Bug 45972

Summary: POI 3.5b3: OOXML needs too many support libraries
Product: POI Reporter: Richard Evans <richard.evans>
Component: XSSFAssignee: POI Developers List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 3.5-dev   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Richard Evans 2008-10-09 04:53:30 UTC 
You can read HSSF files using just the one POI jar.  If you want to read OOXML files, you need several other jars - dom4j, xmlbeans etc.  Is this really necessary given the built-in XML support in Java 5+?

Worse, the openxml4j jar includes explicit references to log4j.  It should use the java.util.logging framework so that the log4j jars are not needed at runtime.
Comment 1 Nick Burch 2008-10-13 08:26:35 UTC 
This isn't the place to report openxml4j bugs - that's http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=873223&group_id=175435&func=browse

XMLBeans is required to process the xml in the files in a sensible and developer time efficient manner, and that has its own dependencies