From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-02-19T01:59:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Bindings for POI

In article <1108742660.719012.12390@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
Avik Sengupta <avik.sengupta@gmail.com> wrote:
>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.
>

That's interesting.  This is the first I've heard of anyone wrapping a 
Java library in this manner.  An article describing how you did this would 
be very nice - and you could probably get it published somewhere.


Phil