Hi there,
if this is not the right list, please advise. [This e-mail is directed
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After peeking around the documentation (mainly developer's guide)
currently one is able to create componenents in C++ and Java (and also
in Python).
The question: how would one create and implement UNO components in
scripting languages that can be deployed via the OOo (Java-based)
scripting framework (e.g. JavaScript/Rhino, BeanShell, but also ooRexx
or other BSF-scripting languages)?
Some of the questions that may be needed to be addressed would be:
* How can one dynamically add IDL kind of type information to the
registry, such that the new types become reflectable?
* How can one register a component dynamically ?
* How can one supply a service manager object to be used for
instantiating instances?
* How can one take advantage of helper classes (XWeak, XComponent) ?
Are there any links/hints to postings, definitions, sketches of such a
functionality? Is there some experimental implementation available
somewhere (or is it even available already)?
Short of that, how is the Python support implemented? Is there a
documentation about the architecture and the UNO APIs it uses? What
are/were the problems there, are there any shortcomings?
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Maybe to rephrase this question differently: I would like to come up
with a solution for OOo disptachable scripting languages, in which
script programmers have no need for the OOo SDK, if they wish to create
UNO components in their scripting language of choice. (The necessary
complexity involved in creating UNO components, should be reduced to an
absolute minimum, where this minimum should be to have no need for
installing the OOo SDK.)
TIA,
---rony
