Re: [Libreoffice] Deleting Java from Base

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@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.