BootstrapConnector

Introduction

This software can be used by Java applications to bootstrap Apache OpenOffice when the Java UNO jars are downloaded from a Maven repository or otherwise in a different location than the soffice executable.

How-To

The original How-to can be found here OpenOffice.org Forum.

• Add the jar file from building this software to the classpath.
• Determine the folder of your OpenOffice.org executable “soffice.exe” (on Windows systems) or “soffice” (on *nix systems). On Windows it might be something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice 4\program", and on *nix for example something like “/opt/openoffice4/program”.
• Edit your Java source code file, that tries to get the connection by calling “Bootstrap.bootstrap()”. This is mostly done with a Java source code line looking like this:

XComponentContext xContext = Bootstrap.bootstrap();

• Add the following line to your import statements:

import ooo.connector.BootstrapSocketConnector;

• Add a line above “Bootstrap.bootstrap()” to assign the name of the folder of your OpenOffice.org executable to a String variable (note slash direction for Windows):

String oooExeFolder = “C:/Program Files (x86)/OpenOffice 4/program/”;

• Change the call of “Bootstrap.bootstrap()” to “BootstrapSocketConnector.bootstrap(oooExeFolder)”:

XComponentContext xContext = BootstrapSocketConnector.bootstrap(oooExeFolder);

Building

This software uses the Gradle build system and can be built with:

gradle clean jar Javadoc can be built with: gradle javadoc Or all at once: gradle clean javadoc jar

Credits

This software is based on source code found in bootstrapconnector.jar authored by OpenOffice.org forum user hol.sten in a OpenOffice.org forum post OpenOffice.org Forum.

License

This software and the application of the Apache License 2.0 is by permission granted by hol.sten and documented with the Apache OpenOffice PMC.

See src/main/resources/META-INF/CREDIT, LICENSE, and NOTICE files for more information.