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The Developer's Guide
should be used as the main documentation to give developers and solution
providers the necessary means to use OpenOffice.org 2.2 as componentware,
using it in their own projects and extending it according to their
needs.
The guide gives an introduction to the main concepts of the OpenOffice.org 2.2
API and to UNO, the underlying component technology of OpenOffice.org 2.2.
All different application areas are discussed in a separate chapter.
Each chapter describes the fundamental APIs for this application area,
and it gives the necessary background information about how the generic
APIs have to be used in this context. The APIs and the concepts are
explained in detail and a working example is available in the
'DevelopersGuide' example section.
The main target language for most of the examples is Java. However, for
some chapters, where the focus is on a special target language, the
examples are in that language (e.g. C++, OpenOffice.org 2.2 Basic).
The guide is available in two versions: a
XHTML version that contains
cross references directly into the UNO IDL reference documentation, and
the PDF file version.
One short comment on the history of this guide. The OpenOffice.org
core developers have collected detailed knowledge about UNO and the
OpenOffice.org API. Sun Microsystems has commissioned two independent
software developers and authors to write the Developer's Guide based on
this material.
Through this documentation initiative, Sun Microsystems emphasizes its
commitment to OpenOffice.org. Sun hopes to promote the adoption of
OpenOffice.org for custom solutions and tries to broaden the market both
for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice.
The guide has been written by OpenOffice.org 2.2 itself and was later converted
to PDF and XHTML.The XHTML conversion especially shows the flexibility
of the XML based file format of OpenOffice.org 2.2. It was made by an XSL
transformation without a running office based directly on the documents.
This XSL transformation is also
available on OpenOffice.org. The integration with the reference
documentation was done by the documentation tool and a Perl script which
collects and provides the necessary information for the documentation
tool.
Developer's Guide chapter quick-links:
- Reader's guide
- First Steps
- Professional UNO
- Writing UNO Components
- Advanced UNO
- Office Development
- Text Documents
- Spreadsheet Documents
- Drawing Documents and Presentation Documents
- Charts
- OpenOffice.org 2.2 Basic and Dialogs
- Database Access
- Forms
- Universal Content Broker
- Configuration Management
- Office Bean
- Accessibility
- Scripting Framework
- Appendix A: OpenOffice.org 2.2 API-Design-Guidelines
- Appendix B: IDL Documentation Guidelines
- Appendix C: Universal Content Providers
- Appendix D: UNOIDL Syntax Specification
- Glossary
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