Embedding OOo and MSOffice in Eclipse (part 2)

Since my last post, I tried to create an Eclipse plugin embedding OOo and MS Office. However I had some surprises: a happy and a bad one.

• The happy surprise: by using Eclipse on a windows machine with MS Office, I discovered that Eclipse already has an editor to open OLE objects. Implemented in the org.eclipse.ui.win32 fragment, it's not directly usable: it belongs to an Eclipse internal package. The only thing it needs is a IEditorInput returning an IFile.

• The bad surprise: to use OpenOffice.org in a plugin, I need to add some OpenOffice.org JARS to the classpath. This is quite tricky to workaround and should be solved with a custom ClassLoader. See the attached links for some ideas on this topic. I still wonder how Ubion get it work in it's plugin...