Hi,

Alain M., from the OOo Brazilian community, suggested the following solution:

1. Remove OOo 3.0.1
2. Install OOo 3.0.0
3. Remove the GC extension
4. Install OOo 3.0.1
5. Install the new GC extension

I tried it with Windows XP and it works fine.

Regards,
William



2009/1/29 William Colen <[email protected]>:
> Marcin
> Good news! I could try it today. Instead of recompile things, I tried to
> override the old jar with the new one that don't require the XGrammarChecker
> class. It was possible to remove using unopkg.
> I'm going to try a script to uninstall it in Windows. I can try it with LT
> also. Unfortunately I don't know how to write shell scripts.
> Regards
> William
>
>
> 2009/1/29 William Colen <[email protected]>
>>
>> I can't do that today also. I'll do it tomorrow.
>> Thank you!
>> William
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Marcin Miłkowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> that's not the best news we could hear :(
>>>
>>> I don't exactly remember which jar contained the XGrammarChecker class
>>> but you could try copying this into Cogroo directory while replacing the
>>> main Cogroo jar with a jar that contains the classpath setting to search for
>>> this jar in the current directory. So basically the script should copy two
>>> files. And then try unopkg... I guess this could be scripted for Windows and
>>> Mac & Unices (one batch file and one shell script). I don't have access to
>>> my development machine so I cannot experiment right now, so I'd be grateful
>>> if you could :)
>>>
>>> The script could first call unopkg to see if LT or Cogroo is left over,
>>> and only then do the dirty job.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Marcin
>>>
>>>
>>> Dnia 29 stycznia 2009 2:33 William Colen <[email protected]>
>>> napisał(a):
>>>
>>> > Marcin,
>>> >
>>> > I tried that but without success. First I tried with Cogroo and it
>>> > failed.
>>> > To make sure it wasn't something on Cogroo side I tried with LT and it
>>> > also
>>> > failed :(
>>> >
>>> > 1. Installed OOo 3.0.0
>>> > 2. Installed LT 0.9.5
>>> > 3. Installed OOo 3.0.1
>>> >
>>> > See the unopkg output:
>>> >
>>> > C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program>unopkg remove
>>> > org.openoffice.languaget
>>> > ool.oxt
>>> >
>>> > ERROR: [jni_uno bridge error] UNO calling Java method
>>> > writeRegistryInfo:
>>> > non-UNO
>>> >  exception occurred: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>>> > com/sun/star/linguistic2/XG
>>> > rammarChecker
>>> > java stack trace:
>>> > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>>> > com/sun/star/linguistic2/XGrammarChecker
>>> >         at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
>>> >         at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>> >         at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at
>>> > com.sun.star.comp.loader.RegistrationClassFinder.find(RegistrationCla
>>> > ssFinder.java:67)
>>> >         at
>>> > com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader.writeRegistryInfo(JavaLoader.java
>>> > :433)
>>> > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>>> > com.sun.star.linguistic2.XGrammarCh
>>> > ecker
>>> >         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>> >         at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>>> >         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
>>> >         ... 14 more
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > William
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Marcin Miłkowski  wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Mathias Bauer pisze:
>>> > >
>>> > >  Joachim Lingner wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>  Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg schrieb:
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>> Hi,
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>>> Marcin Miłkowski wrote:
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>>>  Hi,
>>> > >>>>>
>>> > >>>>> the problem is that the Java API has changed. So our extension
>>> > >>>>> that
>>> > >>>>> used the old API cannot find classes in new jars, and because of
>>> > >>>>> this fact
>>> > >>>>> you cannot uninstall it via the Extension Manager. Moreover, you
>>> > >>>>> cannot even
>>> > >>>>> specify the maximum allowed version for an extension (we wanted
>>> > >>>>> to do so),
>>> > >>>>> as this was introduced in 3.1, so it doesn't work for 3.0.0.
>>> > >>>>>
>>> > >>>>> Probably another workaround would be to manually copy the old jar
>>> > >>>>> to
>>> > >>>>> the extension directory and add it to the classpath, then use
>>> > >>>>> unopkg to
>>> > >>>>> remove the extension. In Linux, this is probably easily
>>> > >>>>> scriptable. In
>>> > >>>>> Windows, I'm not so sure... If you have any other suggestions, we
>>> > >>>>> will be
>>> > >>>>> grateful.
>>> > >>>>>
>>> > >>>>> This is a limitation of the Extension infrastructure, actually.
>>> > >>>>> The
>>> > >>>>> required maximum version feature is already implemented so this
>>> > >>>>> is already
>>> > >>>>> fixed for future versions of OOo.
>>> > >>>>>
>>> > >>>>> Regards
>>> > >>>>> Marcin
>>> > >>>>>
>>> > >>>>>
>>> > >>>> I do not consider the implementation of a maximum version to be a
>>> > >>>> fix
>>> > >>>> for not being able to uninstall/upgrade extensions, even though
>>> > >>>> the API
>>> > >>>> incompatibility has happened.
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>>> If it is about updating the Office: If on the next start, after
>>> > >>>> the
>>> > >>>> office update, incompatible extensions are found those should be
>>> > >>>> automatically disabled before the office gets started. Or at least
>>> > >>>> they
>>> > >>>> should be disabled and then the Office automatically restarted
>>> > >>>> once more
>>> > >>>> if necessary.
>>> > >>>> Firefox and Thunderbird for example seem to be able to do that...
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>> Yup. Missing feature. Although, if the removal fails because of the
>>> > >>> Java
>>> > >>> problem, then certainly disabling the extension would fail as well.
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> This is another good argument for one of my feature wishes: please
>>> > >> allow
>>> > >> the registration of binaries to be based on registry files
>>> > >> (preferable
>>> > >> human readable ones), don't require them to be executable or
>>> > >> loadable
>>> > >> for registration or deregistration. It would also be a performance
>>> > >> win
>>> > >> for the extension manager.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> The same works pretty well for COM components on Windows: you can
>>> > >> call
>>> > >> regsvr32.exe either on a libarary or on a reg file.
>>> > >>
>>> > >
>>> > > Daniel Naber has just found that unopkg can fix the problem :)
>>> > >
>>> > > So basically you can do it like this:
>>> > >
>>> > > unopkg remove org.openoffice.languagetool.oxt
>>> > >
>>> > > But it's clearly a defect that the Extension Manager is unable to do
>>> > > so.
>>> > >
>>> > > Regards
>>> > > Marcin
>>> > >
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