Rony G. Flatscher, Author of "ScriptProviderForooRexx"

Rony G. Flatscher is the author of ScriptProviderForooRexx, an extension to OpenOffice.org (OOo). ScriptProviderForooRexx is included in Prof. Flatscher's "BSF4ooRexx" package, which makes the programming language "Open Object Rexx (ooRexx)" available to OOo. ooRexx is an easy to learn, easy to use, yet powerful scripting language supported by the non-profit "Rexx Language Association (RexxLA)" as an Open Source project. Dr. Flatscher is a professor of Business Administration and Business Informatics (German: "Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the WU (German: "Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien") in Austria, Europe, where he can be contacted.

Further Information and Links

Many electronic publications are available that relate to using BSF4ooRexx (and its precursor, "BSF4Rexx") to interact with OpenOffice.org.

Student's Work

This web-site http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/diplomarbeiten/ contains material related to OOo programming that may help students research basic technologies or the creation of applications. It includes many examples of OOo programming, as well as Prof. Flatscher's class material, seminar papers, and student Bachelor and Master theses. Be aware that the technologies used in the older papers may have been superseded by enhanced versions that make programming OOo even easier.

Helpful Articles

The following two articles may be helpful to gain a "taste" (fundamental concepts and syntax) of the scripting language ooRexx and some (advanced) aspects of BSF4ooRexx for the casual reader:

"Resurrecting REXX, Introducing Object Rexx", paper for the ECOOP (European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming) workshop "Revival of Dynamic Languages (RDL)", 2006, Nantes, France, Europe.
"The 2009 Edition of BSF4Rexx", conference proceedings of "The 2009 International Rexx Symposium" May 18th – May 21st 2009, Chilworth, England, Great Britain.

Helpful Links to Discussion Groups and e-Mail Lists

If there are questions about ooRexx or BSF4ooRexx then the following links may prove to be helpful:

The RexxLA private (members only) mailing list, cf. "Rexx Language Association (RexxLA)".
RexxLA is a non-profit association dedicated to users and developers of the entire Rexx family of programming languages on all computing platforms. This includes Classic Rexx, Regina, ooRexx, NetRexx and others, running applications on hardware from the mainframe to the smartphone. RexxLA is a group of very friendly and helpful people, many of whom are professionals earning their living with their Rexx skills.
RexxLA was founded in 1989, at the 10^th birthday of the Rexx language.
The public netnews discussion group news:comp.lang.rexx, for which various web-based interfaces exist (e.g. Google's group environment: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.rexx/).
This low-volume discussion group is monitored by many sophisticated Rexx programmers who are quite helpful. The authors of the various Rexx interpreters and of various external Rexx function packages usually monitor this group and may help out, if this appears to be necessary to them.
The public ooRexx Developer Mailing List (Sourceforge) is used by the ooRexx developers and authors of ooRexx function and class packages and programmers who use ooRexx or one of its function or class packages.
This is a low-volume, very interesting mailing list to monitor.

Last edited: 2011-04-29.