Obba provides a bridge from Speadsheets (Excel or OpenOffice) to Java classes.
With Obba, you can easily build Speadsheet GUIs to Java code.
Its main features are:
- Loading of arbitrary jar or class files at runtime through an Excel/OpenOffice worksheet function.
- Instantiation of Java objects, storing the object reference under a given object label.
- Invocation of methods on objects referenced by their object handle, storing the handle to the result under a given object label.
- Asynchronous method invocation and tools for synchronization, turning your spreadsheet into a multi-threaded calculation tool.
- Serialization and de-serialization (save Serializable objects to a file, restore them any time later).
- All this though spreadsheet functions, without any additional line of code (no VBA needed, no additional Java code needed).
- Spreadsheets using Obba to refer to Java libraries can be easily migrated from Excel to OpenOffice and back!
For a more detailed introduction see the
Obba documentation on the
Obba homepage.
Version 1.8.21 of Obba brings the following changes:
- Access fields of an object directly through a spreadsheet function call using 'obCall'. In this case the method name has to be dot + fieldname (e.g '.myMember').
- Access elements of an array through a spreadsheet function call using 'obCall'. In this case the method name has to be '[]' and the argument of the call is an integer specifying the index. Elements of multi-dimensional arrays can be accessed likewise.
- Vector arguments can be passed as arbitrary ranges (columns, rows or two dimensional ranges which are then flattened using row major).
