What is the ODK?
The Office Development Kit (ODK) extends the UDK with additional documentation, API’s (more IDL’s), and examples. The UDK is a subset of the ODK. If you want to extend the OpenOffice.org, or write solutions with OpenOffice.org, then the ODK fits your needs. The UDK is a stand alone object model, that can be used without OpenOffice.org. The UDK will be the main target of integration discussions with Gnome and XPCOM, for achieving the long term goal of having only one Open Source Object Model. In the future, it should be possible to write components which depend on the ODK and components which are independent from OpenOffice.org. The Office Development Kit enables software engineers to develop components for OpenOffice.org without the need of the bulky OpenOffice.org build environment. Thus, the ODK includes the binaries of the base libraries (+ im port libraries), C++ header files, all idl-files, .jar files, and development tools (code generators, tools to register components, etc.) The
