFS + ----- + The oldest and most stable part of the project. + It is our port of the OLE 2 Compound Document Format to pure Java. + It supports both read and write functionality. + All of our components ultimately rely on it by definition. + + HSSF + ----- + It's our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2002) file format (BIFF8) + to pure Java. It supports read and write capability. + + HDF + --- + It's our port of the Microsoft Word 97 file format to pure Java. + It supports read and write capability. + This component is in the early stages of design. + Jump in! + Where is it? ------------