Difference between revisions of "Platform Evolution"

Revision as of 08:43, 10 July 2013

OpenOffice has many dependencies on external technologies. If these external dependencies change then OpenOffice needs to adapt.

Operating Systems

• Windows
• Mac OSX
• Linux / FreeBSD
• Solaris
• OS/2

Programming Languages

• C++
• Java
• Perl
• Python
• JavaScript
• Visual Basic

Libraries

• standard template library
• boost
• libraries for supporting security features
  • nss (Network Security Services)
  • openssl (Secure Socket and Transport Layer)
  • xmlsec (XML Security Library)
• libraries for supporting internationalization
  • ICU (International Components for Unicode)
  • hunspell (Spell Checker)
  • hyphen (Hyphenation)
  • mythes (Thesaurus)
  • graphite (Rendering for Complex Scripts)
• graphics libraries
  • cairo
  • vigra (Vision with Generic Algorithms)
• libraries for handling multimedia file formats
  • libjpeg
  • libpng
  • quicktime
  • corevideo
  • avmedia
• libraries for handling external document formats
  • XML (Extensible Markup Language) processing
    • libxml2 (XML Parser and Toolkit)
    • libxslt (XSL Transformation)
    • saxon (XSLT and XQuery Processor)
    • expat (XML Parser Library)
    • xsltml (XSLT Math Library)
  • RDF (Resource Description Framework) support
    • redland (General RDF support)
    • raptor (RDF Parser Toolkit)
    • rasqal (RDF Query Processor)
• libraries for connectivity
  • libcurl (Multi-Protocol File Transfers)
  • serf (Asynchronous HTTP Client)
  • hsqldb (HyperSQL Java DataBase)
  • seamonkey (for Address Book support)
• libraries for supporting different extension programming languages
  • python (Python Language)
  • rhino (for JavaScript)
  • java (Java Language)
  • tomcat (Java Application Server)
  • beanshell (Java-like Scripting Language)
• other libraries
  • zlib (Compression Library)
  • coinmp (Operations Research Solver)
  • lucene (Java-based indexing and search technology)
  • apr/apr-util (Apache Portable Runtime)
  • ucpp (Source Preprocessor)
  • Creadur (Release Audit Tool)

Standards

• the OpenDocument standard
• the XML standard
• the HTML standards
• Microsoft binary document formats
• Microsoft XML document formats
• Unicode
• OpenType
• Security standards
• Scalable Vector Graphics
• Structured Query Language
• PostScript language
• PDF format
• JPEG graphics
• PNG graphics
• GIF graphics