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by pjmlp 2621 days ago
Actually there was an Office like suite written in Java, e.g. Corel Office for Java.

JVM separation between computation and IO can be managed via classloaders and JAAS.
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viraptor 2621 days ago
OpenOffice / staroffice were also partially Java based for a while if I remember correctly
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squarefoot 2621 days ago
They could use whatever JVM one has installed, but the dependency became optional and can be turned off (Tools->Options->LibreOffice->Advanced on LibreOffice). I keep it turned off as I don't have Java installed anywhere and probably I lose some features in the process, but I don't recall having any problems in normal use. I'm definitely not an advanced LibreOffice user though.
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