Jakarta POI help

[Jesse Walker]

Anyone have any experience downloading and installing the Jakarta POI? I have download the poi-bin-2.5.1-final-20040804.tar.gz and extracted to. I know I need to look for the Jakarta-commons.jar file and include the path in my classpath enviroment variable, either I downloaded the wrong thing or I have missed a step, I cannot find the file anywhere in my PC. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jesse

[Keith Lynn]

There should be a file called poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar

[Jesse Walker]

Ok, do I need to include that in my classpath, with a reference to the extact file or just the directory where it is stored in

[Keith Lynn]

You need the entire absolute path of the jar file in your CLASSPATH.

For example, if the poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar file is in /poi, then you would need something like

javac -classpath "...:/poi/poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar" file.java


where ... is whatever is currently in your CLASSPATH. (Here the : assumes you are using *nix).