[Libreoffice] Deleting Java from Base

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Not necessarily. If there is a dev whose willing to do a port of said 
filters I would say have fun. I think porting the filters would be a 
great asset to this project as well as many other office related open 
source projects.

On 12/6/10 6:50 AM, David Tardon wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:40:07PM +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan, *,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
>> <eagles051387 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> i was talking to kendy this morning on irc and i was told that java is
>>> eventually going to be phased out its a matter of porting the code from java
>>> to c++. What i would be flustered with is where to begin in my honest
>>> opinion
>> Start with stuff that /any/ user would see.
>> My list would start with:
>> Fulltext search in Help (i.e.<F1>) - that uses lucene and requires java
>>
>> After that, the wizards (Fax, Letter, ... wizards/autopilots)
>>
>> Then the xslt based filters (that are using saxxon)
>>
> As I mentioned elsewhere, some of the filters (at least the Microsoft
> Office 2003 ones) use XSLT 2.0 and saxon is AFAIK the only available
> XSLT processor that can process it. So, until this changes, we are stuck
> with saxon (and java).
>
> D.
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