Hi-ya, I am having a bit of a nightmare integrating OpenOffice and any help would be great.
Here is the scenario: I have an eclipse rcp app which uses Plugin A - my OpenOffice handling code and PlugIn B - My User Interface code which uses the Swt Bridge, Plugin C - My OpenOffice "Lib" ie all the classes and dll's, and other files openoffice needs. I need to access the Plugin C from my app, without using the the java.library.path property. OpenOffice seems to rely heavily on the java.library.path property, but when I set it at runtime it doesn't seem to make any difference. This whole thing only seems to work when the OpenOffice "Lib" is in a subdirectory of PlugIn A. OpenOffice looks for the local library (Windows: officebean.dll, Unix: libofficebean.so) relative to the officebean.jar in the <OfficePath>/program directory. OpenOffice has some special class loading, which I can't get to work with Eclipse across multiple plugins. Does anyone have any pointers how I can this to work? many thanks. Sorry to be so verbose, however I can't find much info about this. But I found someone who had what sounded like a similiar problem with a OpenOffice and Java Web Start (JNLP) Integration. I have copied it below: Working around this constraint, I created a custom ClassLoader (subclassing the java.net.URLClassLoader) which will load all the JARs in the classes folder (hard code the directory for now). Should work, won't it? But no. Java Web Start uses a specialised com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader, which does not bother about the system classloader. This is to say that by loading all the JARs via my custom ClassLoader does not trigger JNLP's ClassLoader to pick them up. The result - ClassNotFoundException. My next venture is to explicitly set the java.ext.dirs property via the JNLP file, pointing it to the classes folder and hoping the system class loaders will automatically load all the JARs in it. Don't get me wrong, as this approach works for a stand-alone GUI application, but when run via Web Start, we now get a different result - NoClassDefFoundException. In a desperate experiment, I tried to force the system classloader to load these JARs, by force introspection, using the URLClassLoader's addURL(URL) method. Since this method is private, I had to use the reflection API to invoke the method. Improvement here, as the classes were finally picked up by JNLP, but then comes a strage error - InvokationMethodException, with a strange error message - This cannot happen. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
