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The API project provides an entry point in the world of OpenOffice.org from a developers perspective. OpenOffice.org offers a language independent application programming interface (API) which allows to program the office in different programming languages (e.g. C , Java, Python, CLI, StarBasic, JavaScript, OLE). It allows to use OpenOffice.org as service provider in other applications, extend it with new functionality or simply customize and control OpenOffice.org. The popularity of the standardized (OASIS and ISO/IEC 26300) Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) is growing. This also drives the popularity of OpenOffice.org office in general. Corporate users often demand the integration of office productivity into existing workflows and applications. They also often require additional functionality or special customizations of the existing features. And that is one of the main goals of the API project. Provide the possiblitly to customize or control the office that it fits well in your existing environment or fullfill your special requirements. Software Development Kit SDK logo There is also a Software Development Kit (SDK) available which is an add-on for an existing OpenOffice.org. It provides the necessary tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating your own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org. If you are interested in OpenOffice.org programming, you can download the SDK. The OpenOffice.org API is based on UNO (Universal Network Objects) and consists of a wide range of interfaces defined in a Corba-like IDL. While the component technology determines how the components or applications communicate with each other and how the API is accessed from specific programming languages, the OpenOffice.org API defines the interface for accessing office functionality independently from certain programming languages. Get a first impression of the design goals or get a detailed description of the OpenOffice.org API and their concepts from the Developer's Guide and/or in the IDL reference. Code Snippets: If you search a quick answer to any API related question please visit our Code Snippet Base. And if you like this kind of knowledge base you are welcome to help us to improve and to extend this code snippet collection (see how to contribute). What's new The ease of use of an API depends firstly on the API itself and secondly how well it is supported by development tools. We have started two projects to provide better tools support for the OpenOffice.org API in the two main open source Java development IDEs NetBeans and Eclipse. You can find more detailed information about the NetBeans integration in the OO wiki where you can also download the plugin. Visit OpenOffice.org & Eclipse for information about the Eclipse plugin. We have started an API Wiki where we will provide additional information in the future. The OO.org Wiki is growing fast and in fact of the easy access (instead of cvs) we will provide more and more information there. Currently we are evaluating the transmission of the Developer's Guide into the Wiki to open the guide for translation and for faster and easier writing of new or changing of existing chapters. Stay tuned for further announcments of this!