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Posted to user@poi.apache.org by Ryan Ackley <ry...@softartisans.com> on 2004/07/15 23:50:20 UTC
Leaving POI
All,
I have taken a new job with a company called SoftArtisans
(http://www.softartisans.com). They develop OfficeWriter, a Java/.NET
product for designing and delivering reports in Excel and Word
(http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-240.aspx). So in a
nutshell, I will be continuing to work on HWPF but it will be integrated
with SoftArtisans OfficeWriter product line and it will be a commercial,
for-sale, non-opensource product. They have also licensed the file
formats from Microsoft. So this means I will *never* be able to
contribute to HWPF development again.
The contributions that I have already made to POI will always be a part
of Apache and I hope that you find them useful. An article that Avik and
I wrote will be appearing in the August issue of Java Developer's
Journal and it covers the capabilities of the existing codebase of HWPF
in CVS.
It is very important to mention that SoftArtisans is committed to the
Java community. They support me continuing to work on open source
projects that do not directly compete with their commercial products. I
am looking forward to following other interests in the java open source
community that I haven't had the opportunity to participate in while
working on HWPF on my own time.
There are many of you that have expressed an interest in HWPF over the
years, I hope you will be interested in paying for a rock-solid
java/.NET Word library that will support ALL of the features of the file
format. At the present time, SoftArtisans offers an impressive
reporting product that preserves all of the features of Word and Excel.
Anyway, its been great working with all of you. My new email address
will be (ryana at softartisans dot com). Look me up sometime. Btw, I no
longer plan on answering any questions about HWPF unless you are a
SoftArtisans customer.
Cheers,
-Ryan
Re: Leaving POI
Posted by wolfgang unger <wo...@gmx.de>.
Hi Ryan,
I don't know you from the mailinglist here(only
from the source 'author ryan ackley'), since
I'm new here, but I want to thank your for
your work here!
I wish you good luck in your new job!
I would like to be part of the further development
of hwpf, do you know, who is the best
person to talk(write) to now?
I would like to try to develop some
classes for the ability to work with fiels, variables
and pictures.
Would be great, if you have a hint or more information.
Otherwise I would write something
stupid like:
//--
package org.apache.poi.hwpf.model;
import org.apache.poi.util.BitField;
import org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian;
import ......
public class PictureDescriptor
{
//
long lcb; // numnber of bytes
long cbHeader;
short mfpmm;
short mfpyExt;
short mfpxExt;
short mfphMF;
short dxaGoal;
short dyaGoal;
short mx;
short my;
short dxaCropLeft;
................
....
}
//--
best regards Wolfgang
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Re: Leaving POI
Posted by Rainer Klute <kl...@rainer-klute.de>.
Ryan,
I am sorry to hear you are leaving POI! However, I understand that you
have to make a living and want to work in the area of your interest. So
I wish you all the best and god bless you.
Best regards
Rainer Klute
Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
Dipl.-Inform.
Rainer Klute E-Mail: klute@rainer-klute.de
Körner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824
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Re: Leaving POI
Posted by Glen Stampoultzis <gs...@iinet.net.au>.
Sorry to see you go but glad to see you employed in your area of interest.
Good luck with your new job and thanks for all the good work you've put in
to date.
-- Glen
At 07:50 AM 16/07/2004, you wrote:
>All,
>
>
>
>I have taken a new job with a company called SoftArtisans
>(http://www.softartisans.com). They develop OfficeWriter, a Java/.NET
>product for designing and delivering reports in Excel and Word
>(http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-240.aspx). So in a
>nutshell, I will be continuing to work on HWPF but it will be integrated
>with SoftArtisans OfficeWriter product line and it will be a commercial,
>for-sale, non-opensource product. They have also licensed the file
>formats from Microsoft. So this means I will *never* be able to
>contribute to HWPF development again.
>
>
>
>The contributions that I have already made to POI will always be a part
>of Apache and I hope that you find them useful. An article that Avik and
>I wrote will be appearing in the August issue of Java Developer's
>Journal and it covers the capabilities of the existing codebase of HWPF
>in CVS.
>
>
>
>It is very important to mention that SoftArtisans is committed to the
>Java community. They support me continuing to work on open source
>projects that do not directly compete with their commercial products. I
>am looking forward to following other interests in the java open source
>community that I haven't had the opportunity to participate in while
>working on HWPF on my own time.
>
>
>
>There are many of you that have expressed an interest in HWPF over the
>years, I hope you will be interested in paying for a rock-solid
>java/.NET Word library that will support ALL of the features of the file
>format. At the present time, SoftArtisans offers an impressive
>reporting product that preserves all of the features of Word and Excel.
