Extensions development

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Developing extensions is an efficient way to bring value to OpenOffice.org without diving into core sources. Obviously all developers willing to develop at OpenOffice.org sources level are welcomed.

OpenOffice.org enables third party tools creation through UNO bridges, allowing using many languages.

The principle is to create UNO packages that can be listed in the OpenOffice.org Extensions repository and installed by end-users easily.

This section wants to give newcomers as well as experienced developers some hints to develop Extensions in their desired languages and provide them with tools and frameworks that ease and homogenize the development.

Finally, popular Extensions may be integrated into OpenOffice.org so it is important to follow common policies from beginning to ease this merging.

Starting in a language

Addons can be written in various languages. Each section is here to give starting informations that let you create your addons. Each section is dedicated to a language. It deals with specific points concerning the Extensions aspect. Resources regarding the OpenOffice.org API can be found on the API project and UNO bridges languages issues on the UDK project

The translations of these pages are welcomed and guidelines are available.

• Starting in Python
• Starting in Basic
• Starting in Java
• Starting in C++
• Non programmatic Extensions
• Extensions packaging
• Extensions Integration into Installation Set

Tools & Frameworks

• Code snippets available in many languages
• Code snippets in the Wiki
• Translation framework
• Extensions Packager
• Predefined wizards
• Introspection Tools: discover the API
• OpenOffice.org Eclipse Integration - OpenOffice.org development with Eclipse
• OpenOffice.org NetBeans Integration - plug-in for NetBeans providing some nice features to simplify the development with and for OpenOffice.org (highlevel wizards, UNOIDL and xcu syntax highlighting, code completion, integrated API reference, ...)
• Extension Development with IntelliJ IDEA: simple introduction how you can use the IntelliJ IDEA to develop OpenOffice.org extensions.
• OpenOffice.org Maven 2 integration - Maven plugin to build OpenOffice.org extensions.

Best Practices

• How to write OO.o GUI Extensions today

Project: Enhancing the Extensions Infrastructure of OpenOffice.org

• Project Proposal (agreed by the Community June 2006)
• Project Status

Improving the Extension Manager

• Feature ideas