Japplis of Amsterdam has released the alpha version of Joeffice, the first open source office suite written in the Java programming language.
The office suite comprises a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation package, database editor and a drawing viewer.
Joeffice works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It also works online in a browser. Joeffice is released under the Apache license 2.0 which makes it possible for companies to change the code and redistribute it internally without having the need to share the modified code.
Unlike some other office suites, Joeffice has a tab and docking system when opening multiple documents. It also can
be installed online and it has a plug-in system under which third party plug-ins can be downloaded and installed.
Japplis’ developer Anthony Goubard states he developed this open source office suite in just 30 days, according to Le Monde Informatique. In Goubard’s words: “The office suite was built with NetBeans and uses several popular open source Java libraries, which allowed me to build the program in one month.”
Joeffice needs Java 7 to run.