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Juergen Schmidt kicks off the morning talking about writing Openoffice.org Extensions with NetBeans. (Well actually the Motorola CTO did with another content free keynote, but I choose to ignore that.) This is the smallest session I've been in so far, only room for a couple of hundred people and the room's not nearly full. Frankly this is a relief after all the megasessions I've attended so far. He starts by demoing writing a function in Java for use in the spreadsheet app using a NetBeans wizard. (Side note: OpenOffice Calc opens three sheets in new documents by default just like Excel even though 99%+ of documents only use one. Does it really have to copy Excels' mistakes? Remind me to file a bug report on this.) OpenOffice has its own cross-language component model. The API is defined in UNOIDL. (Didn't DOPM teach us this was a bad idea?) More...
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