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
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 #