Avatud dokumendiformaadid

IBM ja Sun Microsystems üllitasid täna pressiteate “OpenDocument Format (ODF) Toolkit Union” nimelise avatud tarkvara projekti loomise kohta. Projekt on mõeldud eeskätt tarkvaraarendajate vajaduste tarbeks, luues Application Programming Interface‘i (API), Software Development Kit‘i (SDK) jm. vahendeid, mis võimaldavad kergesti ja veavabalt lugeda, luua ja muuta ODF dokumente, kiirendades ja lihtsustades sellisel viisil ODF toega uute tarkvararakenduste arendamist.

IBM, Sun Microsystems Launch ODF Toolkit Union To Grow Adoption, Community and Software Innovation

IBM and Sun Microsystems today announced the launch of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Toolkit Union, a new open-source software community project organized to make document software more innovative, versatile and useful for business. The ODF Toolkit will use an initial software code contribution from Sun to provide developers with an easy-to-use Application Programming Interface (API) for reading, writing and manipulating ODF documents while accelerating additional application development. One part of the initial code contribution is an ODF Validator, a tool that validates OpenDocument files and checks certain conformance criteria. Capitalizing on the open, elegant nature of ODF, the Toolkit targets developers who want to create new applications and solutions ranging from content management, business workflows and activities to Web-based document solutions.

Developers using the ODF Toolkit will be able to easily produce new applications that:

• automatically create reports in response to database queries
• index or scan documents to support search services
• scan documents to support anti-virus services
• scan documents for regulatory compliance, legal or forensic purposes
• convert from one editable format to another
• render documents via other modalities such as audio, video as in unified communications
• import data from an office document into a non-office application; for example, import spreadsheet data into a statistical analysis application for business intelligence use.
• render and import documents for mobile device display and editing constraints

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