1(1) goto "./nativelib/<platform>" directory and build it 2(2) build this directory 3(3) expand your class path to include all jar files of an office installation 4 (means all files in path "<officeinst>/program/classes") 5(4) goto "api/<platform>/class" 6(5) copy from an existing java installation the runtime library "jawt" (e.g. jawt.dll for windows) 7 into this directory 8(6) copy "api/<platform>/bin/nativelib.dll" (for windows) to "api/<platform>/class" 9(7) start an office : "soffice -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2083;urp;" 10(8) goto "api/<platform>/class" and start java applet: "java -jar desktop.jar" 11