Base To-Do

Below is a list of Base-related projects which could be implemented by interested developers. Most of these projects are relatively self-contained, and do not require too much knowledge about OOo's code infrastructure.

Note that the actual project descriptions are not yet moved to this place here, they still reside one of the project's static pages. Your'e encourage to visit this page, as it contains much more information currently.

(So if you want, one of the To-Dos of our project is to move the To-Dos from http://dba.openoffice.org/development/projects.html to this Wiki page.)

1 Joins in dBase queries
2 SDBC driver for LDAP directories
3 New/Enhanced Form Controls
4 Dialogs with Form Functionality
5 Database driver UI modularization
6 HSQLDB: single-file backend
7 Embed Derby into OpenOffice.org databases
8 SQL Syntax Highlighting
9 HSQLDB: editable views
10 Native, cross-platform access to MS Access databases
11 SDBC driver for vCards
12 New Filter Dialog

Joins in dBase queries

Queries to dBase files can currently contain one table only. Scope of the project is to enhance Base' built-in simple query engine to be capable of executing statements line SELECT table1.field1, table2.field2 FROM table1, table2. The dBase driver, the text/csv driver, and the Spreadsheet driver would all benefit from this extension.

Be prepared to dig around here before starting the project, the project touches low-level core implementations, including some heavy-to-read STL stuff, so be prepared to invest some time before writing the first line of code.

required skills C++, SQL knowledge
useful skills: Lexx and Yacc
Contact: mailto:dev@dba.openoffice.org
effort: 4 weeks for an experienced developer
difficulty: high