Added some prose about our search for an HWPF pointman.
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<document>
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<header>
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<title>Jakarta POI - HWPF -Java APIs with XML manipulate MS-Word</title>
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<subtitle>Word file format</subtitle>
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<title>Jakarta POI - HWPF - Java API to Handle Microsoft Word Files</title>
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<subtitle>Word File Format</subtitle>
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<authors>
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<person name="S. Ryan Ackley" email="sackley@cfl.rr.com"/>
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</authors>
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<document>
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<header>
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<title>Jakarta POI - HWPF -Java APIs with XML manipulate MS-Word</title>
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<title>Jakarta POI - HWPF - Java API to Handle Microsoft Word Files</title>
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<subtitle>Overview</subtitle>
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<authors>
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<person name="Nicola Ken Barozzi" email="barozzi@nicolaken.com"/>
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<person name="Andrew C. Oliver" email="acoliver@apache.org"/>
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<person name="Ryan Ackley" email="sackley@apache.org"/>
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<person name="Rainer Klute" email="klute@apache.org"/>
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</authors>
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</header>
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<body>
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<section><title>Overview</title>
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<p>HWPF is the name of OUR port of the Microsoft Word 97(-2002) file format to
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pure Java.</p>
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<p>HWPF is still in early development. It is in the
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<link href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-poi/src/scratchpad/">scratchpad section of the
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CVS.</link> Source code in the <em>org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor</em> tree is
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legacy code. Source in the <em>org.apache.poi.hwpf.model</em>
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tree is the old legacy code refactored into an object model. Check the How-To
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page for detailed examples on using HWPF.
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</p>
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<p>
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We are looking for developers!!! If you are interested in helping with HWPF
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familiarize yourself with the source code and just start coding. Make sure
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you read the guidelines for <link href="http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/getinvolved/index.html">
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getting involved</link></p>
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<p>HWPF is the name of our port of the Microsoft Word 97(-2002) file format
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to pure Java.</p>
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<p>HWPF is still in early development. It is in the <link
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href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-poi/src/scratchpad/">
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scratchpad section of the CVS.</link> Source code in the
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<em>org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor</em> tree is legacy code. Source in the
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<em>org.apache.poi.hwpf.model</em> tree is the old legacy code refactored
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into an object model.</p>
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<section>
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<title>HWPF Pointman Needed!</title>
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<p>At the moment we unfortunately do not have someone taking care for HWPF
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and fostering its development. What we need is someone to stand up, take
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this thing under his hood as his baby and push it forward. Ryan Ackley,
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who put a lot of effort into HWPF, is no longer on board, so HWPF is an
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orphan child waiting to be adopted.</p>
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<p>If <strong>you</strong> are interested in becoming the new HWPF
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pointman, you should look into the Microsoft Word internals. A good
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starting point seems to be Ryan Ackley's <link
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href="docoverview.html">overview</link>. This document contains a link to
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a detailled Word format description you can find somewhere at
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<link href="http://www.wotsit.org/">http://www.wotsit.org/</link>. Please
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do not contact Ryan Ackley directly, because he is working for a company
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now that signed a NDA with Microsoft and thus he will be no longer able to
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answer questions.</p>
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<p>As a first step you should familiarize yourself with the source code,
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examples, test cases, and the HWPF patches available at <link
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href="http://issues.apache.org/">Bugzilla</link> (if any). Then you
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should compile an overview of</p>
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<ul>
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<li>the current HWPF status,</li>
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<li>the patches in <link
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href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/">Bugzilla</link> to be checked
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in (and those that should better be ditched),</li>
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<li>the available test cases and the test cases still to be written,</li>
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<li>the available documentation and the docs to be written,</li>
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<li>anything else that seems reasonable</li>
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</ul>
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<p>When you start start coding, you will not yet have write access to the
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CVS repository. Please submit your patches to <link
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href="http://issues.apache.org/">Bugzilla</link> and nag <link
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href="mailto:klute@apache.org">Rainer Klute</link> until he commits
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them. Besides the actual checking in of HWPF patches Rainer will also do
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some minor reviews now and then of your source code patches, test cases
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and documentation to help ensure software quality. But most of the time
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you will be on your own.</p>
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<p>Please do not forget to write <link
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href="http://www.junit.org/">JUnit</link> test cases and documentation!
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We won't accept code that doesn't come with test cases. And please
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consider that other contributors should be able to understand your source
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code easily. If you need any help getting started with JUnit test cases
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for HWPF, please ask on the developers' mailing list! If you show that you
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are prepared to stick at it you will most likely be given CVS commit
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access.</p>
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<p><strong>Important:</strong> It is legally vital for POI that you have
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never seen any documentation or specification from Microsoft that required
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you or your employer to sign an NDA to get it. Please do read the <link
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href="../getinvolved/index.html">"Contribution to POI" page</link> for
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details! This page also contains further information for you to start POI
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development.</p>
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<p>Of course we will help you as best as we can. However, presently there
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is no committer who is really familiar with the Word format, so you'll be
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mostly on your own. We are looking forward for you and your contributions!
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Honor and glory of becoming a POI committer are waiting!</p>
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</section>
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<title>Jakarta POI - HWPF - Java API to Handle Microsoft Word Files</title>
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<subtitle>Project Plan</subtitle>
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<authors>
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<person name="Ryan Ackley" email="sackley@apache.org"/>
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