Since most of our Java projects use Maven 2 as their build tool, and some of them, like our open source JODConverter, rely on the Java/Uno libraries for OpenOffice.org integration, I though it would be nice to have those libraries available in the central Maven repository.

So I suggested the idea to the OpenOffice.org team, and they eventually endorsed it, as long as I could take care of the task.

Which of course I did, so now, thanks to the Maven team as well, we can simply declare our dependencies by adding to our pom.xml something like

<dependency>
<groupId>org.openoffice</groupId>
<artifactId>juh</artifactId>
<version>2.1.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>


The available artifacts are juh, jurt, ridl, and unoil (although for JODConverter the jurt module is not directly referenced so only the other 3 need to be declared, jurt will be pulled in as a transitive dependency).

See the OpenOffice.org Wiki for more info.