Hi As is documented in our development guide ( https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Component_Context), OpenOffice has 2 APIs for factories for creating components, the older service manager (XMultiServiceFactory) and the newer component context (XComponentContext and its XMultiComponentFactory).
Most OpenOffice code (possibly as much as 73%) still uses the older service manager API, which is undesirable as it breaks context propagation. I tried to convert some components to use the component context API instead of service manager. It went well. The component context related helper functions like ::cppu::component_getFactoryHelper() are simpler and easier to use than the long manual implementation of component_getFactory() functions. I also noticed another unexpected benefit: the new way made the components slightly smaller :-) main/fileacc: libfileacc.so 101576 -> 100384 (1192 bytes / 1.17% smaller). main/linguistic: liblng.so 776088 -> 774792 (1296 bytes / 0.17% smaller). main/unotools: libutl.so 1741992 -> 1741544 (448 bytes / 0.026% smaller). I've pushed my changes into trunk in these commits: b823e66d3f46b17ae64960345c492805b7c32775 cc5439b6c91921c2f20d49d36a9f2cf6bb387039 b823e66d3f46b17ae64960345c492805b7c32775 I plan to continue this over time. Others are welcome to join in. Regards Damjan
