OpenOffice and Mysql Connector/J (Java support?)

[Chris Halls]

On Sunday 20 Feb 2005 01:13, Chris Wilson wrote:
> While trying to get openoffice and MySQL to talk to each other using
> MySQL Connector/J, I ran in to a problem. To get connector/J to work
> one has to enable Java (options -> security) and add the path to
> connector/J to classpath. However, whenever I try to enable Java, the
> state is not saved and it basically just doesn't work.
>
> Is this a bug or does it have something to do with Java being unsupported?

It is a licensing problem, I'm afraid.  A package in main needs to have a free 
license, and must be buildable using packages only from main.  Building OOo 
with java support needs a JDK that does not meet those rules.  The good news 
is, there is ongoing work to get OOo2 working with gcj, which is free.

Chris