OUT NOW!! - The first public version of ODFDOM..

I am pleased to announce that the first public version of ODFDOM is now available for download.

ODFDOM is the new opensource (LGPLv3), multi-layered, lightweight, OpenDocument centric API with a Java 5 reference implementation.

For a quick review we offer you an online JavaDoc documentation and the wiki. For deeper analysis we have uploaded several packages:

The zipped JavaDoc API
The JAR of the reference Java 5 implementation
The zipped NetBeans package containing the sources of ODFDOM v0.6.

The version number 0.6 was chosen as we believe that although there is still some work towards a full version, already more than half of the way towards it was managed.

Even with its 0.6 version, ODFDOM is more than a successful prototype, which tests new concepts like the typed DOM code generation from the RelaxNG schema of OpenDocument 1.1. Moreover it is the living successor of AODL and Odf4j, co-evolved from their creators and already matured by countless development cycles within more than a year development within Sun.

Therefore there is nothing left for me to say, as that I hope you will join us in evolving the API to a full version!

Please enjoy the API...
Svante

tags: api architecture code development netbeans odf opendocument software specification sun xml

Comments

Alexandro Colorado said:

This remind me of the paper writtten by Rob Weir, however I really wish we can have an implementation on C. a libodf.so at a Linux system level will make ODF ubiquos on the Linux/Unix OSes. Making it a viable format to read (from less) or be recognized by the basic toolkits.

This is what KDE guys did moving libODF on their Qt implementation from Koffice to the base KDE making ODF read/view across the desktop environment.

Posted by Alexandro Colorado on May 11, 2008 at 02:28 PM CEST #