Adding upstream version 4:7.4.7.upstream/4%7.4.7upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/bridgefactory/BridgeFactory.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/bridgefactory/BridgeFactory.java
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+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.bridgefactory;
+
+import java.math.BigInteger;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+import com.sun.star.bridge.BridgeExistsException;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XBridgeFactory;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XInstanceProvider;
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+import com.sun.star.uno.IBridge;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+
+
+/**
+ * The BridgeFactory class implements the <code>XBridgeFactory</code> Interface.
+ *
+ * <p>It wraps the <code>UnoRuntime#getBridgeByName</code>method and delivers a
+ * XBridge component.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>This component is only usable for remote bridges.</p>
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class BridgeFactory implements XBridgeFactory/*, XEventListener*/ {
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the service, the <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through
+     * reflection.
+     */
+    public static final String __serviceName = "com.sun.star.bridge.BridgeFactory";
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a factory for creating the service.
+     *
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   implName     the name of the implementation for which a service is desired.
+     * @param   multiFactory the service manager to be uses if needed.
+     * @param   regKey       the registryKey.
+     * @return  returns a <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see                  com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(String implName,
+                                                          XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory,
+                                                          XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        XSingleServiceFactory xSingleServiceFactory = null;
+
+        if (implName.equals(BridgeFactory.class.getName()) )
+            xSingleServiceFactory = FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(BridgeFactory.class,
+                                                                    multiFactory,
+                                                                    regKey);
+
+        return xSingleServiceFactory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a remote bridge and memorizes it under <code>sName</code>.
+     *
+     * @param    sName                the name to memorize the bridge.
+     * @param    sProtocol            the protocol the bridge should use.
+     * @param    anInstanceProvider   the instance provider.
+     * @return   the bridge.
+     *
+     * @see                           com.sun.star.bridge.XBridgeFactory
+     */
+    public XBridge createBridge(String sName, String sProtocol, XConnection aConnection, XInstanceProvider anInstanceProvider) throws
+        BridgeExistsException,
+        com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException,
+        com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        boolean hasName = sName.length() != 0;
+        Object context = hasName ? sName : new UniqueToken();
+            // UnoRuntime.getBridgeByName internally uses context.toString() to
+            // distinguish bridges, so the result of
+            // new UniqueToken().toString() might clash with an explicit
+            // sName.toString(), but the UnoRuntime bridge management is
+            // obsolete anyway and should be removed
+
+        // do not create a new bridge, if one already exists
+        if (hasName) {
+            IBridge iBridges[] = UnoRuntime.getBridges();
+            for(int i = 0; i < iBridges.length; ++ i) {
+                XBridge xBridge = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XBridge.class, iBridges[i]);
+
+                if(xBridge != null && xBridge.getName().equals(sName)) {
+                    throw new BridgeExistsException(sName + " already exists");
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        XBridge xBridge;
+
+        try {
+            IBridge iBridge = UnoRuntime.getBridgeByName("java", context, "remote", context, hasName ? new Object[]{sProtocol, aConnection, anInstanceProvider, sName} : new Object[]{sProtocol, aConnection, anInstanceProvider});
+
+            xBridge = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XBridge.class, iBridge);
+        }
+        catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(e, e.getMessage());
+        }
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".createBridge:" + sName + " " + sProtocol + " " + aConnection + " "  + anInstanceProvider + " " + xBridge);
+
+        return xBridge;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a remote bridge which must already exist.
+     *
+     * @param    sName                the name of the bridge.
+     * @return   the bridge.
+     * @see                           com.sun.star.bridge.XBridgeFactory
+     */
+    public XBridge getBridge(String sName) throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        XBridge xBridge = null;
+
+        IBridge iBridges[] = UnoRuntime.getBridges();
+        for(int i = 0; i < iBridges.length; ++ i) {
+            xBridge = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XBridge.class, iBridges[i]);
+
+            if(xBridge != null) {
+                if(xBridge.getName().equals(sName))
+                    break;
+
+                else
+                    xBridge = null;
+            }
+        }
+
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".getBridge:" + sName + " " + xBridge);
+
+        return xBridge;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives all created bridges.
+     *
+     * @return   the bridges.
+     * @see      com.sun.star.bridge.XBridgeFactory
+     */
+    public synchronized XBridge[] getExistingBridges() throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        ArrayList<XBridge> vector = new ArrayList<XBridge>();
+
+        IBridge iBridges[] = UnoRuntime.getBridges();
+        for(int i = 0; i < iBridges.length; ++ i) {
+            XBridge xBridge = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XBridge.class, iBridges[i]);
+
+            if(xBridge != null)
+                vector.add(xBridge);
+        }
+
+        XBridge xBridges[]= new XBridge[vector.size()];
+        for(int i = 0; i < vector.size(); ++ i)
+            xBridges[i] = vector.get(i);
+
+        return xBridges;
+    }
+
+    private static final class UniqueToken {
+        public UniqueToken() {
+            synchronized (UniqueToken.class) {
+                token = counter.toString();
+                counter = counter.add(BigInteger.ONE);
+            }
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Returns a string representation of the object.
+         *
+         * @return a string representation of the object.
+         * @see java.lang.Object#toString
+         */
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            return token;
+        }
+
+        private final String token;
+        private static BigInteger counter = BigInteger.ZERO;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/Acceptor.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/Acceptor.java
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+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/Acceptor.java
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+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.connections;
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+import com.sun.star.connection.AlreadyAcceptingException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.ConnectionSetupException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+/**
+ * A component that implements the <code>XAcceptor</code> interface.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>Acceptor</code> is a general component, that uses less general
+ * components (like <code>com.sun.star.connection.socketAcceptor</code>) to
+ * implement its functionality.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+ * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+ *
+ * @since UDK 1.0
+ */
+public final class Acceptor implements XAcceptor {
+    /**
+     * The name of the service.
+     *
+     * <p>The <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through reflection.</p>
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static final String __serviceName
+    = "com.sun.star.connection.Acceptor";
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a factory for creating the service.
+     *
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param implName the name of the implementation for which a service is
+     *     requested.
+     * @param multiFactory the service manager to be used (if needed).
+     * @param regKey the registry key.
+     * @return an <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(
+        String implName, XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory, XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        return implName.equals(Acceptor.class.getName())
+            ? FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(Acceptor.class, __serviceName,
+                                              multiFactory, regKey)
+            : null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Acceptor</code> that uses the given service
+     * factory to create a specific <code>XAcceptor</code>.
+     *
+     * @param serviceFactory the service factory to use.
+     */
+    public Acceptor(XMultiServiceFactory serviceFactory) {
+        this.serviceFactory = serviceFactory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Accepts a connection request via the given connection type.
+     *
+     * <p>This call blocks until a connection has been established.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>The connection description has the following format:
+     * <code><var>type</var></code><!--
+     *     -->*(<code><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></code>).
+     * The specific <code>XAcceptor</code> implementation is instantiated
+     * through the service factory as
+     * <code>com.sun.star.connection.<var>type</var>Acceptor</code> (with
+     * <code><var>type</var></code> in lower case).</p>
+     *
+     * @param connectionDescription the description of the connection.
+     * @return an <code>XConnection</code> to the client.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+     */
+    public XConnection accept(String connectionDescription) throws
+        AlreadyAcceptingException, ConnectionSetupException,
+        com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        if (DEBUG) {
+            System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".accept("
+                               + connectionDescription + ")");
+        }
+        XAcceptor acc;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if (acceptor == null) {
+                acceptor = (XAcceptor) Implementation.getConnectionService(
+                    serviceFactory, connectionDescription, XAcceptor.class,
+                    "Acceptor");
+                acceptingDescription = connectionDescription;
+            } else if (!connectionDescription.equals(acceptingDescription)) {
+                throw new AlreadyAcceptingException(acceptingDescription
+                                                    + " vs. "
+                                                    + connectionDescription);
+            }
+            acc = acceptor;
+        }
+        return acc.accept(connectionDescription);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor#stopAccepting
+     */
+    public void stopAccepting() {
+        XAcceptor acc;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            acc = acceptor;
+        }
+        acc.stopAccepting();
+    }
+
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    private final XMultiServiceFactory serviceFactory;
+
+    private XAcceptor acceptor = null;
+    private String acceptingDescription;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/Connector.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/Connector.java
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+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.connections;
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+import com.sun.star.connection.ConnectionSetupException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnector;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+/**
+ * A component that implements the <code>XConnector</code> interface.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>Connector</code> is a general component, that uses less general
+ * components (like <code>com.sun.star.connection.socketConnector</code>) to
+ * implement its functionality.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+ * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+ *
+ * @since UDK 1.0
+ */
+public class Connector implements XConnector {
+    /**
+     * The name of the service.
+     *
+     * <p>The <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through reflection.</p>
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static final String __serviceName
+    = "com.sun.star.connection.Connector";
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a factory for creating the service.
+     *
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param implName the name of the implementation for which a service is
+     *     requested.
+     * @param multiFactory the service manager to be used (if needed).
+     * @param regKey the registry key.
+     * @return an <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(
+        String implName, XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory, XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        return implName.equals(Connector.class.getName())
+            ? FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(Connector.class, __serviceName,
+                                              multiFactory, regKey)
+            : null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Connector</code> that uses the given service
+     * factory to create a specific <code>XConnector</code>.
+     *
+     * @param serviceFactory the service factory to use.
+     */
+    public Connector(XMultiServiceFactory serviceFactory) {
+        this.serviceFactory = serviceFactory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Connects via the given connection type to a waiting server.
+     *
+     * <p>The connection description has the following format:
+     * <code><var>type</var></code><!--
+     *     -->*(<code><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></code>).
+     * The specific <code>XConnector</code> implementation is instantiated
+     * through the service factory as
+     * <code>com.sun.star.connection.<var>type</var>Connector</code> (with
+     * <code><var>type</var></code> in lower case).</p>
+     *
+     * @param connectionDescription the description of the connection.
+     * @return an <code>XConnection</code> to the server.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+     */
+    public synchronized XConnection connect(String connectionDescription)
+        throws NoConnectException, ConnectionSetupException
+    {
+        if (DEBUG) {
+            System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".connect("
+                               + connectionDescription + ")");
+        }
+        if (connected) {
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException("already connected");
+        }
+        XConnection con
+            = ((XConnector) Implementation.getConnectionService(
+                   serviceFactory, connectionDescription, XConnector.class,
+                   "Connector")).connect(connectionDescription);
+        connected = true;
+        return con;
+    }
+
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    private final XMultiServiceFactory serviceFactory;
+
+    private boolean connected = false;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/ConstantInstanceProvider.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/ConstantInstanceProvider.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6c2fcb2d8
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+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/ConstantInstanceProvider.java
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+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.connections;
+
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XInstanceProvider;
+
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+
+
+/**
+ * The <code>ConstantInstanceProvider</code> is a component
+ * that implements the <code>XInstanceProvider</code> Interface.
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge
+ * @see         com.sun.star.bridge.XBridgeFactory
+ * @see         com.sun.star.bridge.XInstanceProvider
+ * @see         com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class ConstantInstanceProvider implements XInstanceProvider {
+    /**
+     * When set to true, enables various debugging output.
+     */
+    public static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the service, the <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through
+     * reflection.
+     */
+    private static final String __serviceName = "com.sun.star.comp.connection.InstanceProvider";
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a factory for creating the service.
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   implName     the name of the implementation for which a service is desired.
+     * @param   multiFactory the service manager to be uses if needed.
+     * @param   regKey       the registryKey.
+     * @return  returns a <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see                  com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(String implName,
+                                                            XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory,
+                                                            XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        XSingleServiceFactory xSingleServiceFactory = null;
+
+        if (implName.equals(ConstantInstanceProvider.class.getName()) )
+            xSingleServiceFactory = FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(ConstantInstanceProvider.class,
+                                                                    __serviceName,
+                                                                    multiFactory,
+                                                                    regKey);
+
+        return xSingleServiceFactory;
+    }
+
+    protected XMultiServiceFactory _serviceManager;
+    protected String _serviceName;
+    protected Object _instance;
+
+
+    public void setInstance(String serviceName) throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception {
+        _instance = _serviceManager.createInstance(serviceName);
+        _serviceName = serviceName;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>ConstantInstanceProvider</code>.
+     * <p>Uses the provided ServiceManager as the provided instance.</p>
+     *
+     * @param    serviceManager   the provided service manager
+     */
+    public ConstantInstanceProvider(XMultiServiceFactory serviceManager) {
+        _serviceManager = serviceManager;
+
+        _serviceName = "SERVICEMANAGER";
+        _instance    = serviceManager;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives an object for the passed instance name.
+     *
+     * @return  the desired instance
+     * @param   sInstanceName   the name of the desired instance
+     */
+    public Object getInstance(String sInstanceName) throws com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        Object result = sInstanceName.equals(_serviceName) ? _instance : null;
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".getInstance(" + sInstanceName + "):" + result);
+
+        return result;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/Implementation.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/Implementation.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..94cabe253
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/Implementation.java
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.connections;
+
+import com.sun.star.connection.ConnectionSetupException;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+
+/**
+ * Helper class for <code>Acceptor</code> and <code>Connector</code>.
+ */
+final class Implementation {
+    /**
+     * Instantiate a service for a given connection type.
+     *
+     * @param factory the service factory used to instantiate the requested
+     *     service.
+     * @param description has the following format:
+     *     <code><var>type</var></code><!--
+     *         -->*(<code><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></code>).
+     *     The specific service implementation is instantiated through the
+     *     service factory as
+     *     <code>com.sun.star.connection.<var>type</var>service<var></var><!--
+     *         --></code>
+     *     (with <code><var>type</var></code> in lower case, and
+     *     <code><var>service</var></code> either <code>Acceptor</code> or
+     *     <code>Connector</code>).
+     * @param serviceClass the IDL interface type for which to query the
+     *     requested service.
+     * @param serviceType must be either <code>Acceptor</code> or
+     *     <code>Connector</code>.
+     * @return an instance of the requested service.  Never returns
+     *     <code>null</code>.
+     * @throws ConnectionSetupException if the requested service can not be
+     *     found, or cannot be instantiated.
