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==Introduction of the code base==
 
==Introduction of the code base==
  

Revision as of 06:35, 5 June 2012

IBM announced plan to contribute Symphony code to Apache Software Foundation on July 15, 2011. Now the code is ready for verify.

This page is special for the code contribution effort.

Introduction of the code base

Symphony is quite like OpenOffice with an Java Wrapper. The code contribution doesn't include the Java wrapper which is based on Eclipse. So if you try with the binary build provided below, you will see the property sidebar, but not the MDI view in Symphony.

Where to get the source code

You can get the code temporarily from

https://svn-master.apache.org/repos/test/danielsh/symphony-import/

Finally the code will be available at: (Not ready yet)

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/symphony/trunk

IMPORTANT:
You still need get some extra source modules from AOO3.4 to make the code base buildable, which includes main/ext_libraries, main/ext_sources. And icu 4.8.1 source can be download from http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.8.1/icu4c-4_8_1-src.tgz, then change it's name to af36f635271a239d76d038d6cf8da8df-icu4c-4_8_1-src.tgz and put it in main/ext_sources directory.

Build guide

Please follow this guide to build Symphony's source code.

The binary build

You can build this out yourself by following the build guide. You can also get it from link below.

Please notice that if you have Apache OpenOffice.org 3.4 installed already, you need uninstall it first. Or you can install it parallel to Apache OpenOffice 3.4 by following guide

Feature Description

FAQ

Q: What is the difference between this build and Symphony?

A: Since the java part of Symphony is not contributed. Feature, like MDI, Home page and Embedded browser in Symphony won't be available in this build. And menu, toolbar, statusbar also have different look&feel from that in Symphony.

The Mail Merge panel in Symhony is implented in Java. It is also updated with related part in OO.o3.x.

Symphony help is based on Eclipse help mechanism. In the build, help content of OO.o 3.3 is used. But Symphony help content is avilable in source code package.


Q: Does this contain everything we get in AOO 3.4? Or what is the difference.

A: This is not based on AOO 3.4. Symphony 3.0 was developed based on OO.o3.1. And while it goes some improvments from AOO 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4beta were also integrated. Before it was contributed to ASF, most of changes from AOO 3.4 were also integrated.

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