Dear OpenOffice.org and UNO friends,
I am pleased to announce that a sponsor, who is preferring to stay
anonymous, is supporting us to do the next step in modulizing the
OpenOffice.org office suite and to make its component model available
independently. That means, that we are going to factor out the highly
requested
Universal Network Objects (UNO)
into its own
Uno Runtime Environment (URE)
The URE allows the usage of UNO independently of the OpenOffice.org
productivity suite. UNO is OpenOffice.orgs underlying component model,
allowing language agnostic and remote transparent development of
add-ins, components and applications.
As UNO has already been designed with independence in mind, the URE is
mainly about bundling the appropriate libraries, executables etc. into
their own package. Please have a look at the URE proposal at
http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/draft/standalone_uno_1_0.html
respectively the UNO homepage at
http://udk.openoffice.org
for details. The URE is planned to be released with OOo 2.0. As OOo 2.0
is already advanced in its development, the plan is to adapt OOo to the
URE with its next major (see
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=50467) release.
XPCom, Bonobo and Mono fans might want to give UNO a try and see if we
can/want to bridge from one component model to another, to reach higher
overall interoperability.
Distro packagers might want to provide the URE (and the OOo SDK) with
their distro, not only as a prerequisite for past OOo 2.0 releases but
to enable people to develop UNO components.
Porters might want to port the URE, which is mainly a packaging task, to
their favorite platform.
Please send feedback to dev@udk.openoffice.org, respectively to Stephan
Bergmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED], UDK co-lead) or Kay Ramme
([EMAIL PROTECTED], UDK lead).
Kay
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