The Apache Software Foundation
The POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.5 beta6, our latest beta including OOXML (Office Open XML) support.
Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. With POI 3.5, it supports the new OOXML (Office Open XML) formats introduced in Office 2007. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details
The status of this release is a beta, meaning that we encourage users to try it out. If you find any bugs, please report them to the POI bug database or to the poi-dev mailing list.
A full list of changes is available in the change log:
http://poi.apache.org/changes.html
The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/
The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.5-beta6".
For the Apache POI Team
Yegor Kozlov