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| <h1>Background of XMerge<br> |
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| <p>Xmerge came out of project Starlite. The goal of Starlite was to |
| provide mobility to StarOffice documents. The Starlite |
| team developed |
| spreadsheet and document viewer applications with limited editing |
| capabilities for PalmOS. These applications were designed to |
| synchronize with the StarWriter and StarCalc applications on the |
| desktop. <br> |
| </p> |
| <p>Project ZenSync was the second phase of project Starlite to expand |
| the |
| synchronization capabilities to work with an expanded set of |
| small-device applications. </p> |
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| style="background-color: rgb(0, 49, 90); text-align: center; width: 150px;"><font |
| color="#ffffff" face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><b>StarLite Team<br> |
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| <th bgcolor="#99ccff" align="center" style="width: 150px;"><font |
| color="#00315a" face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><b> Name</b></font><br> |
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| face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><b>Function</b></font></th> |
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| style="width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Akhil Arora</td> |
| <td valign="top" style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Tech |
| Lead<br> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Eileen |
| Bugee</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Visual |
| designer</td> |
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| <td valign="top" |
| style="width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Eric |
| Bergman</td> |
| <td valign="top" style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Human |
| factors design</td> |
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| style="width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">David |
| Proulx</td> |
| <td valign="top" style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">StarWriter |
| for PalmOS</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Herbie |
| Ong</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Converters |
| for StarWriter</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Paul |
| Rank<br> |
| </td> |
| <td |
| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">StarCalc |
| for PalmOS</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Raju |
| Pallath<br> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Quality</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Stephen |
| Mak<br> |
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| <td |
| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Converters |
| for StarCalc</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Denis |
| Sharypov<br> |
| </td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">StarCalc |
| for PalmOS<br> |
| </td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Maline |
| Minasandram<br> |
| </td> |
| <td |
| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Manager<br> |
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| At this point the project was transfered to Dublin, Ireland. The first |
| step was to refactor the code so that filters could be written not just |
| for palm devices but any device. This included writing a registry for |
| xmerge so that it could keep track of which filters were included and |
| what formats they could convert to/from. Next, filters for Pocket Excel |
| and Pocket Word were written. Once this was completed an Active Sync |
| conduit was written so that XMerge could be used to convert Pocket PC |
| files on a handheld to StarOffice files on a PC automatically through |
| ActiveSync. The decision was then taken to open source the project and |
| make it available on OpenOffice. This involved hosting the code on |
| OpenOffice CVS, adding the web pages and writing the documentation for |
| filter writers. Once hosted on the website a FlatXML and DocBook filter |
| were added. The final step in the project was to include XMerge in |
| StarOffice. <br> |
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| size="2"><b>XMerge Team<br> |
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| <th bgcolor="#99ccff" align="center" style="width: 150px;"><font |
| color="#00315a" face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><b> Name</b></font><br> |
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| face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><b>Function</b></font></th> |
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| style="width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Brian |
| Cameron<br> |
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| <td valign="top" style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Tech |
| Lead<br> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Aidan |
| Butler<br> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">FlatXML |
| & Docbook filter, Integration into StarOffice</td> |
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| style="width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Mike Hayes<br> |
| </td> |
| <td valign="top" style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Code |
| design work, Code refactoring, Pocket Excel filter</td> |
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| style="width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Darren |
| Kenny<br> |
| </td> |
| <td valign="top" style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Code |
| design work, OpenOffice web hosting</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Martin |
| Maher<br> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Pocket |
| Excel filter, Code refactoring</td> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Mark |
| Murnane<br> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Pocket |
| Word filter, ActiveSync, Integration into StarOffice</td> |
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| Cleere<br> |
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| style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Manager<br> |
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| <td>This page contains a list of oppurtunities for speed optimizations for |
| the XML filters. Additionally, the current status of our optimization |
| efforts is listed <a href="current_optimization_status.html"> |
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