CommunityOne 2008 : OpenOffice - the MacOS X version and How To Build Extensions
posted Tuesday, 6 May 2008
 | Many interesting things happened today that I found really interesting - let me start by saying that both CommunityOne and JavaOne are information- rich. It doesn't matter which way you turn - you will find that a new topic | or one you thought you knew that has been updated or some aspect that is surprising and worth paying attention to. I should mention that there were many today and it will take awhile to write about them. One I found is interesting was OpenOffice. Couple of things to get out of the way first, OpenOffice has an interesting developer snapshot if |
you are using MacOS X. You can see the OpenOffice splash-screen at right (select it to see more). You can get it by| going to the download part of OpenOffice and downloading the MacOSXIntel_Aqua version. I haven't looked at it in a long time but one of the OpenOffice engineers (Jurgen Schmidt) spent a good deal of time showing me some features. It looks excellent. Mind you it is still a developer release. Now comes the really cool part. There will be a Hands-On Lab for OpenOffice that focuses on how to extend it. If you missed it - you can write an extension in Java (or PHP or ...) and there are some nice NetBeans plugins that greatly help. At this year's JavaOne conference - there will be some nice tutorials that show you how to build extensions. Okay, so here comes part three. There are a bunch of extensions already | 
Select to see OpenOffice.org for MacOS |
to OpenOffice here. These vary in what they do but should offer some useful extensions. I will be at the Lab-9410, Hands-On-Lab for OpenOffice.org Extensions with NetBeans, at JavaOne (it's on Friday around 1:30 pm) helping with it. More tomorrow on Amazon and OpenSolaris and the JavaOne 2008 startup with the General session. |
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