+     */
+    public static Object getConnectionService(XMultiServiceFactory factory,
+                                              String description,
+                                              Class<?> serviceClass,
+                                              String serviceType)
+        throws ConnectionSetupException
+    {
+        int i = description.indexOf(',');
+        String type
+            = (i < 0 ? description : description.substring(0, i)).toLowerCase();
+        Object service = null;
+        try {
+            service = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                serviceClass,
+                factory.createInstance("com.sun.star.connection." + type
+                                       + serviceType));
+        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            throw e;
+        } catch (com.sun.star.uno.Exception e) {
+        }
+        if (service == null) {
+            // As a fallback, also try to instantiate the service from the
+            // com.sun.star.lib.connections package structure:
+            try {
+                service
+                    = Class.forName("com.sun.star.lib.connections." + type
+                                    + "." + type + serviceType).newInstance();
+            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+            } catch (InstantiationException e) {
+            }
+        }
+        if (service == null) {
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException("no " + serviceType + " for "
+                                               + type);
+        }
+        return service;
+    }
+
+    private Implementation() {} // do not instantiate
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/PipedConnection.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/PipedConnection.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..631cfae40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/connections/PipedConnection.java
@@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.connections;
+
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+/**
+ * The <code>PipedConnection</code> is a component that implements the
+ * <code>XConnection</code> Interface.
+ * <p>It is useful for <code>Thread</code> communication in one Process.</p>
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+ * @see         com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class PipedConnection implements XConnection {
+    /**
+     * When set to true, enables various debugging output.
+     */
+    public static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the service, the <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through
+     * reflection.
+     */
+    private static final String __serviceName = "com.sun.star.connection.PipedConnection";
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a factory for creating the service.
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   implName     the name of the implementation for which a service is desired.
+     * @param   multiFactory the service manager to be uses if needed.
+     * @param   regKey       the registryKey.
+     * @return  returns a <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see                  com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(String implName,
+                                                          XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory,
+                                                          XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        XSingleServiceFactory xSingleServiceFactory = null;
+
+        if (implName.equals(PipedConnection.class.getName()) )
+            xSingleServiceFactory = FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(PipedConnection.class,
+                                                                    __serviceName,
+                                                                    multiFactory,
+                                                                    regKey);
+
+        return xSingleServiceFactory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The amount of time in milliseconds, to wait to see check the buffers.
+     */
+    protected static final int __waitTime = 10000;
+
+    protected byte             _buffer[] = new byte[4096];
+    protected int              _in,
+                               _out;
+    protected boolean          _closed;
+    protected PipedConnection  _otherSide;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>PipedConnection</code>, sees if there is another
+     * side, which it should be connected to.
+     *
+     * @param    args   Another side could be in index 0.
+     */
+    public PipedConnection(Object args[]) throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        if (DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + " - instantiated");
+
+        _otherSide = (args.length == 1) ? (PipedConnection)args[0] : null;
+        if(_otherSide != null) {
+            if(_otherSide == this)
+                throw new RuntimeException("can not connect to myself");
+
+            _otherSide._otherSide = this;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This is a private method, used to communicate internal in the pipe.
+     */
+    private synchronized void receive(byte aData[]) throws com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        int bytesWritten = 0;
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### PipedConnection.receive - bytes:" + aData.length + " at:" + _out);
+
+        while(bytesWritten < aData.length) {
+            // wait until it is not full anymore
+            while(_out == (_in - 1) || (_in == 0 && _out == _buffer.length - 1)) {
+                try {
+                    notify(); // the buffer is full, signal it
+
+                    wait(__waitTime);
+                }
+                catch(InterruptedException interruptedException) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(interruptedException);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if(_closed) throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException("connection has been closed");
+
+            int bytes  ;
+
+            if(_out < _in) {
+                bytes = Math.min(aData.length - bytesWritten, _in - _out - 1);
+
+                System.arraycopy(aData, bytesWritten, _buffer, _out, bytes);
+            }
+            else {
+                if(_in > 0){
+                    bytes = Math.min(aData.length - bytesWritten, _buffer.length - _out);
+                }
+                else {
+                    bytes = Math.min(aData.length - bytesWritten, _buffer.length - _out - 1);
+                }
+
+                System.arraycopy(aData, bytesWritten, _buffer, _out, bytes);
+            }
+
+            bytesWritten += bytes;
+            _out += bytes;
+            if(_out >= _buffer.length)
+                _out = 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Read the required number of bytes.
+     *
+     * @param   aReadBytes   the out parameter, where the bytes have to be placed.
+     * @param   nBytesToRead the number of bytes to read.
+     * @return  the number of bytes read.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#read
+     */
+    public synchronized int read(/*OUT*/byte[][] aReadBytes, int nBytesToRead) throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        aReadBytes[0] = new byte[nBytesToRead];
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### PipedConnection.read - bytes:" + nBytesToRead + " at:" + _in);
+
+        // loop while not all bytes read or when closed but there is still data
+        while(nBytesToRead > 0 && (_in != _out || !_closed)) {
+            while(_in == _out && !_closed) {
+                try {
+                    notify(); // the buffer is empty, signal it
+
+                    wait(__waitTime); // we wait for data or for the pipe to be closed
+                }
+                catch(InterruptedException interruptedException) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(interruptedException);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if(_in < _out) {
+                int bytes = Math.min(nBytesToRead, _out - _in);
+
+                System.arraycopy(_buffer, _in, aReadBytes[0], aReadBytes[0].length - nBytesToRead, bytes);
+
+                nBytesToRead -= bytes;
+                _in += bytes;
+            }
+            else if(_in > _out) {
+                int bytes = Math.min(nBytesToRead, _buffer.length - _in);
+
+                System.arraycopy(_buffer, _in, aReadBytes[0], aReadBytes[0].length - nBytesToRead, bytes);
+
+                nBytesToRead -= bytes;
+                _in += bytes;
+                if(_in >= _buffer.length)
+                    _in = 0;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if(nBytesToRead > 0) { // not all bytes read
+            byte tmp[] = new byte[aReadBytes[0].length - nBytesToRead];
+            System.arraycopy(aReadBytes[0], 0, tmp, 0, tmp.length);
+
+            aReadBytes[0] = tmp;
+        }
+
+        return aReadBytes[0].length;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Write bytes.
+     *
+     * @param   aData the bytes to write.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#write
+     */
+    public void write(byte aData[]) throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        _otherSide.receive(aData);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Flushes the buffer, notifies if necessary the other side that new data has
+     * arrived.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#flush
+     */
+    public void flush() throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        synchronized(_otherSide) {
+            _otherSide.notify();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Closes the pipe.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#close()
+     */
+    public synchronized void close() throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        if(!_closed) {
+            _closed = true;
+
+            _otherSide.close();
+
+            notify();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a description of this pipe.
+     *
+     * @return  the description.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#getDescription
+     */
+    public String getDescription() throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        return getClass().getName();
+    }
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/Bootstrap.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/Bootstrap.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..edf21d7d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/Bootstrap.java
@@ -0,0 +1,429 @@
+// -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.helper;
+
+import com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XUnoUrlResolver;
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader;
+import com.sun.star.comp.servicemanager.ServiceManager;
+import com.sun.star.container.XSet;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XInitialization;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiComponentFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lib.util.NativeLibraryLoader;
+import com.sun.star.loader.XImplementationLoader;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.PrintStream;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Random;
+
+/** Bootstrap offers functionality to obtain a context or simply
+    a service manager.
+    The service manager can create a few basic services, whose implementations  are:
+    <ul>
+    <li>com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader</li>
+    <li>com.sun.star.comp.urlresolver.UrlResolver</li>
+    <li>com.sun.star.comp.bridgefactory.BridgeFactory</li>
+    <li>com.sun.star.comp.connections.Connector</li>
+    <li>com.sun.star.comp.connections.Acceptor</li>
+    <li>com.sun.star.comp.servicemanager.ServiceManager</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    Other services can be inserted into the service manager by
+    using its XSet interface:
+    <pre>
+        XSet xSet = UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XSet.class, aMultiComponentFactory );
+        // insert the service manager
+        xSet.insert( aSingleComponentFactory );
+    </pre>
+*/
+public class Bootstrap {
+
+    private static void insertBasicFactories(
+        XSet xSet, XImplementationLoader xImpLoader )
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        // insert the factory of the loader
+        xSet.insert( xImpLoader.activate(
+            "com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader", null, null, null ) );
+
+        // insert the factory of the URLResolver
+        xSet.insert( xImpLoader.activate(
+            "com.sun.star.comp.urlresolver.UrlResolver", null, null, null ) );
+
+        // insert the bridgefactory
+        xSet.insert( xImpLoader.activate(
+            "com.sun.star.comp.bridgefactory.BridgeFactory", null, null, null ) );
+
+        // insert the connector
+        xSet.insert( xImpLoader.activate(
+            "com.sun.star.comp.connections.Connector", null, null, null ) );
+
+        // insert the acceptor
+        xSet.insert( xImpLoader.activate(
+            "com.sun.star.comp.connections.Acceptor", null, null, null ) );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an array of default commandline options to start bootstrapped
+     * instance of soffice with. You may use it in connection with bootstrap
+     * method for example like this:
+     * <pre>
+     *     List list = Arrays.asList( Bootstrap.getDefaultOptions() );
+     *     list.remove("--nologo");
+     *     list.remove("--nodefault");
+     *     list.add("--invisible");
+     *
+     *     Bootstrap.bootstrap( list.toArray( new String[list.size()] );
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @return an array of default commandline options
+     * @see #bootstrap( String[] )
+     * @since LibreOffice 5.1
+     */
+    public static final String[] getDefaultOptions()
+    {
+        return new String[]
+        {
+            "--nologo",
+            "--nodefault",
+            "--norestore",
+            "--nolockcheck"
+        };
+    }
+
+    /**
+       backwards compatibility stub.
+        @param context_entries the hash table contains mappings of entry names (type string) to
+        context entries (type class ComponentContextEntry).
+        @throws Exception if things go awry.
+        @return a new context.
+     */
+    public static XComponentContext createInitialComponentContext( Hashtable<String, Object> context_entries )
+            throws Exception
+    {
+        return createInitialComponentContext((Map<String, Object>) context_entries);
+    }
+    /** Bootstraps an initial component context with service manager and basic
+        jurt components inserted.
+        @param context_entries the hash table contains mappings of entry names (type string) to
+        context entries (type class ComponentContextEntry).
+        @throws Exception if things go awry.
+        @return a new context.
+    */
+    public static XComponentContext createInitialComponentContext( Map<String, Object> context_entries )
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        ServiceManager xSMgr = new ServiceManager();
+
+        XImplementationLoader xImpLoader = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XImplementationLoader.class, new JavaLoader() );
+        XInitialization xInit = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XInitialization.class, xImpLoader );
+        Object[] args = new Object [] { xSMgr };
+        xInit.initialize( args );
+
+        // initial component context
+        if (context_entries == null)
+            context_entries = new HashMap<String,Object>( 1 );
+        // add smgr
+        context_entries.put(
+            "/singletons/com.sun.star.lang.theServiceManager",
+            new ComponentContextEntry( null, xSMgr ) );
+        // ... xxx todo: add standard entries
+        XComponentContext xContext = new ComponentContext( context_entries, null );
+
+        xSMgr.setDefaultContext(xContext);
+
+        XSet xSet = UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XSet.class, xSMgr );
+        // insert basic jurt factories
+        insertBasicFactories( xSet, xImpLoader );
+
+        return xContext;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Bootstraps a servicemanager with the jurt base components registered.
+     *
+     * See also UNOIDL <code>com.sun.star.lang.ServiceManager</code>.
+     *
+     * @throws Exception if things go awry.
+     * @return     a freshly bootstrapped service manager
+     */
+    public static XMultiServiceFactory createSimpleServiceManager() throws Exception
+    {
+        return UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XMultiServiceFactory.class, createInitialComponentContext( (Map<String, Object>) null ).getServiceManager() );
+    }
+
+
+    /** Bootstraps the initial component context from a native UNO installation.
+
+        @throws Exception if things go awry.
+        @return a freshly bootstrapped component context.
+
+        See also
+        <code>cppuhelper/defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext()</code>.
+    */
+    public static final XComponentContext defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext()
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        return defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext( (String) null, (Map<String,String>) null );
+    }
+    /**
+     * Backwards compatibility stub.
+     *
+     * @param ini_file
+     *        ini_file (may be null: uno.rc besides cppuhelper lib)
+     * @param bootstrap_parameters
+     *        bootstrap parameters (maybe null)
+     *
+     * @throws Exception if things go awry.
+     * @return a freshly bootstrapped component context.
+     */
+    public static final XComponentContext defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext(
+            String ini_file, Hashtable<String,String> bootstrap_parameters )
+            throws Exception
+    {
+        return defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext(ini_file, (Map<String,String>) bootstrap_parameters);
+
+    }
+    /** Bootstraps the initial component context from a native UNO installation.
+
+        See also
+        <code>cppuhelper/defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext()</code>.
+
+        @param ini_file
+               ini_file (may be null: uno.rc besides cppuhelper lib)
+        @param bootstrap_parameters
+               bootstrap parameters (maybe null)
+
+        @throws Exception if things go awry.
+        @return a freshly bootstrapped component context.
+    */
+    public static final XComponentContext defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext(
+        String ini_file, Map<String,String> bootstrap_parameters )
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        // jni convenience: easier to iterate over array than calling Hashtable
+        String pairs [] = null;
+        if (null != bootstrap_parameters)
+        {
+            pairs = new String [ 2 * bootstrap_parameters.size() ];
+            int n = 0;
+            for (Map.Entry<String, String> bootstrap_parameter : bootstrap_parameters.entrySet()) {
+                pairs[ n++ ] = bootstrap_parameter.getKey();
+                pairs[ n++ ] = bootstrap_parameter.getValue();
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (! m_loaded_juh)
+        {
+            if ("The Android Project".equals(System.getProperty("java.vendor")))
+            {
+                // Find out if we are configured with DISABLE_DYNLOADING or
+                // not. Try to load the lo-bootstrap shared library which
+                // won't exist in the DISABLE_DYNLOADING case. (And which will
+                // be already loaded otherwise, so nothing unexpected happens
+                // that case.) Yeah, this would be simpler if I just could be
+                // bothered to keep a separate branch for DISABLE_DYNLOADING
+                // on Android, merging in master periodically, until I know
+                // for sure whether it is what I want, or not.
