Re: porting extension [java-netbeans] from OpenOffice to LibreOffice

Just to follow up, I've gone over the process a couple times, refactoring
the copy-pastes, then double and triple checking that everything is in
place... and it seems that I now have it working. I guess I can soon
publish in the extensions website.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 5:42 PM, John D'Orazio <
john.dorazio@cappellaniauniroma3.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone, I wrote and published an extension for OpenOffice in Java
> using the OpenOffice Netbeans plugin.
>
> Now I am trying to port it over to LibreOffice so I can publish it as an
> extension there too.
>
> At first I was getting some errors such as this:
>
> Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.VerifyError: Stack map
> does not match the one at exception handler 354 Exception Details:
>  Location:     io/bibleget/BibleGetJSON.JSONParse(Ljava/lang/String;)V
> @354: astore   Reason:     Type
> 'com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException' (current frame, stack[0]) is
> not assignable to 'com/sun/star/uno/Exception' (stack map, stack[0])   Current
> Frame:     bci: @283     flags: { }     locals: { 'io/biblege
>
> But I think I figured out what the problem there was, it's not enough to
> just change the context of the Netbeans plugin environment to LibreOffice 5
> and LibreOffice 5 SDK, it's also necessary to actually create a new
> OpenOffice plugin project after adjusting the context so that the right
> .jar files will be included in the libraries.
>
> However when I try to create a new OpenOffice project, after going through
> the wizard I am getting this error: "unknown entity
> com.sun.star.frame.ProtocolHandler"
>
> So I don't know if the project is being created correctly or not...
>
> I tried deleting all files in the project except the LibreOffice jar
> libraries, and copying over all the files from the OpenOffice project
> together with all other libraries that I am using (not OpenOffice jars).
> However when I "build and install in OpenOffice", it does install the
> extension to the extension manager and open LibreOffice, and I do see the
> addon menu with the menu items, but all of the menu items are greyed out.
>
> Does LibreOffice use a different .xcu format than OpenOffice? I'm guessing
> it's not liking something in the
> registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Addons.xcu.
>
>
> --
> John R. D'Orazio


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John R. D'Orazio