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