Hi, Éric Bischoff wrote: > Hi all, > > > D-Bus is quickly spreading as an universal way to talk between applications > on > the Unix systems, and more particularely (but not only) the Linux platforms: > HAL, GNOME, Avahi, udev, Beagle, Qt and KDE already use it. It is being > ported to Windows and has bindings to many programming languages and > environments. D-Bus is designed to be efficient and easy to use (remind > CORBA ? ;-) ). It is mostly used on one same machine, but can be transported > by TCP/IP. It has authentication mechanisms but no encryption so far (it must > be tunnelled if outside of a firewall-protected area). > > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdbus > > UNO is powerful, portable, and at the core of OpenOffice.org, but it has the > disadvantage of not being used outside of OOo. > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno/Article/Understanding_Uno > > UNO does not compare exactly to D-Bus, since UNO is a full component model > while D-Bus is more a matter of remote method invocation. However, they can > be used for the same thing: remote control of an application. > > Here is my question: > > What are the plans to make OOo scriptable through d-bus? > Speaking for SUN's StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Programmability Team (the UNO group is part of it), at the moment there are no plans to support d-bus.
Is someone outside SUN willing to work on this interesting topic? Contributions would be greatly appreciated. - Kai. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