>
>
>
>Anyway, its been great working with all of you. My new email address
>will be (ryana at softartisans dot com). Look me up sometime. Btw, I no
>longer plan on answering any questions about HWPF unless you are a
>SoftArtisans customer.
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>
>-Ryan
Glen Stampoultzis
gstamp@iinet.net.au
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gstamp/glen/
Re: Leaving POI
Posted by Rainer Klute <kl...@rainer-klute.de>.
Ryan,
I am sorry to hear you are leaving POI! However, I understand that you
have to make a living and want to work in the area of your interest. So
I wish you all the best and god bless you.
Best regards
Rainer Klute
Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
Dipl.-Inform.
Rainer Klute E-Mail: klute@rainer-klute.de
Körner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824
D-44143 Dortmund Telefax: +49 231 5349423
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RE: Leaving POI
Posted by Paul Lee <pa...@skinnypigeon.com>.
Hi Ryan, we have never spoken (emailed, really) and I rarely post to the POI
list, but as a POI user I just want to let you know that I appreciate you
and everyone who worked on POI.
I wish you the best in your future endeavor!
Thanks!
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Ackley [mailto:ryana@softartisans.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 5:50 PM
To: poi-user@jakarta.apache.org; poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Leaving POI
All,
I have taken a new job with a company called SoftArtisans
(http://www.softartisans.com). They develop OfficeWriter, a Java/.NET
product for designing and delivering reports in Excel and Word
(http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-240.aspx). So in a
nutshell, I will be continuing to work on HWPF but it will be integrated
with SoftArtisans OfficeWriter product line and it will be a commercial,
for-sale, non-opensource product. They have also licensed the file
formats from Microsoft. So this means I will *never* be able to
contribute to HWPF development again.
The contributions that I have already made to POI will always be a part
of Apache and I hope that you find them useful. An article that Avik and
I wrote will be appearing in the August issue of Java Developer's
Journal and it covers the capabilities of the existing codebase of HWPF
in CVS.
It is very important to mention that SoftArtisans is committed to the
Java community. They support me continuing to work on open source
projects that do not directly compete with their commercial products. I
am looking forward to following other interests in the java open source
community that I haven't had the opportunity to participate in while
working on HWPF on my own time.
There are many of you that have expressed an interest in HWPF over the
years, I hope you will be interested in paying for a rock-solid
java/.NET Word library that will support ALL of the features of the file
format. At the present time, SoftArtisans offers an impressive
reporting product that preserves all of the features of Word and Excel.
Anyway, its been great working with all of you. My new email address
will be (ryana at softartisans dot com). Look me up sometime. Btw, I no
longer plan on answering any questions about HWPF unless you are a
SoftArtisans customer.
Cheers,
-Ryan
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RE: Leaving POI
Posted by Rainer Klute <kl...@rainer-klute.de>.
Am Mo, den 19.07.2004 schrieb Piers Taylor um 21:13:
> Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently
> reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is.
Piers,
it would be really great if you could continue Ryan's work.
Best regards
Rainer Klute
Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
Dipl.-Inform.
Rainer Klute E-Mail: klute@rainer-klute.de
Körner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824
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RE: Leaving POI
Posted by Glen Stampoultzis <gs...@iinet.net.au>.
To get started all you basically need to do is make a change then create a
patch. See:
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/getinvolved/index.html
Look forward to seeing your patches.
Regards,
Glen
At 01:34 PM 20/07/2004, you wrote:
>Congratulations Ryan,
>
>You have done a great work for this open source API,
>
>Regards
>Sudhakar
>
>Oliver,
>
>Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I
>would like to join your
>team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I
>am in working with
>different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of
>existing POI in short period.
>
>
>
>Thanks
>sudhakar
>
>
>
>
>--- Piers Taylor <ap...@2vu.com> wrote:
> > Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable
> > in the development of the Office integration work I did for
> > Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job!
> >
> > Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently
> > rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch).
> >
> > >unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)...
> >
> > Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently
> > reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Piers
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
> > Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07
> > To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org; poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Leaving POI
> >
> >
> > Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way to
> > bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD
> license
> > with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing
> you is
> > a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been LGPL
> > or even GPL.
> >
> > As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
> > contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
> > unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
> >
> > I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> > PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone steps
> > up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up to
> > the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
> > --
> > Andrew C. Oliver
> > http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
> > Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
> >
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
> > For Java and Excel, Got POI?
