OOo native Mac version !

Jean-Christophe Helary fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp
Fri Feb 2 19:26:53 PST 2007


On 3 févr. 07, at 12:20, Hex Star wrote:

> > Well I believe the Windows port uses Java as well...I think
> > OpenOffice in general is made from Java...the main issue here I
> > believe is whether or not the GUI is native...not whether or not it
> > uses the native API's or not
>
> OOo is not made from Java at all. It is mostly C++ code.
>
> http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html
>
>>> Then why does it say here: <http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/ 
>>> source/sys_reqs_20.html >
>>>
>>> this:
>>>
>>> Java
>>> The minimum JDK/JRE version required to use OpenOffice.org  
>>> features that require java is JDK/JRE version 1.3.1.

It says that because to access some features of OOo 2.0 Java is  
required.

I specifically replied to _your_ comment which was: "OpenOffice is  
general is made of Java". No. It is not. Most of it is C++ and some  
recently implemented features use Java.

Jean-Christophe Helary






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