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Ending the Symphony Fork

February 1, 2012

What is a fork? A fork is a form of software reuse.  I like your software module.  It meets some or many of my needs, but I need some additional features. When I want to reuse existing functionality from another software product, I generally have four choices: If your module is nicely designed and extensible, [...]

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First release of the Apache ODF Toolkit

January 26, 2012

The Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5 (incubating) release is now available for download.  Detailed change notes are also posted.  The ODF Toolkit is a Java library for reading, writing and creating ODF documents.  It is entirely in Java and does not require that you install a desktop editor like OpenOffice.  It operates directly on the file [...]

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An Invitation to the Apache ODF Toolkit

August 15, 2011

Perhaps overlooked in all the excitement generated by the move of OpenOffice.org to Apache was the fact that a parallel move is occurring with the ODF Toolkit.  A few weeks ago we submitted a proposal to Apache to start a new project based on the Java components that were until then hosted by the ODF [...]

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