Milestone 1 reached

I just have finished to develop a plugin integrating OpenOffice.org 2.0 in Eclipse using the office bean. The plugin sources are available on nuxeo SVN public repository (see the attached link) and you can already use it. This plugin adds an editor for OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw files for both 1.1.x and 2.0 versions.

I could develop this plugin thanks to Haris Peco article, and Bogdan help on ClassLoaders. This plugin is delivered with an Ant build.xml file to generate an update site for the plugin. Users could be able to install the plugin through this simple Eclipse mechanism after having generated the update site archive or by using an HTTP update site (still has to be created).

For other technical informations, you can report to the plugin README or my previous articles on ClassLoaders. A small screenshot has been joint for your eyes.

What's next ?

• Adding extensions for formulas and master documents
• Adding wizards to easily create new OpenOffice.org files. This will be integrated to Apogee.
• Correct an OpenOffice.org Bean bug: there is no way to terminate OpenOffice.org from the bean (issue #60473)
• Listen to the document changes to add the '*' in the editor's name