Re: [actf-dev] Documentation Question

["Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kentarou,

#1:
Yes, that would be enough. Thank you
 
#2:

The most prevalent error message, is this:

"application could not be found in the registry"

Followed by a stack trace.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: actf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:actf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kentarou Fukuda
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:52 AM
To: ACTF developers list
Cc: 'ACTF developers list'
Subject: Re: [actf-dev] Documentation Question

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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