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| <H1>Glossary</H1> |
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| Term |
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| Definition |
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| API |
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| Application Programming Interface. |
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| AWT |
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| Abstract Window Toolkit. |
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| CDF |
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| Channel Definition Format. |
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| CHAOS |
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| Common Hierarchical Access |
| Object System. This is now known as UCB (Universal Content |
| Broker). |
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| compatible modification |
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| A modification where the modified files are compatible in a |
| binary sense. The updated files do not require complete recompilation. |
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| CVS |
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| Concurrent Version System, the source control system that |
| the OpenOffice.org project uses. |
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| CVS module |
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| <I>See</I> module. |
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| DDE |
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| Dynamic Data Exchange |
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| dependency |
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| When a module must be built before another module is built, |
| a dependency exists between the two modules. For example, the |
| <CODE>offmgr</CODE> module must be built before |
| the <CODE>sw</CODE> module, so <CODE>sw</CODE> |
| <EM>depends</EM> on <CODE>offmgr</CODE>. |
| <P>The dependencies between modules mean that the build must |
| run in a particular order. |
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| FontMetrics |
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| A Java class that defines a font metrics object, which |
| contains information about the rendering of a particular font |
| on a particular screen. |
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| full build |
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| This is a full build of StarOffice, respecting the |
| dependencies between modules. |
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| <P>A weekly build of StarOffice. Release Engineering in Sun |
| uses powerful hardware to build StarOffice and perform a full |
| build once a week. Each module delivers shared headers, shared |
| libraries, and binaries to a collection directory called |
| <CODE>solver</CODE>, under the root |
| directory. When the full build is complete, Release |
| Engineering makes the latest <CODE>solver</CODE> |
| available to all developers as a tarball.</P> |
| <P>Each week the source code is tagged with a new build |
| number, incremented by one from the previous number.</P> |
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| IDL |
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| Interface Definition Language. |
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| incompatible modification |
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| A modification that is not compatible, in a binary sense, |
| with the last full build. The updated files require a |
| complete recompilation. |
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| JNI |
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| Java Native Invocation. |
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| milestone build |
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| A regular build of the office suite. This build is assigned a |
| milestone number, and it is uploaded to the |
| <a href="/download/index.html">Downloading Stable Build/Source</a> page. |
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| MIME |
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| Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. |
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| minor update |
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| An update where complete recompilation is not required, but where |
| all sources and output are copied into a separate workspace. |
| These workspaces are identified with the characters a-z. |
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| module |
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| An application, function, or simply a summary of classes. A |
| module builds a particular component of the office suite. |
| For example, the <CODE>sw</CODE> module builds |
| the Word Processing application. |
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| <P>A module is the smallest unit that you can build.</P> |
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| output tree |
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| This is a directory structure that the build process |
| populates with all the files necessary to build. |
| The output tree is <CODE>solver</CODE>. |
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| PCL |
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| Printer Control Language. A document description language |
| used by Hewlett-Packard Laserjet printers. |
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| platform |
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| A combination of a hardware architecture, a compiler, and an operating |
| system. |
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| project |
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| A logical grouping of modules. For example, the |
| XML Office project includes the <CODE>xmloff</CODE> |
| and <CODE>sax</CODE> modules. |
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| repository |
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| The location where CVS stores its work files. |
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| respin build |
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| This is a build that ignores the dependencies between |
| modules. Ignoring dependencies allows you to, for example, |
| modify a base library header file without needing to perform a |
| full build. <I>See also</I> compatible modification. |
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| SAL |
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| System Abstraction Layer. |
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| SAX |
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| Simple API for XML. |
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| <CODE>solver</CODE> milestone build |
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| <I>See</I> milestone build. |
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| source tree |
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| This is a directory structure that stores all of the source |
| code for the OpenOffice.org project. |
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| STL |
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| Standard Template Library. |
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| stub |
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| A module file that has no function other than to replace |
| functionality that cannot be provided by the OpenOffice.org project. For |
| example, the <CODE>xprinter_stub</CODE> module is |
| a stub for the XPrinter functions that are not open source. |
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| top-level update |
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| All the source is checked out by its top-level revision and |
| then built. This build is always an incompatible build. |
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| UCB |
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| Universal Content Broker. This was formerly known as the |
| Common Hierarchical Access Object System (CHAOS). |
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| UDK |
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| UNO Developer Kit. |
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| UNO |
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| Universal Network Objects. |
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| VCL |
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| Visual Class Library. |
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| VOS |
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| Virtual Operating System. |
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| workspace |
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| The area where all sources are available for building a |
| project is called workspace. |
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| XML |
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| Extensible Markup Language. |
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