+
+                boolean disable_dynloading = false;
+                try {
+                    System.loadLibrary( "lo-bootstrap" );
+                } catch ( UnsatisfiedLinkError e ) {
+                    disable_dynloading = true;
+                }
+
+                if (!disable_dynloading)
+                    {
+                        NativeLibraryLoader.loadLibrary( Bootstrap.class.getClassLoader(), "juh" );
+                    }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                NativeLibraryLoader.loadLibrary( Bootstrap.class.getClassLoader(), "juh" );
+            }
+            m_loaded_juh = true;
+        }
+        return UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XComponentContext.class,
+            cppuhelper_bootstrap(
+                ini_file, pairs, Bootstrap.class.getClassLoader() ) );
+    }
+
+    private static boolean m_loaded_juh = false;
+    private static native Object cppuhelper_bootstrap(
+        String ini_file, String bootstrap_parameters [], ClassLoader loader )
+        throws Exception;
+
+    /**
+     * Bootstraps the component context from a UNO installation.
+     *
+     * @throws BootstrapException if things go awry.
+     *
+     * @return a bootstrapped component context.
+     *
+     * @since UDK 3.1.0
+     */
+    public static final XComponentContext bootstrap()
+        throws BootstrapException {
+
+        String[] defaultArgArray = getDefaultOptions();
+        return bootstrap( defaultArgArray );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Bootstraps the component context from a UNO installation.
+     *
+     * @param argArray
+     *        an array of strings - commandline options to start instance of
+     *        soffice with
+     * @see #getDefaultOptions()
+     *
+     * @throws BootstrapException if things go awry.
+     *
+     * @return a bootstrapped component context.
+     *
+     * @since LibreOffice 5.1
+     */
+    public static final XComponentContext bootstrap( String[] argArray )
+        throws BootstrapException {
+
+        XComponentContext xContext = null;
+
+        try {
+            // create default local component context
+            XComponentContext xLocalContext =
+                createInitialComponentContext( (Map<String, Object>) null );
+            if ( xLocalContext == null )
+                throw new BootstrapException( "no local component context!" );
+
+            // find office executable relative to this class's class loader
+            String sOffice =
+                System.getProperty( "os.name" ).startsWith( "Windows" ) ?
+                "soffice.exe" : "soffice";
+            File fOffice = NativeLibraryLoader.getResource(
+                Bootstrap.class.getClassLoader(), sOffice );
+            if ( fOffice == null )
+                throw new BootstrapException( "no office executable found!" );
+
+            // create random pipe name
+            String sPipeName = "uno" +
+                Long.toString(randomPipeName.nextLong() & 0x7fffffffffffffffL);
+
+            // create call with arguments
+            String[] cmdArray = new String[ argArray.length + 2 ];
+            cmdArray[0] = fOffice.getPath();
+            cmdArray[1] = ( "--accept=pipe,name=" + sPipeName + ";urp;" );
+
+            System.arraycopy( argArray, 0, cmdArray, 2, argArray.length );
+
+            // start office process
+            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec( cmdArray );
+            pipe( p.getInputStream(), System.out, "CO> " );
+            pipe( p.getErrorStream(), System.err, "CE> " );
+
+            // initial service manager
+            XMultiComponentFactory xLocalServiceManager =
+                xLocalContext.getServiceManager();
+            if ( xLocalServiceManager == null )
+                throw new BootstrapException( "no initial service manager!" );
+
+            // create a URL resolver
+            XUnoUrlResolver xUrlResolver =
+                UnoUrlResolver.create( xLocalContext );
+
+            // connection string
+            String sConnect = "uno:pipe,name=" + sPipeName +
+                ";urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext";
+
+            // wait until office is started
+            for (int i = 0;; ++i) {
+                try {
+                    // try to connect to office
+                    Object context = xUrlResolver.resolve( sConnect );
+                    xContext = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XComponentContext.class, context);
+                    if ( xContext == null )
+                        throw new BootstrapException( "no component context!" );
+                    break;
+                } catch ( com.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException ex ) {
+                    // Wait 500 ms, then try to connect again, but do not wait
+                    // longer than 5 min (= 600 * 500 ms) total:
+                    if (i == 600) {
+                        throw new BootstrapException(ex);
+                    }
+                    Thread.sleep( 500 );
+                }
+            }
+        } catch ( BootstrapException e ) {
+            throw e;
+        } catch ( java.lang.RuntimeException e ) {
+            throw e;
+        } catch ( java.lang.Exception e ) {
+            throw new BootstrapException( e );
+        }
+
+        return xContext;
+    }
+
+    private static final Random randomPipeName = new Random();
+
+    private static void pipe(
+        final InputStream in, final PrintStream out, final String prefix ) {
+
+        new Thread( "Pipe: " + prefix) {
+            @Override
+            public void run() {
+                try {
+                    BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(
+                        new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8") );
+
+                    for ( ; ; ) {
+                        String s = r.readLine();
+                        if ( s == null ) {
+                            break;
+                        }
+                        out.println( prefix + s );
+                    }
+                } catch ( UnsupportedEncodingException e ) {
+                    e.printStackTrace( System.err );
+                } catch ( java.io.IOException e ) {
+                    e.printStackTrace( System.err );
+                }
+            }
+        }.start();
+    }
+}
+
+// vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab:
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/BootstrapException.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/BootstrapException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..11911bbc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/BootstrapException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.helper;
+
+/**
+ * BootstrapException is a checked exception that wraps an exception
+ * thrown by the original target.
+ *
+ * @since UDK 3.1.0
+ */
+public class BootstrapException extends java.lang.Exception {
+
+    /**
+     * This field holds the target exception.
+     */
+    private Exception m_target = null;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a <code>BootstrapException</code> with <code>null</code> as
+     * the target exception.
+     */
+    public BootstrapException() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a <code>BootstrapException</code> with the specified
+     * detail message.
+     *
+     * @param  message   the detail message
+     */
+    public BootstrapException( String message ) {
+        super( message );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a <code>BootstrapException</code> with the specified
+     * detail message and a target exception.
+     *
+     * @param  message   the detail message
+     * @param  target    the target exception
+     */
+    public BootstrapException( String message, Exception target ) {
+        super( message );
+        m_target = target;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a <code>BootstrapException</code> with a target exception.
+     *
+     * @param  target    the target exception
+     */
+    public BootstrapException( Exception target ) {
+        super();
+        m_target = target;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the thrown target exception.
+     *
+     * @return the target exception
+     */
+    public Exception getTargetException() {
+        return m_target;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/ComponentContext.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/ComponentContext.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..34649d563
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/ComponentContext.java
@@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.comp.helper;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Any;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.DeploymentException;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiComponentFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XComponent;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XEventListener;
+import com.sun.star.lang.EventObject;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+
+
+class Disposer implements XEventListener
+{
+    private final XComponent m_xComp;
+
+
+    Disposer( XComponent xComp )
+    {
+        m_xComp = xComp;
+    }
+
+    public void disposing( EventObject Source )
+    {
+        m_xComp.dispose();
+    }
+}
+
+/** Component context implementation.
+*/
+public class ComponentContext implements XComponentContext, XComponent
+{
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+    private static final String SMGR_NAME = "/singletons/com.sun.star.lang.theServiceManager";
+    private static final String TDMGR_NAME = "/singletons/com.sun.star.reflection.theTypeDescriptionManager";
+
+    private Map<String,Object> m_table;
+    private XComponentContext m_xDelegate;
+
+    private XMultiComponentFactory m_xSMgr;
+    private boolean m_bDisposeSMgr;
+
+    private ArrayList<XEventListener> m_eventListener;
+
+    public ComponentContext( Hashtable<String,Object> table, XComponentContext xDelegate )
+    {
+        this((Map<String,Object>) table, xDelegate);
+    }
+
+    /** Ctor to create a component context passing a hashtable for values and a delegator
+        reference. Entries of the passed hashtable are either direct values or
+        ComponentContextEntry objects.
+
+        @param table
+               entries
+        @param xDelegate
+               if values are not found, request is delegated to this object
+    */
+    public ComponentContext( Map<String,Object> table, XComponentContext xDelegate )
+    {
+        m_eventListener = new ArrayList<XEventListener>();
+        m_table = table;
+        m_xDelegate = xDelegate;
+        m_xSMgr = null;
+        m_bDisposeSMgr = false;
+
+        Object o = table.get( SMGR_NAME );
+        if (o != null)
+        {
+            if (o instanceof ComponentContextEntry)
+            {
+                o = ((ComponentContextEntry)o).m_value;
+            }
+            m_xSMgr = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                XMultiComponentFactory.class, o );
+        }
+        if (m_xSMgr != null)
+        {
+            m_bDisposeSMgr = true;
+        }
+        else if (m_xDelegate != null)
+        {
+            m_xSMgr = m_xDelegate.getServiceManager();
+        }
+
+        // listen for delegate
+        XComponent xComp = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XComponent.class, m_xDelegate );
+        if (xComp != null)
+        {
+            xComp.addEventListener( new Disposer( this ) );
+        }
+    }
+
+    // XComponentContext impl
+
+    public Object getValueByName( String rName )
+    {
+        Object o = m_table.get( rName );
+        if (o == null)
+        {
+            if (m_xDelegate != null)
+            {
+                return m_xDelegate.getValueByName( rName );
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                return Any.VOID;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (!(o instanceof ComponentContextEntry))
+        {
+            // direct value in map
+            return o;
+        }
+
+        ComponentContextEntry entry = (ComponentContextEntry)o;
+        if (entry.m_lateInit == null)
+        {
+            return entry.m_value;
+        }
+
+        Object xInstance = null;
+        try
+        {
+            String serviceName = (String)entry.m_lateInit;
+            if (serviceName != null)
+            {
+                if (m_xSMgr != null)
+                {
+                    xInstance = m_xSMgr.createInstanceWithContext( serviceName, this );
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    if (DEBUG)
+                        System.err.println( "### no service manager instance for late init of singleton instance \"" + rName + "\"!" );
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                XSingleComponentFactory xCompFac = UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XSingleComponentFactory.class, entry.m_lateInit );
+                if (xCompFac != null)
+                {
+                    xInstance = xCompFac.createInstanceWithContext( this );
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    if (DEBUG)
+                        System.err.println( "### neither service name nor service factory given for late init of singleton instance \"" + rName + "\"!" );
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        catch (com.sun.star.uno.Exception exc)
+        {
+            if (DEBUG)
+                System.err.println( "### exception occurred on late init of singleton instance \"" + rName + "\": " + exc.getMessage() );
+        }
+
+        if (xInstance != null)
+        {
+            synchronized (entry)
+            {
+                if (entry.m_lateInit != null)
+                {
+                    entry.m_value = xInstance;
+                    entry.m_lateInit = null;
+                }
+                else // inited in the meantime
+                {
+                    // dispose fresh service instance
+                    XComponent xComp = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XComponent.class, xInstance );
+                    if (xComp != null)
+                    {
+                        xComp.dispose();
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            if (DEBUG)
+                System.err.println( "### failed late init of singleton instance \"" + rName + "\"!" );
+        }
+        return entry.m_value;
+    }
+
+    public XMultiComponentFactory getServiceManager()
+    {
+        if (m_xSMgr == null)
+        {
+            throw new DeploymentException(
+                "null component context service manager" );
+        }
+        return m_xSMgr;
+    }
+
+    // XComponent impl
+
+    public void dispose()
+    {
+        if (DEBUG)
+            System.err.print( "> disposing context " + this );
+
+        // fire events
+        EventObject evt = new EventObject( this );
+        for (XEventListener listener : m_eventListener)
+        {
+            listener.disposing( evt );
+        }
+        m_eventListener.clear();
+
+        XComponent tdmgr = null;
+        // dispose values, then service manager, then typedescription manager
+        for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : m_table.entrySet())
+        {
+            String name = entry.getKey();
+            if (! name.equals( SMGR_NAME ))
+            {
+                Object o = entry.getValue();
+                if (o instanceof ComponentContextEntry)
+                {
+                    o = ((ComponentContextEntry)o).m_value;
+                }
+
+                XComponent xComp = UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XComponent.class, o );
+                if (xComp != null)
+                {
+                    if (name.equals( TDMGR_NAME ))
+                    {
+                        tdmgr = xComp;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        xComp.dispose();
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        m_table.clear();
+
+        // smgr
+        if (m_bDisposeSMgr)
+        {
+            XComponent xComp = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                XComponent.class, m_xSMgr );
+            if (xComp != null)
+            {
+                xComp.dispose();
+            }
+        }
+        m_xSMgr = null;
+
+        // tdmgr
+        if (tdmgr != null)
+        {
+            tdmgr.dispose();
+        }
+
+        if (DEBUG)
+            System.err.println( "... finished" );
+    }
+
+    public void addEventListener( XEventListener xListener )
+    {
+        if (xListener == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException( "Listener must not be null" );
+          if (m_eventListener.contains( xListener ))
+              throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException( "Listener already registered." );
+
+           m_eventListener.add( xListener );
+    }
+
+    public void removeEventListener( XEventListener xListener )
+    {
+        if (xListener == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException( "Listener must not be null" );
+          if (! m_eventListener.contains( xListener ))
+              throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException( "Listener is not registered." );
+
+        m_eventListener.remove( xListener );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/ComponentContextEntry.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/ComponentContextEntry.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa402d29c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/ComponentContextEntry.java
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.comp.helper;
+
+/** Component context entry for constructing ComponentContext objects.
+    <p>
+    A ComponentContextEntry is separated into a late-init and direct-value
+    purpose.
+    The first one is commonly used for singleton objects of the component
+    context, that are raised on first-time retrieval of the key.
+    You have to pass a com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory
+    or string (=&gt; service name) object for this.
+    </p>
+*/
+public class ComponentContextEntry
+{
+    /** if late init of service instance, set service name (String) or
+        component factory (XSingleComponentFactory), null otherwise
+    */
+    public Object m_lateInit;
+    /** set entry value
+    */
+    public Object m_value;
+
+    /** Creating a late-init singleton entry component context entry.
+        The second parameter will be ignored and overwritten during
+        instantiation of the singleton instance.
+
+        @param lateInit
+               object factory or service string
+        @param value
+               pass null (dummy separating from second constructor signature)
+    */
+    public ComponentContextEntry( Object lateInit, Object value )
+    {
+        this.m_lateInit = lateInit;
+        this.m_value = value;
+    }
+    /** Creating a direct value component context entry.
