Sun Microsystems and the Open Document Format community
of developers have launched the ODF Toolkit.
The toolkit adds to the capabilities of the OpenOffice.org
productivity suite, and will help users implement systems that
support the ODF format in their data systems.
ODF competes against the proprietary document formats included
in Microsoft’s Office productivity suite, and national governments,
including India, are looking to widely adopt to avoid any data
lock-in.
Sun said the ODF Toolkit is being developed as a condensed and
concise code application, that will be used to implement ODF into
other software.
The goal of the community effort is to isolate components that
are able to provide ODF processing capabilities, so that
OpenOffice.org and other products and organisations share
development of common code. A greater number of developers are now
being urged to get involved.
Creation of the new ODF Toolkit Project
Sun blog on the launch
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