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| <h2><font color="#C63B16">Abstracts of Conference Papers - |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>OpenOffice.org Software |
| Development Kit (SDK) - For own solutions and products |
| based on OpenOffice.org and Java</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Jürgen Schmidt <em>Technical Lead |
| Software Engineering, Star Office Software Entwicklungs |
| GmbH</em></td> |
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| This session describes the opportunities to extend or |
| control OpenOffice.org with Java or other languages |
| where an UNO language binding exists.<br /> |
| OpenOffice.org is an open source driven office |
| productivity formerly based on StarOffice. While it |
| is widely known that OpenOffice.org is multi-platform |
| and that it is fully compatible with the Microsoft |
| Office formats, few to date are aware that it offers |
| a complete API for developers to support the creation |
| of own extension or the control of OpenOffice.org |
| from own applications. The API based on the Universal |
| Network Objects (UNO) component model which allows |
| the integration of 100% pure Java components in |
| OpenOffice.org. It is also possible to control |
| OpenOffice.org from a Java application to use the |
| provided office functionality for example a report |
| generator or a document converter.<br /> |
| The session gives an introduction into the UNO |
| component model and it will discuss the main API |
| concepts (hopefully this section will be an extra |
| session). The capabilities of the API are |
| demonstrated using some examples of Java-UNO |
| components. The session provides an overview about |
| the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit |
| (SDK).<br /> |
| The attendees will learn how to use, extend and |
| customize a professional office application with |
| Java. They learn to create highly integrated office |
| components in Java which are platform independent and |
| can be used on every platform where OpenOffice.org |
| and Java will be available. This is an advantage for |
| all who want to create extensions for their office |
| environment or a wider audience. |
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| <h4>Outline</h4> |
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| <li>Introduction |
| <ul> |
| <li>OpenOffice.org |
| - short overview (application |
| areas: writer, calc, draw, impress)</li> |
| <li>OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) |
| - short overview</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>(optional |
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| <li>The UNO component model</li> |
| <li>Introduction to UNO</li> |
| <li>Concepts</li> |
| <li>Key features</li> |
| <li>) |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Examples |
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| <li>Calc Add-in component |
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| <li>concepts</li> |
| <li>code sample</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Java application using a remote connection to |
| OpenOffice.org |
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| <li>demo of a document converter</li> |
| <li>code sample</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>OfficeBean |
| <ul> |
| <li>demo of simple examples</li> |
| <li>code sample</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
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| (the examples may change) |
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| <td><em>Biography: Jürgen Schmidt has worked |
| for StarOffice for over five years. He was deeply |
| involved in the development of the UNO component model |
| which is the foundation for the StarOffice API. |
| Currently he is technical lead for the StarOffice |
| Software Development Kit (SDK) which is used in |
| StarOffice and OpenOffice.org.</em></td> |
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| <p><a href="thursday.html" |
| title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p> |
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| <table id="ta1230" name="ta230" summary="Child work spaces" |
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| <td bgcolor="#184090"><font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>The |
| new development process - How Child |
| Work Spaces will improve the developer experience and |
| the quality</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Erwin Tenhumberg |
| <em>Product Marketing Manager, Desktop Solutions Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.</em> |
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| <td>Beginning with the OpenOffice.org 1.1 builds a new |
| development process based on Child Work Spaces (CWS) |
| was introduced. Due to the new development process |
| future StarOffice releases will be based on |
| OpenOffice.org and actually have most of the binaries |
| in common. What is even more important, the usage of |
| CWS makes it much easier for developers to contribute |
| to the OpenOffice.org project. New features and patches |
| can be developed and tested without interfering with |
| other projects.<br /> |
| This session will outline the new development process |
| and explain what tools are available. In addition, the |
| speaker will talk about the history and illustrate what |
| the benefits of the new process are compared to the |
| past.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: |
| Erwin Tenhumberg is a Product Marketing Manager in the |
| Desktop Solutions Group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Within this |
| group he mainly focusses on the developer aspects of both |
| OpenOffice.org and StarOffice[tm] including the SDK. |
| Erwin started working for Sun as a Systems Engineer in |
| Langen, Germany. There he did pre-sales for |
| various software products including StarOffice and SunRay[tm]. |
| Before Erwin joined Sun he worked for different companies where |
| he did Java consulting, software development and desktop |
| application administration and helpdesk.</em> |
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| <p><a href="thursday.html" |
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| <table id="ta1400" name="ta1400" summary="Glow project" |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong> |
| The Glow Project - an <i>outlook</i> for |
| OpenOffice.org Groupware |
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| <td>Colm Smyth <em>Staff Engineer with Sun |
| Microsystems</em></td> |
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| Glow is the codename for a groupware client project being |
| started within the OpenOffice.org Groupware initiative. |
| The presentation will describe the motivation, goals, |
| technologies and roadmap for Glow, |
| and introduce the initial team who are developing |
| the first milestone. |
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| <td><em>Biography: |
| Colm is a software developer with 16 years experience. |
| He has developed |
| clients, servers, middleware (object, content, data and messaging) |
| and some things that defy conventional classification. |
| He has been with Sun |
| for over 5 years and currently is a Technical Architect with |
| the StarOffice |
| team. Colm is an enthusiastic developer of rich clients in Java |
| and is Sun's lead engineer on the Glow project |
| within OpenOffice.org Groupware. |
| </em></td> |
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| <p><a href="thursday.html" |
| title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p> |