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> >
> >
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>
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Re: Leaving POI
Posted by ac...@apache.org.
agreed
--
Andrew C. Oliver
http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
For Java and Excel, Got POI?
> From: "Piers Taylor" <ap...@2vu.com>
> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:52:53 +0100
> To: "POI Developers List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: RE: Leaving POI
>
>> Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF.
>
> Good idea - I've been reviewing the position while
> preparing PATCH http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30235
> and believe we need to come up with a core fetures list
> with code examples. Then I would hope that HWPF could emerge
> from scratchpad and get more users and hopefully developers.
>
> I am keen to see Ryan's article that he refers to in his
> post http://www.mail-archive.com/poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg08390.html
>
>> ... An article that Avik and I wrote will be appearing in the August
>> issue of Java Developer's Journal and it covers the capabilities
>> of the existing codebase of HWPF in CVS. ...
>
> From this I think we should gather some opinion as to the
> "must have's" and then work from there.
>
> Comments welcome!
>
> Best regards all,
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
> Sent: 20 July 2004 17:49
> To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Leaving POI
>
>
> Excellent. Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF. Where to best
> focus the development effort.
> --
> Andrew C. Oliver
> http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
> Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
> For Java and Excel, Got POI?
>
> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost
> definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its
> general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with
> everything espoused in the above email.
>
>> From: "Koundinya \(Sudhakar Chavali\)" <su...@yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:34:21 -0700 (PDT)
>> To: POI Developers List <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
>> Subject: RE: Leaving POI
>>
>> Congratulations Ryan,
>>
>> You have done a great work for this open source API,
>>
>> Regards
>> Sudhakar
>>
>> Oliver,
>>
>> Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I
> would
>> like to join your
>> team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I
> am
>> in working with
>> different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of
> existing
>> POI in short period.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> sudhakar
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Piers Taylor <ap...@2vu.com> wrote:
>>> Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable
>>> in the development of the Office integration work I did for
>>> Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job!
>>>
>>> Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently
>>> rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch).
>>>
>>>> unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)...
>>>
>>> Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently
>>> reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Piers
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
>>> Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07
>>> To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org; poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: Leaving POI
>>>
>>>
>>> Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way
> to
>>> bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD
> license
>>> with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you
> is
>>> a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been
> LGPL
>>> or even GPL.
>>>
>>> As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
>>> contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
>>> unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
>>>
>>> I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
>>>
>>> -Andy
>>>
>>> PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone
> steps
>>> up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up
> to
>>> the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
>>> --
>>> Andrew C. Oliver
>>> http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
>>> Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
>>>
>>> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
>>> For Java and Excel, Got POI?
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> =====
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>> (1860-1925)
>>
>> "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein
>> (1879-1955)
>>
>> "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."- George
> Bernard
>> Shaw (1856-1950)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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RE: Leaving POI
Posted by Piers Taylor <ap...@2vu.com>.
>Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF.
Good idea - I've been reviewing the position while
preparing PATCH http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30235
and believe we need to come up with a core fetures list
with code examples. Then I would hope that HWPF could emerge
from scratchpad and get more users and hopefully developers.
I am keen to see Ryan's article that he refers to in his
post http://www.mail-archive.com/poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg08390.html
>... An article that Avik and I wrote will be appearing in the August
>issue of Java Developer's Journal and it covers the capabilities
>of the existing codebase of HWPF in CVS. ...
>From this I think we should gather some opinion as to the
"must have's" and then work from there.
Comments welcome!
Best regards all,
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
Sent: 20 July 2004 17:49
To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Leaving POI
Excellent. Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF. Where to best
focus the development effort.
--
Andrew C. Oliver
http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
For Java and Excel, Got POI?
The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost
definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its
general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with
everything espoused in the above email.
> From: "Koundinya \(Sudhakar Chavali\)" <su...@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:34:21 -0700 (PDT)
> To: POI Developers List <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: RE: Leaving POI
>
> Congratulations Ryan,
>
> You have done a great work for this open source API,
>
> Regards
> Sudhakar
>
> Oliver,
>
> Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I
would
> like to join your
> team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I
am
> in working with
> different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of
existing
> POI in short period.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> sudhakar
>
>
>
>
> --- Piers Taylor <ap...@2vu.com> wrote:
>> Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable
>> in the development of the Office integration work I did for
>> Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job!
>>
>> Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently
>> rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch).
>>
>>> unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)...
>>
>> Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently
>> reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Piers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
>> Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07
>> To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org; poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Leaving POI
>>
>>
>> Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way
to
>> bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD
license
>> with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you
is
>> a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been
LGPL
>> or even GPL.