+
+        @param value
+               pass null
+    */
+    public ComponentContextEntry( Object value )
+    {
+        this.m_lateInit = null;
+        this.m_value = value;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/SharedLibraryLoader.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/SharedLibraryLoader.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..035644efa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/helper/SharedLibraryLoader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+// -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.comp.helper;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+/**
+ * @deprecated use class Bootstrap bootstrapping a native UNO installation
+ *             and use the shared library loader service.
+ *
+ * The <code>SharedLibraryLoader</code> class provides the functionality of the <code>com.sun.star.loader.SharedLibrary</code>
+ * service.
+ *
+ * See also UNOIDL <code>com.sun.star.lang.ServiceManager</code>.
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.loader.SharedLibrary
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public class SharedLibraryLoader {
+    /**
+     * The default library which contains the SharedLibraryLoader component
+     */
+    public static final String DEFAULT_LIBRARY = "shlibloader.uno";
+
+    /**
+     * The default implementation name
+     */
+    public static final String DEFAULT_IMPLEMENTATION = "com.sun.star.comp.stoc.DLLComponentLoader";
+
+    static {
+        if ("The Android Project".equals(System.getProperty("java.vendor"))) {
+            // See corresponding code in
+            // javaunohelper/com/sun/star/comp/helper/Bootstrap.java for more
+            // comments.
+
+            boolean disable_dynloading = false;
+            try {
+                System.loadLibrary("lo-bootstrap");
+            } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
+                disable_dynloading = true;
+            }
+
+            if (!disable_dynloading)
+                System.loadLibrary("juh");
+        } else
+            System.loadLibrary("juh");
+    }
+
+    private static native boolean component_writeInfo(
+            String libName, XMultiServiceFactory smgr, XRegistryKey regKey,
+            ClassLoader loader );
+
+    private static native Object component_getFactory(
+            String libName, String implName, XMultiServiceFactory smgr,
+            XRegistryKey regKey, ClassLoader loader );
+
+    /**
+     * Supplies the ServiceFactory of the default SharedLibraryLoader.
+     * The defaults are "shlibloader.uno"
+     * for the library and "com.sun.star.comp.stoc.DLLComponentLoader"
+     * for the component name.
+     *
+     * See also UNOIDL <code>com.sun.star.lang.ServiceManager</code> and
+     * <code>com.sun.star.registry.RegistryKey</code>.
+     *
+     * @return  the factory for the "com.sun.star.comp.stoc.DLLComponentLoader" component.
+     * @param   smgr    the ServiceManager
+     * @param   regKey  the root registry key
+     * @see     com.sun.star.loader.SharedLibrary
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory getServiceFactory(
+                XMultiServiceFactory smgr,
+                XRegistryKey regKey )
+    {
+        return UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XSingleServiceFactory.class,
+                    component_getFactory(
+                        DEFAULT_LIBRARY, DEFAULT_IMPLEMENTATION, smgr, regKey,
+                        SharedLibraryLoader.class.getClassLoader() ) );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Loads and returns a specific factory for a given library and implementation name.
+     *
+     * See also UNOIDL <code>com.sun.star.lang.ServiceManager</code> and
+     * <code>com.sun.star.registry.RegistryKey</code>.
+     *
+     * @return  the factory of the component
+     * @param   libName the name of the shared library
+     * @param   impName the implementation name of the component
+     * @param   smgr    the ServiceManager
+     * @param   regKey  the root registry key
+     * @see     com.sun.star.loader.SharedLibrary
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory getServiceFactory(
+                String libName,
+                String impName,
+                XMultiServiceFactory smgr,
+                XRegistryKey regKey )
+    {
+        return UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XSingleServiceFactory.class,
+                    component_getFactory(
+                        libName, impName, smgr, regKey,
+                        SharedLibraryLoader.class.getClassLoader() ) );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Registers the SharedLibraryLoader under a RegistryKey.
+     *
+     * See also UNOIDL <code>com.sun.star.lang.ServiceManager</code> and
+     * <code>com.sun.star.registry.RegistryKey</code>.
+     *
+     * @return  true if the registration was successful - otherwise false
+     * @param   smgr    the ServiceManager
+     * @param   regKey  the root key under that the component should be registered
+     * @see     com.sun.star.loader.SharedLibrary
+     */
+    public static boolean writeRegistryServiceInfo(
+                com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory smgr,
+                com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey regKey )
+    {
+        return component_writeInfo(
+            DEFAULT_LIBRARY, smgr, regKey,
+            SharedLibraryLoader.class.getClassLoader() );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Registers the SharedLibraryLoader under a RegistryKey.
+     *
+     * See also UNOIDL <code>com.sun.star.lang.ServiceManager</code> and
+     * <code>com.sun.star.registry.RegistryKey</code>.
+     *
+     * @return  true if the registration was successful - otherwise false
+     * @param   libName name of the shared library
+     * @param   smgr    the ServiceManager
+     * @param   regKey  the root key under that the component should be registered
+     * @throws  com.sun.star.registry.InvalidRegistryException
+     *          if the registry is not valid.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.loader.SharedLibrary
+     */
+    public static boolean writeRegistryServiceInfo(
+                String libName,
+                com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory smgr,
+                com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey regKey )
+
+            throws  com.sun.star.registry.InvalidRegistryException,
+                    com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return component_writeInfo(
+            libName, smgr, regKey, SharedLibraryLoader.class.getClassLoader() );
+    }
+}
+
+// vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab:
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/FactoryHelper.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/FactoryHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fe56f594f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/FactoryHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,502 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.loader;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XInitialization;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XTypeProvider;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+
+
+/**
+ * The purpose of this class to help component implementation.
+ *
+ * <p>This class has default implementations for <code>getServiceFactory</code>
+ * and <code>writeRegistryServiceInfo</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory
+ * @see         com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class FactoryHelper {
+
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+    // the factory
+    protected static class Factory
+        implements XSingleServiceFactory, XSingleComponentFactory, XServiceInfo,
+        XTypeProvider {
+
+        protected XMultiServiceFactory _xMultiServiceFactory;
+        protected XRegistryKey         _xRegistryKey;
+        protected int                  _nCode;
+        protected Constructor<?>       _constructor;
+        protected String               _implName;
+        protected String               _serviceName;
+
+        protected Factory(Class<?> implClass,
+                          String serviceName,
+                          XMultiServiceFactory xMultiServiceFactory,
+                          XRegistryKey xRegistryKey)
+        {
+            _xMultiServiceFactory = xMultiServiceFactory;
+            _xRegistryKey         = xRegistryKey;
+            _implName             = implClass.getName();
+            _serviceName          = serviceName;
+
+            Constructor<?> constructors[] = implClass.getConstructors();
+            for(int i = 0; i < constructors.length && _constructor == null; ++i) {
+                Class<?> parameters[] = constructors[i].getParameterTypes();
+
+                if(parameters.length == 3
+                   && parameters[0].equals(XComponentContext.class)
+                     && parameters[1].equals(XRegistryKey.class)
+                     && parameters[2].equals(Object[].class)) {
+                    _nCode = 0;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                else if(parameters.length == 2
+                     && parameters[0].equals(XComponentContext.class)
+                     && parameters[1].equals(XRegistryKey.class)) {
+                    _nCode = 1;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                else if(parameters.length == 2
+                     && parameters[0].equals(XComponentContext.class)
+                     && parameters[1].equals(Object[].class)) {
+                    _nCode = 2;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                else if(parameters.length == 1
+                     && parameters[0].equals(XComponentContext.class)) {
+                    _nCode = 3;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                // depr
+                else if(parameters.length == 3
+                     && parameters[0].equals(XMultiServiceFactory.class)
+                     && parameters[1].equals(XRegistryKey.class)
+                     && parameters[2].equals(Object[].class)) {
+                    _nCode = 4;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                else if(parameters.length == 2
+                     && parameters[0].equals(XMultiServiceFactory.class)
+                     && parameters[1].equals(XRegistryKey.class)) {
+                    _nCode = 5;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                else if(parameters.length == 2
+                     && parameters[0].equals(XMultiServiceFactory.class)
+                     && parameters[1].equals(Object[].class)) {
+                    _nCode = 6;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                else if(parameters.length == 1
+                     && parameters[0].equals(XMultiServiceFactory.class)) {
+                    _nCode = 7;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                else if(parameters.length == 1
+                     && parameters[0].equals(Object[].class)) {
+                    _nCode = 8;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+                else if(parameters.length == 0) {
+                    _nCode = 9;
+                    _constructor = constructors[i];
+                }
+            }
+
+            if(_constructor == null) // have not found a usable constructor
+                throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(getClass().getName() + " can not find a usable constructor");
+        }
+
+        private final XMultiServiceFactory getSMgr( XComponentContext xContext )
+        {
+            if (xContext != null)
+            {
+                return UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XMultiServiceFactory.class, xContext.getServiceManager() );
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                return _xMultiServiceFactory;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // XComponentContext impl
+
+        public Object createInstanceWithContext(
+            XComponentContext xContext )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception
+        {
+            Object args[];
+            switch (_nCode)
+            {
+            case 0:
+                args = new Object [] { xContext, _xRegistryKey, new Object[ 0 ] };
+                break;
+            case 1:
+                args = new Object [] { xContext, _xRegistryKey };
+                break;
+            case 2:
+                args = new Object [] { xContext, new Object[ 0 ] };
+                break;
+            case 3:
+                args = new Object [] { xContext };
+                break;
+            case 4:
+                args = new Object [] { getSMgr( xContext ), _xRegistryKey, new Object[ 0 ] };
+                break;
+            case 5:
+                args = new Object [] { getSMgr( xContext ), _xRegistryKey };
+                break;
+            case 6:
+                args = new Object [] { getSMgr( xContext ), new Object[ 0 ] };
+                break;
+            case 7:
+                args = new Object [] { getSMgr( xContext ) };
+                break;
+            case 8:
+                args = new Object [] { new Object[ 0 ] };
+                break;
+            default:
+                args = new Object [ 0 ];
+                break;
+            }
+
+            try {
+                return _constructor.newInstance( args );
+            } catch (InvocationTargetException invocationTargetException) {
+                Throwable targetException = invocationTargetException.getCause();
+
+                if (targetException instanceof java.lang.RuntimeException)
+                    throw (java.lang.RuntimeException)targetException;
+                else if (targetException instanceof com.sun.star.uno.Exception)
+                    throw (com.sun.star.uno.Exception)targetException;
+                else if (targetException instanceof com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException)
+                    throw (com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException)targetException;
+                else
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception( targetException );
+            } catch (IllegalAccessException illegalAccessException) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception( illegalAccessException );
+            } catch (InstantiationException instantiationException) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception( instantiationException );
+            }
+        }
+
+        public Object createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext(
+            Object rArguments[], XComponentContext xContext )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception
+        {
+            Object args[];
+
+            boolean bInitCall = true;
+            switch (_nCode)
+            {
+            case 0:
+                args = new Object [] { xContext, _xRegistryKey, rArguments };
+                bInitCall = false;
+                break;
+            case 1:
+                args = new Object [] { xContext, _xRegistryKey };
+                break;
+            case 2:
+                args = new Object [] { xContext, rArguments };
+                bInitCall = false;
+                break;
+            case 3:
+                args = new Object [] { xContext };
+                break;
+            case 4:
+                args = new Object [] { getSMgr( xContext ), _xRegistryKey, rArguments };
+                bInitCall = false;
+                break;
+            case 5:
+                args = new Object [] { getSMgr( xContext ), _xRegistryKey };
+                break;
+            case 6:
+                args = new Object [] { getSMgr( xContext ), rArguments };
+                bInitCall = false;
+                break;
+            case 7:
+                args = new Object [] { getSMgr( xContext ) };
+                break;
+            case 8:
+                args = new Object [] { rArguments };
+                bInitCall = false;
+                break;
+            default:
+                args = new Object [ 0 ];
+                break;
+            }
+
+            try {
+                Object instance = _constructor.newInstance( args );
+                if (bInitCall)
+                {
+                    XInitialization xInitialization = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XInitialization.class, instance );
+                    if (xInitialization != null)
+                    {
+                        xInitialization.initialize( rArguments );
+                    }
+                }
+                return instance;
+            } catch (InvocationTargetException invocationTargetException) {
+                Throwable targetException = invocationTargetException.getCause();
+
+                if (targetException instanceof java.lang.RuntimeException)
+                    throw (java.lang.RuntimeException)targetException;
+                else if (targetException instanceof com.sun.star.uno.Exception)
+                    throw (com.sun.star.uno.Exception)targetException;
+                else if (targetException instanceof com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException)
+                    throw (com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException)targetException;
+                else
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception( targetException );
+            } catch (IllegalAccessException illegalAccessException) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception( illegalAccessException );
+            } catch (InstantiationException instantiationException) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception( instantiationException );
+            }
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Creates an instance of the desired service.
+         *
+         * @return  returns an instance of the desired service.
+         * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory
+         */
+        public Object createInstance()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception,
+                   com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+        {
+            return createInstanceWithContext( null );
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Creates an instance of the desired service.
+         *
+         * @param   args the args given to the constructor of the service.
+         * @return  returns an instance of the desired service.
+         *
+         * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory
+         */
+        public Object createInstanceWithArguments(Object[] args)
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception,
+                   com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+        {
+            return createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext( args, null );
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Gives the supported services.
+         *
+         * @return  returns an array of supported services.
+         * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+         */
+        public String[] getSupportedServiceNames() throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+            return new String[]{_serviceName};
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Gives the implementation name.
+         *
+         * @return  returns the implementation name.
+         * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+         */
+        public String getImplementationName() throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+            return _implName;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Indicates if the given service is supported.
+         *
+         * @return  returns true if the given service is supported.
+         * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+         */
+        public boolean supportsService(String serviceName) throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+            String services[] = getSupportedServiceNames();
+
+            boolean found = false;
+
+            for(int i = 0; i < services.length && !found; ++i)
+                found = services[i].equals(serviceName);
+
+            return found;
+        }
+
+        //XTypeProvider
+        public byte[] getImplementationId()
+        {
+            return new byte[0];
+        }
+        //XTypeProvider
+        public com.sun.star.uno.Type[] getTypes()
+        {
+            Type[] t = new Type[] {
+                new Type(XSingleServiceFactory.class),
+                new Type(XSingleComponentFactory.class),
+                new Type(XServiceInfo.class),
+                new Type(XTypeProvider.class)
+            };
+            return t;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a factory for the given class.
