[mdlug] Open Office failures

Michael Corral micorral at comcast.net
Thu Feb 18 02:09:16 EST 2010


2010-02-18, Monsieur Jeff Hanson a ecrit:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Michael Corral wrote:
>> 2010-02-17, Monsieur David Lane a ecrit:
>>> Back to Open Office, when it runs into trouble are the JAVA resources
>>> an issue?
>>
>> What "JAVA resources" are you talking about? Open Office is not a
>> Java application.
>
> Base is a Java app.

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/FAQ_(Base)#Java

Short version: It can use Java, but can still run without it.
So I wouldn't call it a Java app.

And Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math are not Java apps at all.

I've run Open Office on machines without Java installed, and believe
me, it's more than capable of crashing on its own. :)

Michael



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