So what’s the fuss about the new Open XML file formats?

re: So what’s the fuss about the new Open XML file formats?

Julien Chable — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:20:49 GMT

Great post, I just have one more link for you :) : http://www.openxml4j.org/ A (the ?) Java API for Open XML, also created and developed by a French partner (Wygwam) ;-)

We made an interop demo with .NET/Windows <- WCF web service -> Linux/Java 6/J2EE server glassfish/OpenXML4J and of course it works very well and with no effort at all to build it !! I'll make a post next week about it on my blog (http://blogs.developpeur.org/neodante).

re: So what’s the fuss about the new Open XML file formats?

Justin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:53:11 GMT

I'm trying to build an excel spreadsheet that can pull information from a website powered by Reuters automatically so I don't have to enter data into the spreadsheet every week. Is this possible using XML and excel?

Happy News for Open XML Developers

Erika Ehrli — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:01:22 GMT

Many of you may have already heard that Office Open XML was approved as an ISO standard ! This is great

Building Office Business Applications : So what’s the fuss about the new Open XML file formats?

Weddings — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:49:15 GMT

You've probably been hearing about new Office 2007 file formats and that the fact that they are based on Open XML is a great benefit. But why? Why should you as developers care? Are they nothing more than just a compressed file format? Actually, they'r