On Thu, 30 May 2002, Neil Parker wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Larry Price wrote: > >On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ben Huot wrote: > >> What are the linitations of installing Open Office without JAVA. They are > >> really vague at openoffice.org. > >given that Openoffice and StarOffice are both written in Java, it would be > >rather difficult to install either without Java, unless you are willing to > >get deep into GJC (Gnu Java Compiler) and cross-compiling from another > >box. > > Aargh. This will probably be futile, but I have to try to debunk this > strangely common myth. > > STAR OFFICE IS NOT WRITTEN IN JAVA! > > Examination of the Star Office 5.2 executables and libraries seems to > imply that most of it was written in C++, and that the Linux version was > compiled with gcc 2.95.2 and egcs 2.91.66. (I suppose it's possible that > it was written in Java and compiled with GJC, but I think it's unlikely-- > the symbol tables are full of things Java doesn't have, like templates and > class destructors.) > > But whatever the language and compiler, I can report that it installs and > runs just fine on machines without Java. > > If Java is available, you get a few extras: the ability to run Java > applets (of course), and Javascript, and PGP. > > - Neil Parker, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I believe it might have been the SUN spin on things that gives so many people the idea that it's written in Java.
OpenOffice certainly looks like it will make the next geneeration of office drones a fairly relaxed and secure lot. If your *Office documents came with a signed distributed trust metric would they be more or less valuable? In other words if every document you produced was verifiably traceable to you, and carried a hyperlink to public opinion about you would such documents be more or less financially and legally significant. Something to think about. http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
