This release supports only LibreOffice 5.0 and upwards (due to some changed internal paths). It was tested with Eclipse Mars (4.5). Older versions might still work, but are untested.

For historic releases supporting older versions of LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) visit this site.

Installation

Install this plugin via an update site in Eclipse pointing to one of:

http://eclipse-plugins.libreoffice.org (to install a released version)
the site directory (when building from source)

After installing the plugin, you can create new extensions/components by using File->New->Project->LibreOffice.

Documentation

Developer and User Documentation is found in core/doc/help/html.

Development

Prerequisites

In order to build LOEclipseIntegration to produce an update site, you need to have LibreOffice, the LibreOffice SDK and Eclipse installed.

On Ubuntu for example you need libreoffice-dev and libreoffice-java-common.

Also you need to add some jar files to the build path in Eclipse. Select the Window->Preferences menu in Eclipse and open the Java->Build path->User Library configuration page. Then add a new library named LO-Classes and add the following jars from the LibreOffice installation (found in program/classes): unoil.jar juh.jar jurt.jar ridl.jar unoloader.jar. This is necessary in order to correctly build the sources.

Working with Eclipse

You can run and debug this extension with Eclipse. Just import the projects using File->Import and run/debug the project as an Eclipse installation.

Building an update site

To build an update site, run the following command in the build folder:

ant -Dlibreoffice.home=... -Declipse.home=...

where libreoffice.home is the path to the LibreOffice installation and eclipse.home the path to the eclipse installation (needs to contain a plugins and a features directory).

You can also persist the options by setting the ANT_ARGS variable to

-Dlibreoffice.home=... -Declipse.home=....

Available build targets

Run ant help to see the available build targets.

Features

UNO-IDL syntax highlighting
SDK and LibreOffice Configuration
Java code generation
New UNO project wizard
New UNO file wizard
New UNO service wizard
New UNO interface wizard
Skeleton-maker integration for basic components creation
URE configuration
New URE application wizard
Automatic component build and packaging
Automatic deployment to an existing LibreOffice installation
Remote debugging using the Eclipse debugger

Nice to have features:

Adding C++ language support
Adding Python language support
New UNO wizard for other IDL types
Easy support of several services implementations in a component
Outline view for UNOIDL file