>>
>> As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
>> contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
>> unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
>>
>> I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>> PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone
steps
>> up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up
to
>> the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
>> --
>> Andrew C. Oliver
>> http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
>> Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
>>
>> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
>> For Java and Excel, Got POI?
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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> (1860-1925)
>
> "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein
> (1879-1955)
>
> "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."- George
Bernard
> Shaw (1856-1950)
>
>
>
>
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Re: Leaving POI
Posted by ac...@apache.org.
Excellent. Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF. Where to best
focus the development effort.
--
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> From: "Koundinya \(Sudhakar Chavali\)" <su...@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:34:21 -0700 (PDT)
> To: POI Developers List <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: RE: Leaving POI
>
> Congratulations Ryan,
>
> You have done a great work for this open source API,
>
> Regards
> Sudhakar
>
> Oliver,
>
> Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I would
> like to join your
> team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I am
> in working with
> different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of existing
> POI in short period.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> sudhakar
>
>
>
>
> --- Piers Taylor <ap...@2vu.com> wrote:
>> Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable
>> in the development of the Office integration work I did for
>> Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job!
>>
>> Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently
>> rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch).
>>
>>> unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)...
>>
>> Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently
>> reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Piers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
>> Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07
>> To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org; poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Leaving POI
>>
>>
>> Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way to
>> bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD license
>> with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you is
>> a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been LGPL
>> or even GPL.
>>
>> As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
>> contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
>> unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
>>
>> I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>> PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone steps
>> up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up to
>> the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
>> --
>> Andrew C. Oliver
>> http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
>> Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
>>
>> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
>> For Java and Excel, Got POI?
>>
>>
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RE: Leaving POI
Posted by "Koundinya (Sudhakar Chavali)" <su...@yahoo.com>.
Congratulations Ryan,
You have done a great work for this open source API,
Regards
Sudhakar
Oliver,
Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I would like to join your
team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I am in working with
different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of existing POI in short period.
Thanks
sudhakar
--- Piers Taylor <ap...@2vu.com> wrote:
> Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable
> in the development of the Office integration work I did for
> Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job!
>
> Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently
> rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch).
>
> >unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)...
>
> Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently
> reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is.
>
> Best regards,
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
> Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07
> To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org; poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Leaving POI
>
>
> Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way to
> bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD license
> with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you is
> a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been LGPL
> or even GPL.
>
> As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
> contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
> unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
>
> I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
>
> -Andy
>
> PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone steps
> up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up to
> the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
> --
> Andrew C. Oliver
> http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
> Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
> For Java and Excel, Got POI?
>
>
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RE: Leaving POI
Posted by Piers Taylor <ap...@2vu.com>.
Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable
in the development of the Office integration work I did for
Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job!
Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently
rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch).
>unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)...
Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently
reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is.
Best regards,
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07
To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org; poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Leaving POI
Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way to
bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD license
with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you is
a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been LGPL
or even GPL.
As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
-Andy
PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone steps
up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up to
the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
--
Andrew C. Oliver
http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
For Java and Excel, Got POI?
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Re: Leaving POI
Posted by ac...@apache.org.
Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way to
bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD license
with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you is
a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been LGPL
or even GPL.
As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
-Andy
PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone steps
up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up to
the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
--
Andrew C. Oliver
http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
For Java and Excel, Got POI?
The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost
definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its
general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with
everything espoused in the above email.
> From: "Ryan Ackley" <ry...@softartisans.com>
> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:50:20 -0400
> To: <po...@jakarta.apache.org>, <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: Leaving POI
>
> All,
>
>
>
> I have taken a new job with a company called SoftArtisans
> (http://www.softartisans.com). They develop OfficeWriter, a Java/.NET
> product for designing and delivering reports in Excel and Word
> (http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-240.aspx). So in a
> nutshell, I will be continuing to work on HWPF but it will be integrated
> with SoftArtisans OfficeWriter product line and it will be a commercial,
> for-sale, non-opensource product. They have also licensed the file
> formats from Microsoft. So this means I will *never* be able to
> contribute to HWPF development again.
>
>
>
> The contributions that I have already made to POI will always be a part
> of Apache and I hope that you find them useful. An article that Avik and
> I wrote will be appearing in the August issue of Java Developer's
> Journal and it covers the capabilities of the existing codebase of HWPF
> in CVS.
>
>
>
> It is very important to mention that SoftArtisans is committed to the
> Java community. They support me continuing to work on open source
> projects that do not directly compete with their commercial products. I
> am looking forward to following other interests in the java open source
> community that I haven't had the opportunity to participate in while
> working on HWPF on my own time.
