POI/HSSF Question

[Arthur.Marino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi All,

I need to retrieve an Excel Date field from a cell (format is 'custom' 
mm/dd/yy). Good old Scott K. has a service program procedure for this 
called "hssf_xls2date" which takes as its only parameter an Excel date 
expressed as a "jdouble" (days since 01-01-1900) and returns an RPG Date 
field. But since I don't know how to define a "jdouble" field, I'm stuck. 

Do I need to create a 'wrapper' proc in the service program that accepts 
an integer (or a float) and converts it to jdouble and then invokes 
"hssf_xls2date" OR can I just pass "hssf_xls2date" an integer (or float) 
and trust that it will know what to do with it. 

If I have to add a proc to the service program (above), after I add a new 
EXPORT list to my QSRVSRC member, I don't need to re-compile ANY of the 
old programs that don't care about the new proc, RIGHT?

Thanks.

Arthur J. Marino