JooIT.com: Google 收购Tonic - GoogleOffice将再添新丁

Google买下了一个叫Tonic，该公司是一个基于Java的幻灯片制作、查看管理的办公产品。可见Google将其收购为了完整的形成自己的Google在线办公系统，目前已经提供类似微软的：Word,Excle,Frontpage,现在又来个Powerpoint，这样以来把微软办公用品中人们最常用的 Google都已经有了。

而现在Tonic的官方已经关闭服务，首页上只有官方FAQ

不过我们可以通过Google的网页快照功能查看到一部分资料，比如，Tonic的主要产品有：TonicPoint Builder； TonicPoint Filter； TonicPoint Transformer； TonicPoint Viewer； JarJar Links。

甚至我还下载到了官方的程序，（包括Mac，Windows和Unix的）以下是官方下载介绍：

TonicPoint® Viewer - Overview
The TonicPoint Viewer is a standalone Java application that allows you to open and view PowerPoint presentations on any platform. The Viewer supports the standard PowerPoint file format that is used by PowerPoint 97, 2000, XP, 2003, etc. The Viewer uses our TonicPoint Transformer technology to display sharp, crisp images of your slides.

Download Now (no registration required)

Windows (98, ME, 2000, XP)
- Download TonicPointViewer-1.4.exe (~750KB)
- Requires Java 5 (Download)

Macintosh (OS X 10.4.5 or later)
- Download TonicPointViewer-1.4-OSX.zip (~750KB)
- Requires J2SE 5.0 Release 4 (Download for PPC, Intel). Most users will automatically receive this via the Software Update mechanism.

Linux/Other (Platform-independent)
- Download tonicpoint.jar (~750KB)
- Requires Java 5 (Download)
- The jar file is executable; in most environments double-clicking it will launch the application.

Jar Jar Links - Introduction
Jar Jar Links is a utility that makes it easy to repackage Java libraries and embed them into your own distribution. This is useful for two reasons:
You can easily ship a single jar file with no external dependencies.

You can avoid problems where your library depends on a specific version of a library, which may conflict with the dependencies of another library.

Jar Jar Links was initially developed in-house for use in building our TonicPoint Builder, and is licensed under the GPL (see below).

How does it work?
Jar Jar Links includes an Ant task (com.tonicsystems.jarjar.JarJarTask) that extends the built-in Jar task. The normal zipfileset element is used to embed jar files. A new rule element is added which uses wildcards patterns to rename the embedded class files. Bytecode transformation (via ASM) is used to change references to the renamed classes, and special handling is provided for moving resource files and transforming string literals.

Please see the manual for complete documentation.

Download
The current release is version 0.9, available here.

Resources
For now, users and developers are both welcome on the jarjar-devel mailing list.

Anonymous CVS access is available, see here for details.

Please see the SourceForge project page for other project information.

License
Jar Jar Links - A utility to repackage and embed Java libraries
Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 Tonic Systems, Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should receive a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; see the file COPYING. if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307 USA