Now the OpenOffice.org conferences 2006 are closed and the normal life has taken its old rythm now. This article is only about to thank you all for making this year's conferences a big event, quite like a family one. Being prepared during several month by many persons on both OpenOffice.org and INSA Lyon side, my first thanks are coming to all those who helped us making it possible: Sophie, ...

Uno IDL is the component specification language of OpenOffice.org. Here is a solution to show some highlighted Uno IDL code. It uses GeSHi and you need to add a language file describing how to parse and colorize you Uno IDL code. As this language file doesn't exist I created one, attached to this article.

A new release is available on the usual update site. http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/ooeclipseintegration/ It mainly contains fixes for windows version as some code cleaning. This version warns the user that white spaces in the SDK or project paths may lead to problems of builds. This problem is due to some bugs of the idlc compiler and will be fixed in a future release of the ...

This blog post will be about sharing what I learned around developping Funambol Connector. It is not intended to be complete or a replacement of any Funambol tutorial. However, I'll try to give some tips here to better understand. Basic documentation First things firsts, before anything else, you should have a serious look at the Funambol module development tutorial. ...

I'm proud to announce you that the Apogée synchronization is now working. It integrates the Funambol j2se client API and configures it for you through preferences and properties pages. Split into three plugins, the synchronization allows you to write your own source connector. For the moment, Apogée can now synchronize Jackrabbit local repositories, but this can be extended. A ...

I'm glad to announce that 1.0.3 release of the OOoEclipseIntegration plugin is out. Here are the changes: Basic URE support User documentation Developer documentation: Javadoc API completed and “howto extend” tutorial Moving the language specific code into a new plugin Ant scripts to automate the update site build Internal model ...

As I had some problems to find build howtos to build Funambol last week, I gathered the information people gave me on the Sync4J mailing list in to an article. Follow these instructions to build the Funambol 3.0 bundle for Unix or Linux. Gathering the dependencies In order to build the Funambol bundle, you will need several other softwares or components. There are listed ...

After a long time working on the JCR connector for Funambol, I finally created a first release for pioneers. As every very first release there are some important limits which are described further in the provided links. For downloads and documentation of the JCR connector, you can report to the attached links. The final word here is: "stay tuned..."

I'm happy to anounce that the JCR connector can now return all the items or just the added or updated items. Deleted items are more difficult to check: thus their support is delayed. What the JCR Repository needs In order for the synchronization source to work, the JCR Repository will have to respect some constraints. They are described here: The repository has to ...

In order to setup a test framework for the Funambol JCR connector, I had to setup a JCR repository server. This blog entry, will guide you to set up the test tools. To do this you need: to install and configure a tomcat server (I used the 5.5 version) to deploy the provided jackrabbit-server (see link below) to setup the jackrabbit-server servlet in order to use RMI ...