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Reformat index page slightly, and add some info on ooxml support being in progress, but not yet ready

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</header>
<body>
<section><title>February 06 2008 - POI 3.0.2 Released</title>
<section><title>POI 3.0.2 Released</title>
<p>The POI team is pleased to announce POI 3.0.2, the latest release of Apache POI.
There have been many important bug fixes since the 3.0.1 release and a lot of new features. A full list of changes is available in
<link href="./changes.html">the changelog</link>, and
<link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">download</link>
the source and binaries from your
<link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">local mirror</link>.
</p>
<p>
The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.0.2-FINAL".
</p>
</section>
<section><title>POI 3.0.1 Release</title>
<p>The latest release of Apache POI (formerly Apache Jakarta POI),
version 3.0.1, has now been released. It contains a mixture of
new features and bug fixes, compared to 3.0. A full list of changes
is available in
<link href="./changes.html">the changelog</link>, and
<link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">download</link>
the source and binaries from your
<link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">local mirror</link>.</p>
</p>
<p>
The release is also available from the central Maven repository
under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.0.2-FINAL".
</p>
<p>We would also like to confirm that verions 3.0 and 3.0.1 of Apache
POI do
<em>not</em> contain any viruses. Users of broken virus checkers
which do detect a 94 byte file, sci_cec.db, as containing one are
advised to contact their vendor for a fix.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Office Open XML Support</title>
<p>We are currently working to support the new Office Open XML
file formats, such as XLSX and PPTX, which were introduced in
Office 2007.</p>
<p>Support for these is currently only available in an svn branch,
but we hope to have a full release including it by the summer.
People interested should follow the
<link href="mailinglists.html">dev list</link> to track progress.</p>
</section>
<section><title>Purpose</title>
<p>
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats
based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can
read and write MS Excel files using Java. Soon, you'll be able to read and write
Word files using Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Java Word solution.
However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE 2 Compound Document formats and welcome
others to participate.
based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java.
In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. Soon,
you'll be able to read and write Word, PowerPoint and Visio files
using Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Java
Word solution. However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE
2 Compound Document formats, and welcome others to participate.
</p>
<p>
OLE 2 Compound Document Format based files include most Microsoft Office
files such as XLS and DOC as well as MFC serialization API based file formats.
files such as XLS and DOC as well as MFC serialization API based file
formats.
</p>
<p>
As a general policy we try to collaborate as much as possible with other projects to
provide this functionality. Examples include: <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Cocoon</link> for
At this time, none of our releases support the new Office Open XML
file formats, such as .xlsx or .docx. Work to support these is in
progress, and people interested should follow the
<link href="mailinglists.html">dev list</link>. We expect this
support to make it into a full release by the summer.
</p>
<p>
As a general policy, we try to collaborate as much as possible
with other projects to provide this functionality. Examples
include: <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Cocoon</link> for
which there are serializers for HSSF;
<link href="http://www.openoffice.org">Open Office.org</link> with whom we collaborate in documenting the
XLS format; and <link href="http://lucene.apache.org/">Lucene</link>
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we say that POIFS is the most complete and correct implementation of this file format to date!
</p>
<p>
You'd use HSSF if you needed to read or write an Excel file using Java (XLS). You can also read and modify
spreadsheets using this API, although right now writing is more mature.
You'd use HSSF if you needed to read, write or modify an Excel file
using Java (XLS).
</p>
</section>
</section>
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definition. Please see <link href="./poifs/index.html">the POIFS project page</link> for more information.</p>
</section>
<section><title>HSSF for Excel Documents</title>
<p>HSSF is our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2003) file format (BIFF8) to pure Java. It supports read and write
capability. Please see <link href="./hssf/index.html">the HSSF project page</link> for more information.</p>
<p>HSSF is our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2003) file
format (BIFF8) to pure Java. It supports read and write
capability. (Support for Excel 2007 .xlsx files is in progress).
Please see <link href="./hssf/index.html">the HSSF project
page</link> for more information.</p>
</section>
<section><title>HWPF for Word Documents</title>
<p>HWPF is our port of the Microsoft Word 97 file format to pure