+     *
+     * @param   implClass     the implementing class.
+     * @param   multiFactory  the given multi service factory (service manager).
+     * @param   regKey        the given registry key.
+     * @return  returns a factory.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     * @deprecated as of UDK 1.0
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory getServiceFactory(Class<?> implClass,
+                                                          XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory,
+                                                          XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        XSingleServiceFactory xSingleServiceFactory = null;
+
+        try {
+            Field serviceName  ;
+
+            try {
+                serviceName = implClass.getField("__serviceName");
+            } catch(NoSuchFieldException noSuchFieldExceptio) {
+                serviceName = implClass.getField("serviceName");  // old style
+            }
+
+            xSingleServiceFactory =  new Factory(implClass, (String)serviceName.get(null), multiFactory, regKey);
+        } catch(NoSuchFieldException noSuchFieldException) {
+            System.err.println("##### FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory - exception:" + noSuchFieldException);
+        } catch(IllegalAccessException illegalAccessException) {
+            System.err.println("##### FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory - exception:" + illegalAccessException);
+        }
+
+        return xSingleServiceFactory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a factory for the given class.
+     *
+     * @param   implClass     the implementing class.
+     * @param   serviceName   the service name of the implementing class.
+     * @param   multiFactory  the given multi service factory (service manager).
+     * @param   regKey        the given registry key.
+     *
+     * @return  returns a factory.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory getServiceFactory(Class<?> implClass,
+                                                          String serviceName,
+                                                          XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory,
+                                                          XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        return new Factory(implClass, serviceName, multiFactory, regKey);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a factory for the given class.
+     *
+     * @param  implClass the implementing class.
+     * @return returns a factory object.
+     */
+    public static Object createComponentFactory( Class<?> implClass, String serviceName )
+    {
+        return new Factory( implClass, serviceName, null, null );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Writes the registration data into the registry key.
+     *
+     * @param   implName      the name of the implementing class.
+     * @param   serviceName   the service name.
+     * @param   regKey        the given registry key.
+     * @return  success.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public static boolean writeRegistryServiceInfo(String implName, String serviceName, XRegistryKey regKey) {
+        boolean result = false;
+
+          try {
+            XRegistryKey newKey = regKey.createKey("/" + implName + "/UNO/SERVICES");
+
+            newKey.createKey(serviceName);
+
+            result = true;
+          }
+          catch (Exception ex) {
+              System.err.println(">>>Connection_Impl.writeRegistryServiceInfo " + ex);
+          }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Writes the registration data into the registry key.
+     *
+     * <p>Several services are supported.</p>
+     *
+     * @param impl_name name of implementation.
+     * @param supported_services supported services of implementation.
+     * @param xKey registry key to write to.
+     * @return success.
+     */
+    public static boolean writeRegistryServiceInfo(
+        String impl_name, String supported_services [], XRegistryKey xKey )
+    {
+        try {
+            XRegistryKey xNewKey = xKey.createKey( "/" + impl_name + "/UNO/SERVICES" );
+            for ( int nPos = 0; nPos < supported_services.length; ++nPos ) {
+                xNewKey.createKey( supported_services[ nPos ] );
+            }
+            return true;
+        } catch (com.sun.star.registry.InvalidRegistryException exc) {
+            if (DEBUG) {
+                System.err.println(
+                    "##### " + Factory.class.getName() + ".writeRegistryServiceInfo -- exc: " +
+                    exc.toString() );
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/JavaLoader.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/JavaLoader.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..42dee0da5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/JavaLoader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,439 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.loader;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
+
+import com.sun.star.loader.CannotActivateFactoryException;
+import com.sun.star.loader.XImplementationLoader;
+
+import com.sun.star.registry.CannotRegisterImplementationException;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XInitialization;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet;
+import com.sun.star.util.XMacroExpander;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.util.StringHelper;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.AnyConverter;
+
+
+/**
+ * The <code>JavaLoader</code> class provides the functionality of the
+ * <code>com.sun.star.loader.Java</code> service.
+ *
+ * <p>Therefore the <code>JavaLoader</code> activates external UNO components
+ * which are implemented in Java.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>The loader is used by the <code>ServiceManager</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.loader.XImplementationLoader
+ * @see         com.sun.star.loader.Java
+ * @see         com.sun.star.comp.servicemanager.ServiceManager
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class JavaLoader implements XImplementationLoader,
+                                   XServiceInfo,
+                                   XInitialization
+{
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    private static final void DEBUG(String dbg) {
+        if (DEBUG) System.err.println( dbg );
+    }
+
+    private static String[] supportedServices = {
+        "com.sun.star.loader.Java"
+    };
+
+    protected XMultiServiceFactory multiServiceFactory = null;
+
+    private XMacroExpander m_xMacroExpander = null;
+    private static final String EXPAND_PROTOCOL_PREFIX = "vnd.sun.star.expand:";
+
+    /**
+     * Expands macrofied url using the macro expander singleton.
+     */
+    private String expand_url( String url ) throws RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (url == null || !url.startsWith( EXPAND_PROTOCOL_PREFIX )) {
+            return url;
+        }
+        try {
+            if (m_xMacroExpander == null) {
+                XPropertySet xProps =
+                    UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XPropertySet.class, multiServiceFactory );
+                if (xProps == null) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(
+                        "service manager does not support XPropertySet!",
+                        this );
+                }
+                XComponentContext xContext = (XComponentContext)
+                    AnyConverter.toObject(
+                        new Type( XComponentContext.class ),
+                        xProps.getPropertyValue( "DefaultContext" ) );
+                m_xMacroExpander = (XMacroExpander)AnyConverter.toObject(
+                    new Type( XMacroExpander.class ),
+                    xContext.getValueByName(
+                        "/singletons/com.sun.star.util.theMacroExpander" )
+                    );
+            }
+            // decode uric class chars
+            String macro = URLDecoder.decode(
+                StringHelper.replace(
+                    url.substring( EXPAND_PROTOCOL_PREFIX.length() ),
+                    '+', "%2B" ), "UTF-8" );
+            // expand macro string
+            String ret = m_xMacroExpander.expandMacros( macro );
+            if (DEBUG) {
+                System.err.println(
+                    "JavaLoader.expand_url(): " + url + " => " +
+                    macro + " => " + ret );
+            }
+            return ret;
+        } catch (com.sun.star.uno.Exception exc) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(exc,
+                exc.getMessage(), this );
+        } catch (java.lang.Exception exc) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(exc,
+                exc.getMessage(), this );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Default constructor.
+     *
+     * <p>Creates a new instance of the <code>JavaLoader</code> class.</p>
+     */
+    public JavaLoader() {}
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new <code>JavaLoader</code> object.
+     *
+     * <p>The specified <code>com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory</code> is
+     * the <code>ServiceManager</code> service which can be delivered to all
+     * components the <code>JavaLoader</code> is loading.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>To set the <code>MultiServiceFactory</code> you can use the
+     * <code>com.sun.star.lang.XInitialization</code> interface, either.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   factory     the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.comp.servicemanager.ServiceManager
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XInitialization
+     */
+    public JavaLoader(XMultiServiceFactory factory) {
+        multiServiceFactory = factory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Unlike the original intention, the method could be called every time a
+     * new <code>com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory</code> should be set at
+     * the loader.
+     *
+     * @param       args - the first parameter (args[0]) specifies the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XInitialization
+     * @see         com.sun.star.comp.servicemanager.ServiceManager
+     */
+    public void initialize( java.lang.Object[] args )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception,
+                   com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (args.length == 0)
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException("No arguments specified");
+
+        try {
+            multiServiceFactory = (XMultiServiceFactory) AnyConverter.toObject(
+                new Type(XMultiServiceFactory.class), args[0]);
+        } catch (ClassCastException castEx) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(castEx,
+                "The argument must be an instance of XMultiServiceFactory");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Supplies the implementation name of the component.
+     *
+     * @return      the implementation name - here the class name.
+     * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public String getImplementationName()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return getClass().getName();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Verifies if a given service is supported by the component.
+     *
+     * @param       serviceName     the name of the service that should be checked.
+     * @return      true,if service is supported - otherwise false.
+     *
+     * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public boolean supportsService(String serviceName)
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        for (String supportedService : supportedServices) {
+            if (supportedService.equals(serviceName)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Supplies a list of all service names supported by the component.
+     *
+     * @return      a String array with all supported services.
+     * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public String[] getSupportedServiceNames()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return supportedServices;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Provides a components factory.
+     *
+     * <p>The <code>JavaLoader</code> tries to load the class first. If a
+     * location URL is given the RegistrationClassFinder is used to load the
+     * class. Otherwise the class is loaded through the Class.forName method.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>To get the factory the inspects the class for the optional static member
+     * functions __getServiceFactory resp. getServiceFactory (DEPRECATED).</p>
+     *
+     * @param       implementationName          the implementation (class) name of the component.
+     * @param       implementationLoaderUrl     the URL of the implementation loader. Not used.
+     * @param       locationUrl                 points to an archive (JAR file) which contains a component.
+     * @param       xKey                        registry key.
+     * @return      the factory for the component (@see com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory)
+     *
+     * @see         com.sun.star.loader.XImplementationLoader
+     * @see         com.sun.star.comp.loader.RegistrationClassFinder
+     */
+    public java.lang.Object activate( String implementationName,
+                                      String implementationLoaderUrl,
+                                      String locationUrl,
+                                      XRegistryKey xKey )
+        throws CannotActivateFactoryException,
+               com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        locationUrl = expand_url( locationUrl );
+
+        Object returnObject  = null;
+        Class<?> clazz  ;
+
+        DEBUG("try to get factory for " + implementationName);
+
+        // First we must get the class of the implementation
+        // 1. If a location URL is given it is assumed that this points to a JAR file.
+        //    The components class name is stored in the manifest file.
+        // 2. If only the implementation name is given, the class is loaded with the
+        //    Class.forName() method. This is a hack to load bootstrap components.
+        //    Normally a string must no be null.
+        try {
+            if ( locationUrl != null ) {
+                clazz = RegistrationClassFinder.find( locationUrl );
+                if (clazz == null) {
+                    throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(
+                        "Cannot activate jar " + locationUrl);
+                }
+            } else {
+                clazz = Class.forName( implementationName );
+                if (clazz == null) {
+                    throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(
+                        "Cannot find class " + implementationName);
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (java.net.MalformedURLException e) {
+            throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(e, "Can not activate factory because " + e);
+        } catch (java.io.IOException e) {
+            throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(e, "Can not activate factory because " + e);
+        } catch (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(e, "Can not activate factory because " + e);
+        }
+
+        Class<?>[] paramTypes = {String.class, XMultiServiceFactory.class, XRegistryKey.class};
+        Object[] params = { implementationName, multiServiceFactory, xKey };
+
+        // try to get factory from implementation class
+        // latest style: use the public static method __getComponentFactory
+        // - new style: use the public static method __getServiceFactory
+        // - old style: use the public static method getServiceFactory ( DEPRECATED )
+
+        Method compfac_method = null;
+        try {
+             compfac_method = clazz.getMethod(
+                "__getComponentFactory", new Class [] { String.class } );
+        } catch ( NoSuchMethodException noSuchMethodEx) {
+        } catch ( SecurityException secEx) {
+        }
+
+        Method method = null;
+        if (null == compfac_method) {
+            try {
+                method = clazz.getMethod("__getServiceFactory", paramTypes);
+            } catch ( NoSuchMethodException noSuchMethodEx) {
+            } catch ( SecurityException secEx) {
+            }
+        }
+
+        try {
+            if (null != compfac_method) {
+                Object ret = compfac_method.invoke( clazz, new Object [] { implementationName } );
+                if (!(ret instanceof XSingleComponentFactory))
+                    throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(
+                        "No factory object for " + implementationName );
+
+                return ret;
+            }
+            else {
+                if ( method == null )
+                    method = clazz.getMethod("getServiceFactory", paramTypes);
+
+                Object oRet = method.invoke(clazz, params);
+
+                if ( (oRet != null) && (oRet instanceof XSingleServiceFactory) )
+                    returnObject = oRet;
+            }
+        } catch ( NoSuchMethodException e) {
+            throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(e, "Can not activate the factory for "
+                        + implementationName);
+        } catch ( SecurityException e) {
+            throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(e, "Can not activate the factory for "
+                        + implementationName);
+        } catch ( IllegalAccessException e ) {
+            throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(e, "Can not activate the factory for "
+                        + implementationName);
+        }
+        catch ( IllegalArgumentException e ) {
+            throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(e, "Can not activate the factory for "
+                        + implementationName);
+        } catch ( InvocationTargetException e ) {
+            throw new CannotActivateFactoryException(e, "Can not activate the factory for "
+                        + implementationName);
+        }
+
+        return returnObject;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Registers the component in a registry under a given root key.
+     *
+     * <p>If the component supports the optional
+     * methods __writeRegistryServiceInfo, writeRegistryServiceInfo (DEPRECATED),
+     * the call is delegated to that method. Otherwise a default registration
+     * will be accomplished.</p>
+     *
+     * @param       regKey                  the root key under that the component should be registered.
+     * @param       implementationLoaderUrl specifies the loader, the component is loaded by.
+     * @param       locationUrl             points to an archive (JAR file) which contains a component.
+     * @return      true if registration is successfully - otherwise false.
+     */
+    public boolean writeRegistryInfo( XRegistryKey regKey,
+                                      String implementationLoaderUrl,
+                                      String locationUrl )
+            throws CannotRegisterImplementationException,
+                   com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        locationUrl = expand_url( locationUrl );
+
+        boolean success = false;
+
+        try {
+
+            Class<?> clazz = RegistrationClassFinder.find(locationUrl);
+            if (null == clazz)
+                throw new CannotRegisterImplementationException(
+                    "Cannot determine registration class!" );
+
+            Class<?>[] paramTypes = { XRegistryKey.class };
+            Object[] params = { regKey };
+
+            Method method  = clazz.getMethod("__writeRegistryServiceInfo", paramTypes);
+            Object oRet = method.invoke(clazz, params);
+
+            if ( (oRet != null) && (oRet instanceof Boolean) )
+                success = ((Boolean) oRet).booleanValue();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new CannotRegisterImplementationException(e, e.toString());
+         }
+
+        return success;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Supplies the factory for the <code>JavaLoader</code>.
+     *
+     * @param   implName        the name of the desired component.
