Platform Evolution

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

Operating Systems

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
- graphite (Rendering for Complex Scripts)
graphics libraries
- cairo
libraries for handling multimedia file formats
- libjpeg
- libpng
- quicktime
- corevideo
- avmedia
libraries for handling external document formats
- XML (Extensible Markup Language) processing
  - libxml2
  - libxslt
  - saxon
  - expat
- 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
- rhino (for JavaScript)
- java
- tomcat (Java Application Server)
- beanshell (Java-like Scripting Language)
other libraries
- coinmp
- lucene (Java-based indexing and search technology)
- apr/apr-util (Apache Portable Runtime)
- Creadur (Release Audit Tool)