Juergen Schmidt created COMDEV-77:
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Summary: [GSoC] Apache OpenOffice Extension Plugin for Eclipse
Key: COMDEV-77
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-77
Project: Community Development
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Juergen Schmidt
Apache OpenOffice is the leading open source desktop office suite. Our most
recent release has had over 40 million downloads.
OpenOffice has a powerful API and extension framework that allows to extend the
office with new features or provide connectors into external applications and
simplify the interoperability between the application and office. Many service
provider interfaces (SPI) are available and allow specific integration into
existing areas. For example you can provide extensions that behaves as normal
build in function in the spreadsheet application. Or you can provide an grammar
checking extensions etc.
A key element here to simplify the development of such extensions is to have a
good tooling. There is already a plugin available for NetBeans [1] that
provides some basic project types and wizards to simplify the setup of a new
project and the ongoing maintenance and development (including deployment and
debugging in the office) of such extension projects.
The idea is to have a similar plugin for Eclipse in place to reach even more
extension developers and give them a powerful tooling to speed up their work
and to help growing the eco-system around OpenOffice. The focus is here on Java
extensions but on demand the support for C++ or Python extension is also
possible.
Project scope and ideas:
1. thinking about a good project structure for an Eclipse extension project
2. evaluating how to package an extension package (oxt), deploy it from Eclipse
into the office and how to remote debug the extension in the office
3. Implement some basic wizards to support specific SPIs (e.g. Calc Add-in,
Add-on, ...) and help to setup a basic project
The OpenOffice SDK provided a code skeleton generator that can be used to
generate necessary code skeletons.
Skills needed:
-- Java programming ("Core Java"), good working knowledge, but don't need to be
a guru or anything
-- open minded to learn something new, the office API and some basic concepts
regarding the underlying component technology
-- open to have fun with one of the biggest open source projects
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