title: OOoBeans dead? - What are my alternatives?
body: <p>recently I've started to explore the Officebean Library, in other words I've tried to get an simple OOoBean example running.
  Unfortunately I didn't get anything going.</p>
  
  <p>First of all I've tried to build a Swing JFrame with a JPanel and the bean inside, but nothing was shown inside the window.</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class OpenOfficeGUI extends JFrame
  {
      private OOoBean ooBeanObj = null;
      private OfficeConnection ooConnection = null;
  
      public OpenOfficeGUI()
      {
          init();
      }
  
      private void init()
      {
          JPanel panel = new JPanel();
          JButton myButton = new JButton("Arsch");
          ooBeanObj = new OOoBean();
  
          myButton.setSize(100, 32);
  
          panel.setSize(800, 500);
          panel.setLocation(5, 5);
          panel.setBackground(new Color(125, 125, 125));
          panel.add(ooBeanObj);
          panel.add(myButton);
          panel.setLayout(null);
          this.add(panel);
  
          this.setSize(800, 600);
          this.setLocation(0, 0);
          this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My second attempt was an SWT application, shown at eclipsezone.com (<a href="http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t48966.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t48966.html</a>). I get this thing running, but at the startup an "com.sun.star.comp.beans.NoConnectionException" occurs.</p>
  
  <p>My third and last try was the OOoBeanViewer form the OpenOffice Wiki. Therefor I've found a <a href="http://the-music-of-time.blogspot.com/2010/01/openoffice-311-in-java-6-applet.html" rel="noreferrer">blog post</a> which seems to adress the above ConnectionException, but it doesn't run either and the same Exception appears.</p>
  
  <p>I also tried to manually start OpenOffice in the "listening" mode, by executing the command:
  <b>soffice.exe -bean -accept=pipe,name=login.name_Office;urp;StarOffice.NamingService</b></p>
  
  <p>In the end I didn't get anything going and noticed that there are nearly no up to date information about the OpenOffice Bean. Also many of the methods in the Officebean.jar are deprecated.</p>
  
  <p>So my questions are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>is OpenOfficeBean dead?</li>
  <li>do you have any advice how I can get a simple OpenOffice Java integration running?</li>
  <li>is the OpenOffice SDK an alternative to embed  OpenOffice in a Java Swing app?</li>
  <li>do you know some kind of ongoing information source about the bean or the SDK?</li>
  <li>is there an equivalent possibility for LibreOffice?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>