+     * @param   multiFactory    the <code>ServiceManager</code> is delivered to the factory.
+     * @param   regKey          not used - can be null.
+     * @return  the factory for the <code>JavaLoader</code>.
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory getServiceFactory( String implName,
+                                                           XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory,
+                                                           XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        if ( implName.equals(JavaLoader.class.getName()) )
+            return new JavaLoaderFactory( multiFactory );
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Registers the <code>JavaLoader</code> at the registry.
+     *
+     * @param      regKey   root key under which the <code>JavaLoader</code> should be registered.
+     * @return     true if registration succeeded - otherwise false.
+     */
+    public static boolean writeRegistryServiceInfo(XRegistryKey regKey) {
+        boolean result = false;
+
+        try {
+            XRegistryKey newKey = regKey.createKey("/" + JavaLoader.class.getName() + "/UNO/SERVICE");
+
+            for (String supportedService : supportedServices) {
+                newKey.createKey(supportedService);
+            }
+
+            result = true;
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            if (DEBUG) System.err.println(">>>JavaLoader.writeRegistryServiceInfo " + ex);
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/JavaLoaderFactory.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/JavaLoaderFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..edf4f7a3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/JavaLoaderFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.loader;
+
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo;
+
+
+public class JavaLoaderFactory implements XSingleServiceFactory, XServiceInfo {
+
+    private static String[] supportedServices = {
+        "com.sun.star.loader.Java",
+        "com.sun.star.loader.Java2"
+    };
+
+    protected XMultiServiceFactory multiServiceFactory = null;
+
+    public JavaLoaderFactory(XMultiServiceFactory factory) {
+        multiServiceFactory = factory;
+    }
+
+    public java.lang.Object createInstance()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception,
+                   com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return new JavaLoader(multiServiceFactory);
+    }
+
+    public java.lang.Object createInstanceWithArguments( java.lang.Object[] args )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception,
+                   com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        JavaLoader loader = new JavaLoader();
+        loader.initialize(args);
+
+        return loader;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Implements the XServiceInfo interface.
+     */
+    public String getImplementationName()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return JavaLoader.class.getName();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Implements the XServiceInfo interface.
+     */
+    public boolean supportsService(String serviceName)
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        for (String supportedService : supportedServices) {
+            if (supportedService.equals(serviceName)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Implements the XServiceInfo interface.
+     */
+    public String[] getSupportedServiceNames()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return supportedServices;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/RegistrationClassFinder.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/RegistrationClassFinder.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7679da16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/loader/RegistrationClassFinder.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.loader;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.unoloader.UnoClassLoader;
+import com.sun.star.lib.util.WeakMap;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
+import java.util.jar.Attributes;
+
+final class RegistrationClassFinder {
+    public static Class<?> find(String locationUrl)
+        throws ClassNotFoundException, IOException
+    {
+        synchronized (map) {
+            Class<?> c = (Class<?>) WeakMap.getValue(map.get(locationUrl));
+            if (c != null) {
+                return c;
+            }
+        }
+        URL url = new URL(locationUrl);
+        Attributes attr = UnoClassLoader.getJarMainAttributes(url);
+        String name = attr == null
+            ? null : attr.getValue("RegistrationClassName");
+        if (name == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        ClassLoader cl1 = RegistrationClassFinder.class.getClassLoader();
+        ClassLoader cl2;
+        if (cl1 instanceof UnoClassLoader) {
+            cl2 = ((UnoClassLoader) cl1).getClassLoader(url, attr);
+        } else {
+            cl2 = URLClassLoader.newInstance(new URL[] { url }, cl1);
+        }
+        Class<?> c = cl2.loadClass(name);
+        synchronized (map) {
+            Class<?> c2 = (Class<?>) WeakMap.getValue(map.get(locationUrl));
+            if (c2 != null) {
+                return c2;
+            }
+            map.put(locationUrl, c);
+        }
+        return c;
+    }
+
+    private RegistrationClassFinder() {} // do not instantiate
+
+    private static final WeakMap map = new WeakMap();
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/servicemanager/ServiceManager.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/servicemanager/ServiceManager.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..574983f1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/servicemanager/ServiceManager.java
@@ -0,0 +1,662 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.servicemanager;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+
+import com.sun.star.container.XContentEnumerationAccess;
+import com.sun.star.container.XEnumeration;
+import com.sun.star.container.XSet;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XComponent;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XEventListener;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiComponentFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;
+
+/**
+ * The <code>ServiceManager</code> class is an implementation of the
+ * <code>ServiceManager</code>the central class needed for implementing or using
+ * UNO components in Java.
+ *
+ * <p>The Methods <code>queryInterface</code> and <code>isSame</code> delegate
+ * calls to the implementing objects and are used instead of casts and identity
+ * comparisons.</p>
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory
+ * @see         com.sun.star.container.XSet
+ * @see         com.sun.star.container.XContentEnumerationAccess
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XComponent
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class ServiceManager implements XMultiServiceFactory,
+                                       XMultiComponentFactory,
+                                       XSet,
+                                       XContentEnumerationAccess,
+                                       XComponent,
+                                       XServiceInfo
+{
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    private static final void DEBUG (String dbg) {
+        if (DEBUG) System.err.println( dbg );
+    }
+
+    private static com.sun.star.uno.Type UNO_TYPE = null;
+
+    static String[] supportedServiceNames = {
+            "com.sun.star.lang.MultiServiceFactory",
+            "com.sun.star.lang.ServiceManager"
+    };
+
+    ArrayList<XEventListener>    eventListener;
+    java.util.HashMap<String, Object> factoriesByImplNames;
+    java.util.HashMap<String, ArrayList<Object>> factoriesByServiceNames;  // keys:
+
+    private com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext m_xDefaultContext;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new instance of the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     */
+    public ServiceManager() {
+        eventListener           = new ArrayList<XEventListener>();
+        factoriesByImplNames    = new java.util.HashMap<String, Object>();
+        factoriesByServiceNames = new java.util.HashMap<String, ArrayList<Object>>();
+        m_xDefaultContext = null;
+    }
+
+    public void setDefaultContext(XComponentContext context) {
+        m_xDefaultContext = context;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new instance of a specified service.
+     *
+     * <p>Therefore the associated factory of the service is looked up and used
+     * to instantiate a new component. </p>
+     *
+     * @param   serviceSpecifier    indicates the service or component name.
+     * @return  newly created component.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory
+     */
+    public java.lang.Object createInstance( String serviceSpecifier )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception,
+                   com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return createInstanceWithContext( serviceSpecifier, m_xDefaultContext );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new instance of a specified service with the given parameters.
+     *
+     * <p>Therefore the associated factory of the service is  looked up and used
+     * to instantiate a new component.</p>
+     *
+     * @return  newly created component.
+     * @param   serviceSpecifier    indicates the service or component name.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory
+     */
+    public java.lang.Object createInstanceWithArguments(
+        String serviceSpecifier, Object[] args )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (DEBUG) {
+            System.err.println("createInstanceWithArguments:" );
+
+            for (Object arg : args) {
+                System.err.print(" " + arg);
+            }
+
+            System.err.println();
+        }
+
+        return createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext( serviceSpecifier, args, m_xDefaultContext );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Look up the factory for a given service or implementation name.
+     *
+     * <p>First the requested service name is search in the list of available
+     * services. If it can not be found the name is looked up in the implementation
+     * list.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   serviceName    indicates the service or implementation name.
+     * @return  the factory of the service / implementation.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory
+     */
+    private Object queryServiceFactory(String serviceName)
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception,
+                   com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        DEBUG("queryServiceFactory for name " + serviceName );
+        Object factory = null;
+
+        if ( factoriesByServiceNames.containsKey( serviceName ) ) {
+            ArrayList<Object> availableFact = factoriesByServiceNames.get( serviceName );
+
+            DEBUG("");
+            DEBUG("available factories for " + serviceName +" "+ availableFact);
+            DEBUG("");
+
+            if ( !availableFact.isEmpty() )
+                factory = availableFact.get(availableFact.size()-1);
+
+        } else // not found in list of services - now try the implementations
+            factory = factoriesByImplNames.get( serviceName ); // return null if none is available
+
+        if (DEBUG) {
+            if (factory == null) System.err.println("service not registered");
+            else
+                System.err.println("service found:" + factory + " " + UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XSingleServiceFactory.class, factory));
+        }
+
+        if (factory == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception("Query for service factory for " + serviceName + " failed.");
+
+        return factory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Supplies a list of all available services names.
+     *
+     * @return  list of Strings of all service names.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.container.XContentEnumerationAccess
+     */
+    public String[] getAvailableServiceNames()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        try{
+            return factoriesByServiceNames.keySet().toArray(
+                new String[ factoriesByServiceNames.size() ] );
+        } catch(Exception ex) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(ex);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // XMultiComponentFactory implementation
+
+    /** Create a service instance with given context.
+     *
+     * @param rServiceSpecifier service name.
+     * @param xContext context.
+     * @return service instance.
+     */
+    public java.lang.Object createInstanceWithContext(
+        String rServiceSpecifier,
+        com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext xContext )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception
+    {
+        Object fac = queryServiceFactory( rServiceSpecifier );
+        if (fac != null)
+        {
+            XSingleComponentFactory xCompFac = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                XSingleComponentFactory.class, fac );
+            if (xCompFac != null)
+            {
+                return xCompFac.createInstanceWithContext( xContext );
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                XSingleServiceFactory xServiceFac = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XSingleServiceFactory.class, fac );
+                if (xServiceFac != null)
+                {
+                    if (DEBUG)
+                        System.err.println( "### ignoring context raising service \"" + rServiceSpecifier + "\"!" );
+                    return xServiceFac.createInstance();
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception(
+                        "retrieved service factory object for \"" + rServiceSpecifier +
+                        "\" does not export XSingleComponentFactory nor XSingleServiceFactory!" );
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+    /**
+     * Create a service instance with given context and arguments.
+     *
+     * @param rServiceSpecifier service name.
+     * @param rArguments arguments.
+     * @param xContext context.
+     * @return service instance.
+     */
+    public java.lang.Object createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext(
+        String rServiceSpecifier,
+        java.lang.Object[] rArguments,
+        com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext xContext )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception
+    {
+        Object fac = queryServiceFactory( rServiceSpecifier );
+        if (fac != null)
+        {
+            XSingleComponentFactory xCompFac = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                XSingleComponentFactory.class, fac );
+            if (xCompFac != null)
+            {
+                return xCompFac.createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext( rArguments, xContext );
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                XSingleServiceFactory xServiceFac = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XSingleServiceFactory.class, fac );
+                if (xServiceFac != null)
+                {
+                    if (DEBUG)
+                        System.err.println( "### ignoring context raising service \"" + rServiceSpecifier + "\"!" );
+                    return xServiceFac.createInstanceWithArguments( rArguments );
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception(
+                        "retrieved service factory object for \"" + rServiceSpecifier +
+                        "\" does not export XSingleComponentFactory nor XSingleServiceFactory!" );
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Removes all listeners from the <code>ServiceManager</code> and clears the
+     * list of the services.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.lang.XComponent
+     */
+    public void dispose()
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (eventListener != null) {
+            for (XEventListener listener : eventListener) {
+                listener.disposing(new com.sun.star.lang.EventObject(this));
+            }
+            eventListener.clear();
+        }
+
+        factoriesByServiceNames.clear();
+        factoriesByImplNames.clear();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Adds a new <code>EventListener</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>The listener is notified when a service is added (removed) to (from)
+     * the <code>ServiceManager</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>If the listener is already registered a
+     * <code>com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException</code> will be thrown.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   xListener   the new listener which should been added.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XComponent
+     */
+    public void addEventListener( XEventListener xListener )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (xListener == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException("Listener must not be null");
+
+          if ( eventListener.contains(xListener) )
+              throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException("Listener already registered.");
+
+           eventListener.add(xListener);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Removes a <code>EventListener</code> from the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>If the listener is not registered a <code>com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException</code>
+     * will be thrown.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   xListener   the new listener which should been removed.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XComponent
+     */
+    public void removeEventListener( XEventListener xListener )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (xListener == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException("Listener must not be null");
+
+          if ( !eventListener.contains(xListener) )
+              throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException("Listener is not registered.");
+
+        eventListener.remove(xListener);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if a component is registered at the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>The given object argument must provide a <code>XServiceInfo</code>
+     * interface.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   object object which provides a <code>XServiceInfo</code> interface.
+     * @return  true if the component is registered otherwise false.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.container.XSet
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public boolean has( Object object )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (object == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException("The parameter must not been null");
+
+        XServiceInfo xServiceInfo = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XServiceInfo.class, object);
+
+        return xServiceInfo != null && UnoRuntime.areSame(factoriesByImplNames.get(xServiceInfo.getImplementationName()), object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Adds a <code>SingleServiceFactory</code> to the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     *
+     * @param   object  factory which should be added.
+     * @see com.sun.star.container.XSet
+     * @see com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory
+     */
+    public void insert( Object object )
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException,
+               com.sun.star.container.ElementExistException,
+               com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (object == null) throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException();
+
+        XServiceInfo xServiceInfo =
+                UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XServiceInfo.class, object);
+
+        if (xServiceInfo == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                "The given object does not implement the XServiceInfo interface."
+            );
+
+        if ( factoriesByImplNames.containsKey( xServiceInfo.getImplementationName() ) ) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.container.ElementExistException(
+                xServiceInfo.getImplementationName() + " already registered"
+            );
+        }
+
+        DEBUG("add factory " + object.toString() + " for " + xServiceInfo.getImplementationName());
+        factoriesByImplNames.put( xServiceInfo.getImplementationName(), object );
+
+
+        String[] serviceNames = xServiceInfo.getSupportedServiceNames();
+        ArrayList<Object> vec  ;
+
+        for (String serviceName : serviceNames) {
+            if (!factoriesByServiceNames.containsKey(serviceName)) {
+                DEBUG("> no registered services found under " + serviceName + ": adding...");
+                factoriesByServiceNames.put(serviceName, new ArrayList<Object>());
+            }
+            vec = factoriesByServiceNames.get(serviceName);
+            if (vec.contains( object )) {
+                System.err.println("The implementation " + xServiceInfo.getImplementationName() +
+                        " already registered for the service " + serviceName + " - ignoring!");
+            } else {
+                vec.add(object);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Removes a <code>SingleServiceFactory</code> from the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     *
+     * @param   object  factory which should be removed.
