Re: [actf-dev] Documentation Question

[Kentarou Fukuda <KENTAROU@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sina,

Thank you for your post.

Since ACTF SDK is provided in form of compiled Jars, users do not have to 
think about these kind of dependencies and compilation issues, etc. 
However, to build or modify ACTF SDK, developers need to prepare these 
items, and I agree that we need to provide more information for ACTF 
developers. I'll submit a bug for it.

Anyway, I'll answer your questions.

#1:

Yes. To build ACTF SDK, we assume that OpenOffice exists in build 
environment. On the other hand, after compilation, our SDK automatically 
enables/disables related functions by checking existence of OOo. 

To reduce the impact of this dependency for developers, we might be able 
to separate Open Office related functions into other feature. After that, 
developers who want to focus on Web do not have to take care about the 
dependency. Is it enough?

BTW, this dependency information is now in a build instruction page of 
aDesigner (http://www.eclipse.org/actf/downloads/tools/aDesigner/build.php
). I'll copy it into appropriate page.

#2: 

Would you let me know more (such as error messages) about problems that 
you encountered? I will try to solve them, and will gather these 
information into FAQ page. Thank you in advance for your support.

Best regards,
Kentarou
---
Kentarou Fukuda, Ph.D.
IBM Research - Tokyo
Tel: +81-46-215-4659
E-mail: kentarou@xxxxxxxxxx

actf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 2011/01/11 22:58:30:

> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'ACTF developers list'" <actf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2011/01/11 22:58
> Subject: [actf-dev] Documentation Question
> Sent by: actf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Kentarou and others,
> 
> As I promised Kentarou during our phone conversation, here is a list
> of questions and problems I encountered when trying to compile
> and run ACTF.
> 
> #1: open office dependencies
> 
> It seems that the four jar files from Open Office are rather 
> necessary to build ACTF. Is this in fact true? I never could get any of
> the packages to be happy until I provided the 4 jar files in the 
> location specified by OOO_HOME.
> 
> If this is true, can we provide an easier way for a developer to 
> obtain these files, if they don't want to have open office
> installed?
> 
> I managed to find copies online, but it felt like a hack the moment 
> I did it, and so it would be nice to simply have a way of the
> user obtaining these jar files, or if at all possible, shipping with 
them.
> 
> 2. running the code:
> 
> Once I appeased eclipse's requests for these jar dependencies, I 
> think I got ACTF to compile; however, I could never launch
> anything, like ADesigner; for example. It would always error out.
> 
> It would be great to have a set of instructions on launching things 
> like ADesigner. I read the ones on the site; however, they never
> explained what to do in case of the various errors.
> 
> Let's start with those two. I'd like to have a build environment 
> here where I could rapidly test code contributions out, and so
> please let me know how I can help test what we come up with to achieve 
this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
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