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The OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit Project

Lead: Dieter Loeschky
Co-Leads: Juergen Schmidt, Michael Brauer

The scope of the ODF Toolkit project is:

  1. To improve the ability to use OpenOffice.org as a programming framework for creating and processing OpenDocument (ODF) documents rather than to use it as a desktop application. This will be achieved by transforming an appropriate subset from the OpenOffice.org source code basis, and by adapting it to the new purpose.

  2. To provide a home for components that can be used for processing ODF documents and that are either based on the new ODF Toolkit, or complement it.

Both together constitutes the ODF Toolkit, which is a toolkit for ODF document creation and processing. This toolkit shares its source code with the OpenOffice.org desktop application where ever this is reasonable. That is, based on the OpenOffice.org source code, there is the OpenOffice.org suite, and an ODF Toolkit, which is tailored to processing ODF documents outside traditional office desktop applications.

Developers interested in moving beyond office suite functionality to areas that express files as ODF, however "beyond" is imagined, are invited to join. We envision this project as giving all a hint of the potential of OpenOffice.org source and ODF.

Please join our discussion by subscribing to the dev@odftoolkit list. Just send an empty message to dev-subscribe@odftoolkit.openoffice.org. Suggestions and feedback are welcome.

For more information, please follow the links below.

Background Information

Detailed ODF Toolkit Proposal

Transition Steps

Case Studies

Design Aspects

White Paper

ODF Toolkit Wiki - the place for dynamic collaboration work