>
>
>
> There are many of you that have expressed an interest in HWPF over the
> years, I hope you will be interested in paying for a rock-solid
> java/.NET Word library that will support ALL of the features of the file
> format. At the present time, SoftArtisans offers an impressive
> reporting product that preserves all of the features of Word and Excel.
>
>
>
> Anyway, its been great working with all of you. My new email address
> will be (ryana at softartisans dot com). Look me up sometime. Btw, I no
> longer plan on answering any questions about HWPF unless you are a
> SoftArtisans customer.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> -Ryan
>
>
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Re: Leaving POI
Posted by Stephane James Vaucher <va...@cirano.qc.ca>.
Thanks for all of your work. Good luck with your new job.
sv
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Ryan Ackley wrote:
> All,
>
>
>
> I have taken a new job with a company called SoftArtisans
> (http://www.softartisans.com). They develop OfficeWriter, a Java/.NET
> product for designing and delivering reports in Excel and Word
> (http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-240.aspx). So in a
> nutshell, I will be continuing to work on HWPF but it will be integrated
> with SoftArtisans OfficeWriter product line and it will be a commercial,
> for-sale, non-opensource product. They have also licensed the file
> formats from Microsoft. So this means I will *never* be able to
> contribute to HWPF development again.
>
>
>
> The contributions that I have already made to POI will always be a part
> of Apache and I hope that you find them useful. An article that Avik and
> I wrote will be appearing in the August issue of Java Developer's
> Journal and it covers the capabilities of the existing codebase of HWPF
> in CVS.
>
>
>
> It is very important to mention that SoftArtisans is committed to the
> Java community. They support me continuing to work on open source
> projects that do not directly compete with their commercial products. I
> am looking forward to following other interests in the java open source
> community that I haven't had the opportunity to participate in while
> working on HWPF on my own time.
>
>
>
> There are many of you that have expressed an interest in HWPF over the
> years, I hope you will be interested in paying for a rock-solid
> java/.NET Word library that will support ALL of the features of the file
> format. At the present time, SoftArtisans offers an impressive
> reporting product that preserves all of the features of Word and Excel.
>
>
>
> Anyway, its been great working with all of you. My new email address
> will be (ryana at softartisans dot com). Look me up sometime. Btw, I no
> longer plan on answering any questions about HWPF unless you are a
> SoftArtisans customer.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> -Ryan
>
>
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Re: Leaving POI
Posted by ac...@apache.org.
Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way to
bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD license
with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you is
a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been LGPL
or even GPL.
As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
-Andy
PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone steps
up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up to
the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
--
Andrew C. Oliver
http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
For Java and Excel, Got POI?
The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost
definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its
general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with
everything espoused in the above email.
> From: "Ryan Ackley" <ry...@softartisans.com>
> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:50:20 -0400
> To: <po...@jakarta.apache.org>, <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: Leaving POI
>
> All,
>
>
>
> I have taken a new job with a company called SoftArtisans
> (http://www.softartisans.com). They develop OfficeWriter, a Java/.NET
> product for designing and delivering reports in Excel and Word
> (http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-240.aspx). So in a
> nutshell, I will be continuing to work on HWPF but it will be integrated
> with SoftArtisans OfficeWriter product line and it will be a commercial,
> for-sale, non-opensource product. They have also licensed the file
> formats from Microsoft. So this means I will *never* be able to
> contribute to HWPF development again.
>
>
>
> The contributions that I have already made to POI will always be a part
> of Apache and I hope that you find them useful. An article that Avik and
> I wrote will be appearing in the August issue of Java Developer's
> Journal and it covers the capabilities of the existing codebase of HWPF
> in CVS.
>
>
>
> It is very important to mention that SoftArtisans is committed to the
> Java community. They support me continuing to work on open source
> projects that do not directly compete with their commercial products. I
> am looking forward to following other interests in the java open source
> community that I haven't had the opportunity to participate in while
> working on HWPF on my own time.
>
>
>
> There are many of you that have expressed an interest in HWPF over the
> years, I hope you will be interested in paying for a rock-solid
> java/.NET Word library that will support ALL of the features of the file
> format. At the present time, SoftArtisans offers an impressive
> reporting product that preserves all of the features of Word and Excel.
>
>
>
> Anyway, its been great working with all of you. My new email address
> will be (ryana at softartisans dot com). Look me up sometime. Btw, I no
> longer plan on answering any questions about HWPF unless you are a
> SoftArtisans customer.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> -Ryan
>
>
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