Remember my problems to integrate OpenOffice.org Bean in an eclipse plugin ? I just have found a way to solve them (thanks to Bogdan and Romain Guy). The solution is to create a custom ClassLoader. Let us do it together: The ClassLoader The ClassLoader is able to create Class objects from their definition (.class file). We could create a simple OOoClassLoader from the ...

Version 1.0.2 released This new version contains a few changes with the previous one, but will be quite important for users. The OpenOffice.org development plugin for Eclipse took some lessons from my previous experience of UNO and the URE: All the files generated from IDL files are in a build directory The generated UNO-IDL project classpath has ...

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 ...

These days I'm trying to use the OOoBean to use OpenOffice.org in Eclipse windows. A link to the ubion ORS plugin is attached to this article. There are some problems using this plugin, that is: it works very well on KDE and Windows, but I can't make it work on Xfce windowing system. this seems to be due to some Gtk issues... I have to investigate a bit more on this ...