I’m very proud to announce this partnership as I am one of the involved developers. It is going to be an important step for my company on the way to spread Open Source in the Enterprise industry.

We are developing the Office open XML support inside the POI Apache project. New Microsoft Spreadsheets (Office 2007 format) will be soon java manageable!

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=640794&view=rev
Log:
XSSFCellStyle fillColors support; XSSFCellFill class; tests

Added:
poi/branches/ooxml/src/ooxml

/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/extensions/XSSFCellFill.java
poi/branches/ooxml/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/extensions/TestXSSFCellFill.java
Modified:
poi/branches/ooxml/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/model/StylesTable.java
poi/branches/ooxml/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFCellStyle.java
poi/branches/ooxml/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/TestXSSFCellStyle.java

…. I know that it does not sound so exciting for most of my readers, but this is just a self celebrating moment

The strange lines above are my first commit stacktrace as an Apache Commiter.

I have been working on the POI growing up project for a couple of months. We are basically providing Office Open XML support to the POI interfaces.

More to come about all that stuff..

.. oh, yes, you can reach me at the new address paolo-at-apache.org