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Re: Office Framework




On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Marcus S. Zarra wrote:

Is it actually going away? The way I read it was that Apple was not expanding it anymore. I have not seen anything that says they are removing the existing framework.

That is my understanding.

Besides, even if they _do_ remove the bridge, it is still not that rough to call Java from C. There is some overhead to spinning up a JVM, but for a long operation like pulling in an excel file, I would not worry about it.

Frankly, the time you save not having to parse that evil file format yourself may well give you enough resources to profile out any real performance problems.

Is there anything official saying that they are removing the existing framework? If not, then Java is perfectly viable for this type of work. Just write that portion in java and access it via Objective-C.

I have done this in the past, and it worked well.

After all, there is some very high quality Java code out there to talk to databases, push messages on a JMS queue, grab info from a running web server, etc. Why bother reinventing it, if it already exists and works?

Scott


On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:59 PM, email@hidden wrote:

You might check out POIFS at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poifs/ index.html

Its in Java, but you could probably spin it off as a process and use it that way.
Its too bad the java bridge is going away... anyways, its been improving steadily.
Hi,
is their any existing framework to extract Powerpoint and Excel file text?

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