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| <table id="ta1500" name="ta1500" summary="Scripting" |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Scripting OpenOffice.org |
| in your language of choice.</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>John Rice <em>Staff Engineer with Sun |
| Microsystems</em></td> |
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| <td>The talk will describe the Scripting Framework |
| being developed to enable any scripting language which |
| has an UNO bridge to be plugged into OpenOffice.org. |
| Using the framework users and developers will be able |
| to write scripts in any supported scripting language to |
| automate OpenOffice.org.<br /> |
| Developers will learn about the overall design of the |
| scripting framework and how one would go about writing |
| their own scripting runtime to plug in their favorite |
| scripting language to OpenOffice.org. Details of the |
| Java, Beanshell and Python runtimes will be |
| presented.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: John Rice is a Staff Engineer with |
| Sun Microsystems, working as technical lead on the |
| Scripting Framework project for OpenOffice.org |
| (http://framework.openoffice.org/scripting). John has |
| over 15 years industrial experience in the development |
| of software applications. He has worked with companies |
| including Hitachi, Lotus and ICL, covering |
| a board range of development areas including neural |
| network research, Lotus Notes groupware products, ICL/ |
| Fujitsu's document management system and a number of |
| award winning internet based information management |
| tools.</em></td> |
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| <table id="ta1615" name="ta1615" summary="Localization" |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Web-based Distributed |
| Localization of OpenOffice.org</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>János Noll <em>Founder of Free Software |
| Foundation Hungary</em></td> |
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| <td>I will present two "in-house developed" web-based, |
| database-backed systems for distributed localization of |
| the OpenOffice.org messages and the help, respectively. |
| These systems allow involvement of a large number of |
| people in the localization of OpenOffice.org. This |
| system has been used for the Hungarian localization |
| (which is, sadly, far not 100% finished, as of today). |
| I will also present a "next generation" localization |
| tool, which is not implemented yet. This tool should |
| make localization as easy as clicking with the mouse |
| and entering text.<br /> |
| My talk will be about tools for OpenOffice.org |
| allowing distributed, Internet-based translation. I |
| will present two programs and scenarios which helped to |
| translatethe OpenOffice.org strings and the |
| OpenOffice.org help, and a plan of an interactive |
| program, that could make doing translations and |
| revisions easy and very productive.<br /> |
| The first program has been used to translate the |
| OpenOffice.org strings. The program provides a |
| database-backed web-based editor, where individual |
| strings can be searched for, translated and revised |
| (marked being good and appropriate) by the registered |
| translators. The program was written in the popular PHP |
| web programming language, and it is using Apache, |
| PostgreSQL, and is running on Linux. The translation |
| process also includes some scripts that bridge the gap |
| between the web-based translation engine and the |
| "standard" OpenOffice.org localization tools.<br /> |
| The second program has been used to translate the |
| OpenOffice.org help. This tool is conceptionally |
| similar to the first, but due to the different |
| structure of the material to-be-translated and the |
| different tools it uses (T9N toolkit), it has a |
| slightly different structure which makes it worth to |
| present this separately.<br /> |
| And last, there is an idea for an interactive, client |
| program, which can "look up" the message string on the |
| screen under the mouse cursor in a translation |
| database, and by identifying it, it can provide access |
| to the translation allowing to modify or revise it. |
| This application would radically speed up testing |
| (QA-ing) a localized OpenOffice.org program.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: I have been a Linux user and |
| programmer for 5-6 years now. In the past years, it was |
| an honor for me to take part in two Hungarian civil |
| societies, the "LME" (Association of Hungarian Linux |
| Users), founded in 1998, and the "FSF.hu Foundation for |
| Propagating and Supporting Free Software in Hungary". I |
| am using Linux at home and at work, which implies that |
| I needed a good Office product for writing documents, |
| presentations and so on. OpenOffice.org fullfilled my |
| needs, and I've been using it for two years now. |
| OpenOffice.org localization in Hungary has been lacking |
| (at least localization of the "GPL" version, as a |
| commercial OOo-based product is available for money), |
| that is why I was happy to be an organizer of the 2002 |
| OOo-localization marathon, during which a group of 150 |
| people localized all the approx. 21 thousand strings in |
| OOo in just 3 days.<br /> |
| In my work I do mostly web programming and system |
| management, and I work with opensource products |
| day-by-day.</em></td> |
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| <table id="ta1715" name="ta1715" summary="Packaging OOo" |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Packaging |
| OpenOffice.org</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Chris Halls <em>The Debian project</em></td> |
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| <td>This talk gives an introduction to the process of |
| making OpenOffice.org packages. It gives an overview of |
| the existing techniques used to build OOo and integrate |
| it into the operating system. Also, I will introduce |
| some of the important tips, tricks, tools and resources |
| for packages.<br /> |
| The Debian team, and several other distributors, have |
| been providing their own packages of OpenOffice.org for |
| their system. The source is modified to integrate |
| better with the native package management, as well as |
| taking into account constraints put on the packages by |
| the rest of the system, including components with |
| restricted licensing such as the GPC library and the |
| JDK. The methods used to overcome these problems will |
| be covered, as well as the concepts behind the extra |
| features such as language packs, auto user install, |
| language fallbacks and managing three different |
| architectures. There are several tools and resources |
| available for packages, such as various mailing lists, |
| scripts, ccache & distcc, IRC, some Issuezilla |
| queries and web resources such as Ximian's LXR and |
| Tinderbox.<br /> |
| Targeted Audience: People interested in packaging, |
| porting and the installation of OOo, and those |
| developers who are interested in techniques to improve |
| the end user installation experience.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: Chris Halls, is a software |
| developer, living & working in Frankfurt, Germany. |
| He is also a Debian Developer and part of the team that |
| packages OpenOffice.org for the Debian distribution, as |
| well contributing to the tools project. He is 29, |
| married and is British.</em></td> |
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