I need documentation to use HDF with POI??

Question

On the site of POI, there's no explanation on hdf!
If someone can give me some doc to start my appli, it would be nice.
(I try to read a MS Word document)!
thanks

Answer 1

Did it two days ago. No shizerat.
You'll need to download the hdf code from
the "scratch section" of the poi site- which is how I got it to work.
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.poi.hpsf.*;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.eventfilesystem.*;
public class PoiTest {
public static void main(String[] args)
throws IOException
final String filename = args[0];
POIFSReader r = new POIFSReader();
r.registerListener(new MyPOIFSReaderListener(),
"\005SummaryInformation");
r.read(new FileInputStream(filename));
// create temp file of content
String curDir=System.getProperty("user.dir");
String pathSep=System.getProperty("file.separator");
String tempF=curDir+pathSep+"temp.txt";
testDoc td=new testDoc(filename, tempF);
td.getText();
} // end of class PoiTest
-----------Shizzy code, I know - but it worked for me----
----this is my docTest class I wrote to make it easy--
to get word into a text file---------------------------------------
import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.util.*;
import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.data.*;
import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSDocument;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.DocumentEntry;
import org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian;
class testDoc {
String origFileName;
String tempFile;
WordDocument wd;
testDoc(String origFileName, String tempFile) {
this.tempFile=tempFile;
this.origFileName=origFileName;
public void getText() {
try {
wd = new WordDocument(origFileName);
Writer out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(tempFile));
wd.writeAllText(out);
out.flush();
out.close();
catch (Exception eN) {
System.out.println("Error reading document:"+origFileName+"\n"+eN.toString());
} // end for getText
} // end of class