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Copyright © 2007 - 2009 Lars Vogel
04.05.2009
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Eclipse Microsoft Integration
This article will demonstrate how Eclipse SWT can be used to integrate / use Microsoft applications. Eclipse is using the SWT GUI framework. SWT does allow to integrated Microsoft application via OLE (Object Linking and Embedding).Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel and the File explorer are used as examples. The examples used are based on Eclipse RCP as this makes it easy to demonstrate the usage but work also with standalone Java application (which are using SWT).
This article assumes that you are already familiar with using the Eclipse IDE and with developing simple Eclipse RCP applications.
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Windows applications use OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) to allow applications to control other application objects. The following will show how to do this using a few examples.
Obviously the following examples assume that your are running on Microsoft Windows and have the application which is discussed installed.