ODF Toolkit Announced 71
Sweetshark writes "IBM and Sun joined at the 2008 OpenOffice.org conference in Beijing to announce the ODF Toolkit Union. The ODF Toolkit project will be independent of the development at OpenOffice.org, and will operate under the liberal Apache license. It goes from small tools that simplify using ODF in the software development process to large ODF Java and .NET libraries that can be used within other projects. 'The future of accessing and distributing software is here today,' said Michael Bemmer, senior director of Collaboration Engineering at Sun. 'It is no longer an acceptable business practice to have silos of office document data stored in proprietary formats. The industry has moved forward and is replacing the silos with business content, such as on-premise business applications, software solutions offered over the Internet and applications supported by mobile devices that are critical in Service Oriented Architectures.' Will this help ODF to make inroads in the business world after the successes on the desktops of users at home?"
Re:QOTD! (Score:4, Informative)
Jars are just zip files, they are completely documented, as the java class structure. Multiple JVM implementations exist. I'm unsure what your point is.
what the heck are you talking about (Score:3, Informative)
Comparing ODF to Word is like comparing HTML to IE. A data format is not the same thing as a program! Sheesh!
If you want ODF and Word, try here [sun.com] (works for me) or maybe here [sourceforge.net] (haven't tried that one).
Re:So does this mean... (Score:3, Informative)
you can already do this - I made a perl script that took the contents of a web - form, inserted it into a .doc form (converted to odf) and then printed it as PDF and emailed the PDF file to the powers that be.
yeah, so there are already perl modules to do what this toolkit is about. no surprise there!
Re:Beating Word will be hard (Score:4, Informative)
Erm I've *never* had a problem with OOo reading doc formats (or even ppt and xls).
Apparently there are the occasional glitch when saving complex documents in Microsoft's format, but I havent seen any.
Re:Use JOpenDocument or ApachePOI (Score:3, Informative)
I see. You're waiting for an official, branded 'ODF Toolkit'(tm). Sorry, no, but OpenOffice::OODoc is not part of that. I sincerely hope that is not what is stopping you from using it.
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