Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2012 um 19:57 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > I don't want to discourage you, but there is need to look at the > practical issues around rehosting the OpenOffice code base. > > Help us to understand your perspective better: > > 1. Why do you care what Apache OpenOffice is written in? Is there a > direct personal concern or is this some general consideration? In > what way are you impacted personally? As an user? As a contributor > or developer? > > 2. Are you interested in participating in such a development? Are > you already familiar with the OpenOffice implementation? How could > you contribute to such a migration? This is an open-source project > and availability of capable and willing contributors is decisive. > Most of all, how do you expect the hundreds of contributors who are > already at work in aspects of this extensive, long-lived product to > switch their attention to a different approach? > > 3. Are you aware that the tendency is to remove Java dependencies > from OpenOffice? I don't know the reasoning, but it is happening. > >
really, I don't see it at AOO at the moment. I still recommend Java for extensions because it's much easier to develop and to maintain on all platforms. Juergen > The source code package for the latest release of Apache OpenOffice > 3.4 (incubating) is over one gigabyte. Changing the platform would > represent a tremendous disruption in the development. How long are > you willing to wait for there to ever be another stable version > hosted on some VM model instead of built for the variety of native > platforms that are now served? > > - Dennis > > PS: You might explore the current Java-based viewers for some > calibration and a place where proof-of-concept work might be > carried out. There needs to be a way to surface the unknowns > and calibrate such an effort. It is also possible to undertake > such a project completely independently from Apache OpenOffice. > That is a beauty of open-source work that allows this to be done > without expecting that one project be required to be all things > to all people. > > -----Original Message----- > From: suhail ansari [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 09:41 > To: [email protected] > Subject: OpenOffice in Java > > As far as I know the only modern platform that doesn't support Java is iOS. > 99% platform support Java. Java is the second most popular plugin after > flash. Flash is being phased out and HTML5 is used these days. One major > reason to rewrite OpenOffice in Java because Java support many languages > (Scala, Jython, JRuby). JavaFX is moder UI framework for Java that also > support HTML5. It will be easier to support a Java based OpenOffice due to > Java's cross platform nature. > >
