Developer's Guide Intro

The 'DevelopersGuide' example section. The main target language for most of the examples is Java. However, for some chapters, where the focus is on a special target language, the examples are in that language (e.g. C++, [PRODUCTNAME] Basic).

The guide is available in two versions: a One short comment on the history of this guide. The OpenOffice.org core developers have collected detailed knowledge about UNO and the OpenOffice.org API. Sun Microsystems has commissioned two independent software developers and authors to write the Developer's Guide based on this material.
Through this documentation initiative, Sun Microsystems emphasizes its commitment to OpenOffice.org. Sun hopes to promote the adoption of OpenOffice.org for custom solutions and tries to broaden the market both for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice.
The guide has been written by [PRODUCTNAME] itself and was later converted to PDF and XHTML.The XHTML conversion especially shows the flexibility of the XML based file format of [PRODUCTNAME]. It was made by an XSL transformation without a running office based directly on the documents. This
XSL transformation is also available on OpenOffice.org. The integration with the reference documentation was done by the documentation tool and a Perl script which collects and provides the necessary information for the documentation tool.

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