From: Avik Sengupta <avik.sengupta@...>
Date: 2005-02-19T01:04:53+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby Bindings for POI

POI (http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/) is a pure java library that reads
and writes OLE2 Compound Document Files; in particular, it excels at
processing MS Excel file formats.

I have just checked into the POI repository an initial attempt at
creating a Ruby wrapper for this library. This is done by compiling POI
with GCJ to create a native lib, and generating the Ruby wrappers with
SWIG.

Documentation is at: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poi-ruby.html

Note that this is at an initial stage, and further wrapping coverage is
coming soon... however I think it already has enough features to be
useful. See the testcases for examples of what you can do.

Hop on to poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org if you want to help develop this
further.

Thoughts/feedback/brickbats gratefully accepted.

Regards
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Avik Sengupta