+     * @see com.sun.star.container.XSet
+     * @see com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory
+     */
+    public void remove( Object object )
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException,
+               com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException,
+               com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (object == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "The given object must not be null."
+            );
+
+        XServiceInfo xServiceInfo =
+            UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XServiceInfo.class, object);
+
+        if (xServiceInfo == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "The given object does not implement the XServiceInfo interface."
+            );
+
+        XSingleServiceFactory xSingleServiceFactory =
+            UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XSingleServiceFactory.class, object);
+
+        if (xSingleServiceFactory == null)
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "The given object does not implement the XSingleServiceFactory interface."
+            );
+
+        if ( factoriesByImplNames.remove( xServiceInfo.getImplementationName() ) == null )
+            throw new com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException(
+                    xServiceInfo.getImplementationName() +
+                    " is not registered as an implementation."
+            );
+
+        String[] serviceNames = xServiceInfo.getSupportedServiceNames();
+
+        for (String serviceName : serviceNames) {
+            if (factoriesByServiceNames.containsKey(serviceName)) {
+                ArrayList<Object> vec = factoriesByServiceNames.get(serviceName);
+                if (!vec.remove(object)) {
+                    System.err.println("The implementation " + xServiceInfo.getImplementationName() +
+                            " is not registered for the service " + serviceName + " - ignoring!");
+                }
+                // remove the vector if no implementations available for the service
+                if (vec.isEmpty()) {
+                    factoriesByServiceNames.remove(serviceName);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Provides an enumeration of all registered services.
+     *
+     * @return  an enumeration of all available services.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.container.XEnumerationAccess
+     */
+    public XEnumeration createEnumeration()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return new ServiceEnumerationImpl( factoriesByImplNames.values().iterator() );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Provides the UNO type of the <code>ServiceManager</code>
+     *
+     * @return  the UNO type of the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.container.XElementAccess
+     * @see     com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass
+     */
+    public com.sun.star.uno.Type getElementType()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if ( UNO_TYPE == null )
+            UNO_TYPE = new com.sun.star.uno.Type(ServiceManager.class);
+
+        return UNO_TYPE;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any components are registered.
+     *
+     * @return  true - if the list of the registered components is not empty - otherwise false.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.container.XElementAccess
+     */
+    public boolean hasElements() {
+        return ! factoriesByImplNames.isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Provides an enumeration of all factories for a specified service.
+     *
+     * @param   serviceName     name of the requested service.
+     * @return  an enumeration for service name.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.container.XContentEnumerationAccess
+     */
+    public XEnumeration createContentEnumeration( String serviceName )
+                throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        XEnumeration enumer  ;
+
+        ArrayList<Object> serviceList = factoriesByServiceNames.get(serviceName);
+
+        if (serviceList != null)
+            enumer = new ServiceEnumerationImpl( serviceList.iterator() );
+        else
+            enumer = new ServiceEnumerationImpl();
+
+        return enumer;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the implementation name of the <code>ServiceManager</code> component.
+     *
+     * @return  the class name of the <code>ServiceManager</code>.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public String getImplementationName()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return getClass().getName();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the <code>ServiceManager</code> supports a service.
+     *
+     * @param   serviceName service name which should be checked.
+     * @return  true if the service is supported - otherwise false.
+     *
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public boolean supportsService( String serviceName )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        for (String supportedServiceName : supportedServiceNames) {
+            if (supportedServiceName.equals(serviceName)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return getImplementationName().equals(serviceName);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Supplies list of all supported services.
+     *
+     * @return  a list of all supported service names.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     */
+    public String[] getSupportedServiceNames()
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return supportedServiceNames;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The <code>ServiceEnumerationImpl</code> class provides an
+     * implementation of the @see com.sun.star.container.XEnumeration interface.
+     *
+     * <p>It is an inner wrapper for a java.util.Enumeration object.</p>
+     *
+     * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory
+     * @see         com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+     * @since       UDK1.0
+     */
+    static class ServiceEnumerationImpl implements XEnumeration {
+        java.util.Iterator<Object> enumeration = null;
+
+        /**
+         * Constructs a new empty instance.
+         */
+        public ServiceEnumerationImpl() {
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Constructs a new instance with a given enumeration.
+         *
+         * @param   enumer  is the enumeration which should been wrapped.
+         * @see     com.sun.star.container.XEnumeration
+         */
+        public ServiceEnumerationImpl(java.util.Enumeration<Object> enumer) {
+            enumeration = Collections.list(enumer).iterator();
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Constructs a new instance with a given enumeration.
+         *
+         * @param   enumer  is the enumeration which should been wrapped.
+         * @see     com.sun.star.container.XEnumeration
+         */
+        public ServiceEnumerationImpl(java.util.Iterator<Object> enumer) {
+            enumeration = enumer;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Checks if the enumeration contains more elements.
+         *
+         * @return  true if more elements are available - otherwise false.
+         * @see     com.sun.star.container.XEnumeration
+         */
+        public boolean hasMoreElements()
+                throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+        {
+            return enumeration != null && enumeration.hasNext();
+
+            }
+
+        /**
+         * Returns the next element of the enumeration.
+         *
+         * <p>If no further elements available a com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException
+         * exception will be thrown.</p>
+         *
+         * @return  the next element.
+         * @see     com.sun.star.container.XEnumeration
+         */
+        public Object nextElement()
+                throws com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException,
+                       com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetException,
+                       com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+        {
+            if (enumeration == null)
+                throw new com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException();
+
+            try {
+                return enumeration.next();
+            } catch (java.util.NoSuchElementException e) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException(e, e.toString());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/urlresolver/UrlResolver.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/urlresolver/UrlResolver.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7585dabf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/comp/urlresolver/UrlResolver.java
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.comp.urlresolver;
+
+
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XBridgeFactory;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XUnoUrlResolver;
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+
+import com.sun.star.connection.ConnectionSetupException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnector;
+
+import com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+
+
+/**
+ * This component gives a factory for an <code>UnoUrlResolver</code> service.
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.bridge.XBridgeFactory
+ * @see         com.sun.star.connection.Connector
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class UrlResolver {
+    public static class _UrlResolver implements XUnoUrlResolver {
+        private static final String __serviceName = "com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver";
+
+        private final XMultiServiceFactory _xMultiServiceFactory;
+
+        public _UrlResolver(XMultiServiceFactory xMultiServiceFactory) {
+            _xMultiServiceFactory = xMultiServiceFactory;
+        }
+
+        public Object resolve(/*IN*/String dcp) throws NoConnectException, ConnectionSetupException, IllegalArgumentException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+            String conDcp  ;
+            String protDcp  ;
+            String rootOid  ;
+
+            if(dcp.indexOf(';') == -1) {// use old style
+                conDcp = dcp;
+                protDcp = "iiop";
+                rootOid = "classic_uno";
+            }
+            else { // new style
+                int index = dcp.indexOf(':');
+                dcp = dcp.substring(index + 1).trim();
+
+                index = dcp.indexOf(';');
+                conDcp = dcp.substring(0, index).trim();
+                dcp = dcp.substring(index + 1).trim();
+
+                index = dcp.indexOf(';');
+                protDcp = dcp.substring(0, index).trim();
+                dcp = dcp.substring(index + 1).trim();
+
+                rootOid = dcp.trim().trim();
+            }
+
+            Object rootObject  ;
+            XBridgeFactory xBridgeFactory ;
+            try {
+                xBridgeFactory = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XBridgeFactory.class,
+                                                                          _xMultiServiceFactory.createInstance("com.sun.star.bridge.BridgeFactory"));
+            } catch (com.sun.star.uno.Exception e) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+            XBridge xBridge = xBridgeFactory.getBridge(conDcp + ";" + protDcp);
+
+            if(xBridge == null) {
+                Object connector ;
+                try {
+                    connector = _xMultiServiceFactory.createInstance("com.sun.star.connection.Connector");
+                } catch (com.sun.star.uno.Exception e) {
+                        throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+
+                XConnector connector_xConnector = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XConnector.class, connector);
+
+                // connect to the server
+                XConnection xConnection = connector_xConnector.connect(conDcp);
+                try {
+                    xBridge = xBridgeFactory.createBridge(conDcp + ";" + protDcp, protDcp, xConnection, null);
+                } catch (com.sun.star.bridge.BridgeExistsException e) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+            }
+            rootObject = xBridge.getInstance(rootOid);
+            return rootObject;
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a factory for creating the service.
+     *
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param   implName     the name of the implementation for which a service is desired.
+     * @param   multiFactory the service manager to be uses if needed.
+     * @param   regKey       the registryKey.
+     * @return  returns a <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see                  com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(String implName,
+                                                            XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory,
+                                                            XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        XSingleServiceFactory xSingleServiceFactory = null;
+
+          if (implName.equals(UrlResolver.class.getName()) )
+            xSingleServiceFactory = FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(_UrlResolver.class,
+                                                                    _UrlResolver.__serviceName,
+                                                                    multiFactory,
+                                                                    regKey);
+
+        return xSingleServiceFactory;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/PipeConnection.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/PipeConnection.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b3a686f17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/PipeConnection.java
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.connections.pipe;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.StringTokenizer;
+
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnectionBroadcaster;
+import com.sun.star.io.XStreamListener;
+import com.sun.star.lib.util.NativeLibraryLoader;
+
+/**
+ * The PipeConnection implements the <code>XConnection</code> interface
+ * and is uses by the <code>PipeConnector</code> and the <code>PipeAcceptor</code>.
+ * This class is not part of the provided <code>api</code>.
+ *
+ * The native implementation is in jurt/source/pipe/com_sun_star_lib_connections_pipe_PipeConnection.c
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.connections.pipe.pipeAcceptor
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.connections.pipe.pipeConnector
+ * @see         com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class PipeConnection implements XConnection, XConnectionBroadcaster {
+    /**
+     * When set to true, enables various debugging output.
+     */
+    public static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    static {
+        // load shared library for JNI code
+        NativeLibraryLoader.loadLibrary(PipeConnection.class.getClassLoader(), "jpipe");
+    }
+
+    protected String    _aDescription;
+    protected long      _nPipeHandle;
+    protected ArrayList<XStreamListener>    _aListeners;
+    protected boolean   _bFirstRead;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>PipeConnection</code>.
+     *
+     * @param  description   the description of the connection.
+     */
+    public PipeConnection(String description)
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        if (DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + " - instantiated " + description );
+
+        _aListeners = new ArrayList<XStreamListener>();
+        _bFirstRead = true;
+
+        // get pipe name from pipe descriptor
+        String aPipeName  ;
+        StringTokenizer aTokenizer = new StringTokenizer( description, "," );
+        if ( aTokenizer.hasMoreTokens() ) {
+            String aConnType = aTokenizer.nextToken();
+            if ( !aConnType.equals( "pipe" ) )
+                throw new RuntimeException( "invalid pipe descriptor: does not start with 'pipe,'" );
+
+            String aPipeNameParam = aTokenizer.nextToken();
+            if ( !aPipeNameParam.substring( 0, 5 ).equals( "name=" ) )
+                throw new RuntimeException( "invalid pipe descriptor: no 'name=' parameter found" );
+            aPipeName = aPipeNameParam.substring( 5 );
+        }
+        else
+            throw new RuntimeException( "invalid or empty pipe descriptor" );
+
+        // create the pipe
+        try {
+            createJNI( aPipeName );
+        } catch ( java.lang.Exception ex1 ) {
+            IOException ex2 = new IOException();
+            ex2.initCause(ex1);
+            throw ex2;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void addStreamListener(XStreamListener aListener ) throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        _aListeners.add(aListener);
+    }
+
+    public void removeStreamListener(XStreamListener aListener ) throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        _aListeners.remove(aListener);
+    }
+
+    private void notifyListeners_open() {
+        for (XStreamListener xStreamListener : _aListeners) {
+            xStreamListener.started();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void notifyListeners_close() {
+        for (XStreamListener xStreamListener : _aListeners) {
+            xStreamListener.closed();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void notifyListeners_error(com.sun.star.uno.Exception exception) {
+        for (XStreamListener xStreamListener : _aListeners) {
+            xStreamListener.error(exception);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // JNI implementation to create the pipe
+    private native int createJNI( String name )
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException;
+
+    // JNI implementation to read from the pipe
+    private native int readJNI(/*OUT*/byte[][] bytes, int nBytesToRead)
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException;
+
+    // JNI implementation to write to the pipe
+    private native void writeJNI(byte aData[])
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException;
+
+    // JNI implementation to flush the pipe
+    private native void flushJNI()
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException;
+
+    // JNI implementation to close the pipe
+    private native void closeJNI()
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException;
+
+    /**
+     * Read the required number of bytes.
+     *
+     * @param    bytes   the outparameter, where the bytes have to be placed.
+     * @param    nBytesToRead the number of bytes to read.
+     * @return   the number of bytes read.
+     *
+     * @see      com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#read
+     */
+    public int read(/*OUT*/byte[][] bytes, int nBytesToRead)
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if(_bFirstRead) {
+            _bFirstRead = false;
+
+            notifyListeners_open();
+        }
+
+        return readJNI( bytes, nBytesToRead );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Write bytes.
+     *
+     * @param    aData the bytes to write.
+     * @see      com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#write
+     */
+    public void write(byte aData[])
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        writeJNI( aData );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Flushes the buffer.
+     *
+     * @see      com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#flush
+     */
+    public void flush()
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        flushJNI();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Closes the connection.
+     *
+     * @see       com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#close
+     */
+    public void close()
+        throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        if (DEBUG) System.out.print( "PipeConnection::close() " );
+        closeJNI();
+        notifyListeners_close();
+        if (DEBUG) System.out.println( "done" );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a description of the connection.
+     *
+     * @return  the description.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#getDescription
+     */
+    public String getDescription() throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        return _aDescription;
+    }
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/pipeAcceptor.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/pipeAcceptor.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..983eb3265
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/pipeAcceptor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.connections.pipe;
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+import com.sun.star.connection.AlreadyAcceptingException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.ConnectionSetupException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+/**
+ * A component that implements the <code>XAcceptor</code> interface.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>pipeAcceptor</code> is a specialized component that uses TCP
+ * pipes for communication.  The <code>pipeAcceptor</code> is generally used
+ * by the <code>com.sun.star.connection.Acceptor</code> service.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+ * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+ *
+ * @since UDK 1.0
+ */
+public final class pipeAcceptor implements XAcceptor {
+    /**
+     * The name of the service.
