Article:		Excel Reports with Apache Cocoon and POI
Subject:		Why do it hard when you can do it easy?
Date:		2003-04-19 13:47:47
From:		Ann Nonymous
This seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to when Cocoon already has a built-in Excel file generator. Also JFWIW, I think the preceding post violates xml.com's Terms of Service--specifically "2. Do not use this discussion area for any commercial purposes, to distribute any advertising or solicitation of funds or goods and services."

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• Why do it hard when you can do it easy?
  2003-04-29 22:47:43 Steven Punte [Reply]
  
  The technology "sweet spot" of using Cocoon +
  POI + Excel that is described in this article
  uses Excel as a beginning template. The
  previously existing HSSF serializer wasn't
  really built with this paradimg in mind: i.e.
  shifting around exsiting content dynamcially
  as new content is inserted. Thus, the reason
  for the custom Cocoon Excel POI serializer. It
  does some very specific actions on the excel
  binary doc to achieve the overall paradigm.

  
  Ooops, sorry, yes I may have violated an
  xml.com regulation here.