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OpenOffice Python API much nicer than Java API

February 18th, 2009  |  by akoelewijn  |  published in java, open standards, oss

I wrote a small Python program today, to see if a could create a workaround for a problem i have in Java. I’ve written a couple of Java applications that use OpenOffice’s API to create ODF and MS-Word documents. The OpenOffice API that i used in Java is pretty horrible: very verbose, not intuitive. You [...]

How to find true cause of com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException?

February 17th, 2009  |  by akoelewijn  |  published in java, oss

I’m stuck with OpenOffice. I’m hoping somebody can help me with this. I’ve also posted the question to the OpenOffice.org forums and to StackOverflow, but so far no luck.
I’m trying to replace a field in an openoffice document using the OpenOffice java api. I’m using the insertString method:

xText.insertString(((XTextField) fieldMaster).getAnchor(), value.toString(), false);

The stacktrace is [...]

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