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The move from OpenOffice To LibreOffice
After Sun Inc had been acquired by Oracle ; and because of some clashes between Sun’s open source projects communities and the -somewhat unfriendly- Oracle attitude towards Sun’s open source projects; OpenOffice has been forked to LibreOffice. This Effort is being Led by document foundation probably with joint efforts to come from major Linux companies Like Novel ,Ubuntu and RedHat .
For Java OpenOffice API developers , the move to Libreoffice should be straightforward. just follow these simple steps:
1- Get netbeans IDE 6.8 and then install plugin “OpenOffice API Plugin” from netbeans IDE plugins dialog.
2- Downlaod and Install Libreoffice and Libreoffice SDK.
3-In Netbeans IDE select “Tools->Options->Miscellaneous”. select Tab “OOo API Plugin”. then in fields “Openoffice.org installation” and “Openoffice.org SDK installation” browse to the folder where you installed Libreoffice and libreoffice SDK respectively as described in image below:
That’s it ! you can now start doing Java Libreoffice API development using the netbeans OpenOffice API plugin.