+     *
+     * <p>The <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through reflection.</p>
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static final String __serviceName
+    = "com.sun.star.connection.pipeAcceptor";
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a factory for creating the service.
+     *
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param implName the name of the implementation for which a service is
+     *     requested.
+     * @param multiFactory the service manager to be used (if needed).
+     * @param regKey the registry key.
+     * @return an <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(
+        String implName, XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory, XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        return implName.equals(pipeAcceptor.class.getName())
+            ? FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(
+        pipeAcceptor.class, __serviceName, multiFactory, regKey)
+            : null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Accepts a connection request via the described pipe.
+     *
+     * <p>This call blocks until a connection has been established.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>The connection description has the following format:
+     * <code><var>type</var></code><!--
+     *     -->*(<code><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></code>),
+     * where <code><var>type</var></code> should be <code>pipe</code>
+     * (ignoring case).  Supported keys (ignoring case) currently are</p>
+     * <dl>
+     * <dt><code>host</code>
+     * <dd>The name or address of the accepting interface (defaults to
+     *     <code>0</code>, meaning any interface).
+     * <dt><code>port</code>
+     * <dd>The TCP port number to accept on (defaults to <code>6001</code>).
+     * <dt><code>backlog</code>
+     * <dd>The maximum length of the acceptor's queue (defaults to
+     *     <code>50</code>).
+     * <dt><code>tcpnodelay</code>
+     * <dd>A flag (<code>0</code>/<code>1</code>) enabling or disabling Nagle's
+     *     algorithm on the resulting connection.
+     * </dl>
+     *
+     * @param connectionDescription the description of the connection.
+     * @return an <code>XConnection</code> to the client.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+     */
+    public XConnection accept(String connectionDescription) throws
+        AlreadyAcceptingException, ConnectionSetupException,
+        com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        throw new java.lang.NoSuchMethodError( "pipeAcceptor not fully implemented yet" );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor#stopAccepting
+     */
+    public void stopAccepting() {
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/pipeConnector.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/pipeConnector.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..192d35007
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/pipe/pipeConnector.java
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.connections.pipe;
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+import com.sun.star.connection.ConnectionSetupException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnector;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+/**
+ * A component that implements the <code>XConnector</code> interface.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>pipeConnector</code> is a specialized component that uses TCP
+ * pipes for communication.  The <code>pipeConnector</code> is generally
+ * used by the <code>com.sun.star.connection.Connector</code> service.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+ * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+ *
+ * @since UDK 1.0
+ */
+public final class pipeConnector implements XConnector {
+    /**
+     * The name of the service.
+     *
+     * <p>The <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through reflection.</p>
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static final String __serviceName = "com.sun.star.connection.pipeConnector";
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a factory for creating the service.
+     *
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param implName the name of the implementation for which a service is
+     *     requested.
+     * @param multiFactory the service manager to be used (if needed).
+     * @param regKey the registry key.
+     * @return an <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(
+        String implName, XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory, XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        return implName.equals(pipeConnector.class.getName())
+            ? FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(pipeConnector.class,
+                                              __serviceName, multiFactory,
+                                              regKey)
+            : null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Connects via the described pipe to a waiting server.
+     *
+     * <p>The connection description has the following format:
+     * <code><var>type</var></code><!--
+     *     -->*(<code><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></code>),
+     * where <code><var>type</var></code> should be <code>pipe</code>
+     * (ignoring case).  Supported keys (ignoring case) currently are</p>
+     * <dl>
+     * <dt><code>host</code>
+     * <dd>The name or address of the server.  Must be present.
+     * <dt><code>port</code>
+     * <dd>The TCP port number of the server (defaults to <code>6001</code>).
+     * <dt><code>tcpnodelay</code>
+     * <dd>A flag (<code>0</code>/<code>1</code>) enabling or disabling Nagle's
+     *     algorithm on the resulting connection.
+     * </dl>
+     *
+     * @param connectionDescription the description of the connection.
+     * @return an <code>XConnection</code> to the server.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+     */
+    public synchronized XConnection connect(String connectionDescription)
+        throws NoConnectException, ConnectionSetupException
+    {
+        if (bConnected)
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException("already connected");
+
+        try {
+            XConnection xConn = new PipeConnection( connectionDescription );
+            bConnected = true;
+            return xConn;
+        } catch ( java.io.IOException e ) {
+            throw new NoConnectException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private boolean bConnected = false;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/ConnectionDescriptor.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/ConnectionDescriptor.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a88d41ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/ConnectionDescriptor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.connections.socket;
+
+/**
+ * Helper class for <code>socketAcceptor</code> and <code>socketConnector</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>FIXME:  Once those classes have been moved from <code>jurt</code> to
+ * <code>javaunohelper</code>, they should use
+ * <code>com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper.UnoUrl</code> either instead of this class
+ * or underneath this class.</p>
+ */
+final class ConnectionDescriptor {
+    public ConnectionDescriptor(String description)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+        for (int i = description.indexOf(','); i >= 0;) {
+            int j = description.indexOf(',', i + 1);
+            int k = j < 0 ? description.length() : j;
+            int l = description.indexOf('=', i + 1);
+            if (l < 0 || l >= k) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "parameter lacks '='");
+            }
+            String key = description.substring(i + 1, l);
+            String value = description.substring(l + 1, k);
+            if (key.equalsIgnoreCase("host")) {
+                host = value;
+            } else if (key.equalsIgnoreCase("port")) {
+                try {
+                    port = Integer.parseInt(value);
+                } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(e);
+                }
+                if (port < 0 || port > 65535) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                        "port parameter must have value between 0 and 65535,"
+                        + " inclusive");
+                }
+            } else if (key.equalsIgnoreCase("backlog")) {
+                try {
+                    backlog = Integer.parseInt(value);
+                } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(e);
+                }
+            } else if (key.equalsIgnoreCase("tcpnodelay")) {
+                if (value.equals("0")) {
+                    tcpNoDelay = Boolean.FALSE;
+                } else if (value.equals("1")) {
+                    tcpNoDelay = Boolean.TRUE;
+                } else {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                        "tcpnodelay parameter must have 0/1 value");
+                }
+            }
+            i = j;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public String getHost() {
+        return host;
+    }
+
+    public int getPort() {
+        return port;
+    }
+
+    public int getBacklog() {
+        return backlog;
+    }
+
+    public Boolean getTcpNoDelay() {
+        return tcpNoDelay;
+    }
+
+    private String host = null;
+    private int port = 6001;
+    private int backlog = 50;
+    private Boolean tcpNoDelay = null;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/SocketConnection.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/SocketConnection.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a906496f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/SocketConnection.java
@@ -0,0 +1,235 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.connections.socket;
+
+
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
+import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+import java.net.Socket;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnectionBroadcaster;
+import com.sun.star.io.XStreamListener;
+
+/**
+ * The SocketConnection implements the <code>XConnection</code> interface
+ * and is uses by the <code>SocketConnector</code> and the <code>SocketAcceptor</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>This class is not part of the provided <code>api</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.connections.socket.socketAcceptor
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.connections.socket.socketConnector
+ * @see         com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class SocketConnection implements XConnection, XConnectionBroadcaster {
+    /**
+     * When set to true, enables various debugging output.
+     */
+    public static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    protected String       _description;
+    protected Socket       _socket;
+    protected InputStream  _inputStream;
+    protected OutputStream _outputStream;
+    protected ArrayList<XStreamListener>       _listeners;
+    protected boolean      _firstRead;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>SocketConnection</code>.
+     *
+     * @param  description   the description of the connection.
+     * @param  socket        the socket of the connection.
+     */
+    public SocketConnection(String description, Socket socket) throws IOException {
+        if (DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + " - instantiated " + description + " " + socket);
+
+        _description = description
+            + ",localHost=" + socket.getLocalAddress().getHostName()
+            + ",localPort=" + socket.getLocalPort()
+            + ",peerHost=" + socket.getInetAddress().getHostName()
+            + ",peerPort=" + socket.getPort();
+
+        _socket = socket;
+        _inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
+        _outputStream = new BufferedOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
+
+        _listeners = new ArrayList<XStreamListener>();
+        _firstRead = true;
+    }
+
+    public void addStreamListener(XStreamListener aListener )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        _listeners.add(aListener);
+    }
+
+    public void removeStreamListener(XStreamListener aListener )
+            throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        _listeners.remove(aListener);
+    }
+
+    private void notifyListeners_open() {
+        for (XStreamListener xStreamListener : _listeners) {
+            xStreamListener.started();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void notifyListeners_close() {
+        for (XStreamListener xStreamListener : _listeners) {
+            xStreamListener.closed();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void notifyListeners_error(com.sun.star.uno.Exception exception) {
+        for (XStreamListener xStreamListener : _listeners) {
+            xStreamListener.error(exception);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Read the required number of bytes.
+     *
+     * @param    bytes   the outparameter, where the bytes have to be placed.
+     * @param    nBytesToRead the number of bytes to read.
+     * @return   the number of bytes read.
+     *
+     * @see      com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#read
+     */
+    public int read(/*OUT*/byte[][] bytes, int nBytesToRead)
+            throws com.sun.star.io.IOException, com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        if(_firstRead) {
+            _firstRead = false;
+
+            notifyListeners_open();
+        }
+
+        String errMessage = null;
+
+        int read_bytes = 0;
+        bytes[0] = new byte[nBytesToRead];
+
+        try {
+            int count  ;
+
+            do {
+                count = _inputStream.read(bytes[0], read_bytes, nBytesToRead - read_bytes);
+                if(count == -1)
+                    errMessage = "EOF reached - " + getDescription();
+
+                read_bytes += count;
+            }
+            while(read_bytes >= 0 && read_bytes < nBytesToRead && count >= 0);
+        } catch(IOException ioException) {
+            if(DEBUG) {
+                System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".read - exception occurred:" + ioException);
+                ioException.printStackTrace();
+            }
+
+            errMessage = ioException.toString();
+        }
+
+        if(errMessage != null) {
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException unoIOException = new com.sun.star.io.IOException(errMessage);
+            notifyListeners_error(unoIOException);
+
+            throw unoIOException;
+        }
+
+        if (DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + " - read byte:" + read_bytes + " " + Arrays.toString(bytes[0]));
+
+        return read_bytes;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Write bytes.
+     *
+     * @param    aData the bytes to write.
+     * @see       com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#write
+     */
+    public void write(byte aData[]) throws com.sun.star.io.IOException,
+            com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        try {
+            _outputStream.write(aData);
+        } catch(IOException ioException) {
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException unoIOException = new com.sun.star.io.IOException(ioException);
+            notifyListeners_error(unoIOException);
+
+            throw unoIOException;
+        }
+
+        if (DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + " - written bytes:" + Arrays.toString(aData) + " " + aData.length);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Flushes the buffer.
+     *
+     * @see       com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#flush
+     */
+    public void flush() throws com.sun.star.io.IOException,
+            com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        try {
+            _outputStream.flush();
+        } catch(IOException ioException) {
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException unoIOException = new com.sun.star.io.IOException(ioException);
+            notifyListeners_error(unoIOException);
+
+            throw unoIOException;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Closes the connection.
+     *
+     * @see       com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#close
+     */
+    public void close() throws com.sun.star.io.IOException,
+            com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        try {
+            _socket.close();
+        } catch(IOException ioException) {
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException unoIOException = new com.sun.star.io.IOException(ioException);
+            notifyListeners_error(unoIOException);
+
+            throw unoIOException;
+        }
+        if (DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + " - socket closed");
+
+        notifyListeners_close();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a description of the connection.
+     *
+     * @return  the description.
+     * @see       com.sun.star.connection.XConnection#getDescription
+     */
+    public String getDescription() throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+        return _description;
+    }
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/socketAcceptor.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/socketAcceptor.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4000a1d0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/socketAcceptor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.connections.socket;
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+import com.sun.star.connection.AlreadyAcceptingException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.ConnectionSetupException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.*;
+
+/**
+ * A component that implements the <code>XAcceptor</code> interface.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>socketAcceptor</code> is a specialized component that uses TCP
+ * sockets for communication.  The <code>socketAcceptor</code> is generally used
+ * by the <code>com.sun.star.connection.Acceptor</code> service.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection2
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+ * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+ *
+ * @since UDK 1.0
+ */
+public final class socketAcceptor implements XAcceptor {
+    /**
+     * The name of the service.
+     *
+     * <p>The <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through reflection.</p>
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static final String __serviceName
+    = "com.sun.star.connection.socketAcceptor";
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a factory for creating the service.
+     *
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param implName the name of the implementation for which a service is
+     *     requested.
+     * @param multiFactory the service manager to be used (if needed).
+     * @param regKey the registry key.
+     * @return an <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(
+        String implName, XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory, XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        return implName.equals(socketAcceptor.class.getName())
+            ? FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(socketAcceptor.class,
+                                              __serviceName, multiFactory,
+                                              regKey)
+            : null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Accepts a connection request via the described socket.
+     *
+     * <p>This call blocks until a connection has been established.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>The connection description has the following format:
+     * <code><var>type</var></code><!--
+     *     -->*(<code><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></code>),
+     * where <code><var>type</var></code> should be <code>socket</code>
+     * (ignoring case).  Supported keys (ignoring case) currently are</p>
+     * <dl>
+     * <dt><code>host</code>
+     * <dd>The name or address of the accepting interface (defaults to
+     *     <code>0</code>, meaning any interface).
+     * <dt><code>port</code>
+     * <dd>The TCP port number to accept on (defaults to <code>6001</code>).
+     * <dt><code>backlog</code>
+     * <dd>The maximum length of the acceptor's queue (defaults to
+     *     <code>50</code>).
+     * <dt><code>tcpnodelay</code>
+     * <dd>A flag (<code>0</code>/<code>1</code>) enabling or disabling Nagle's
+     *     algorithm on the resulting connection.
+     * </dl>
+     *
+     * @param connectionDescription the description of the connection.
+     * @return an <code>XConnection</code> to the client.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+     */
+    public XConnection accept(String connectionDescription) throws
+        AlreadyAcceptingException, ConnectionSetupException,
+        com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        ServerSocket serv;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if (server == null) {
+                ConnectionDescriptor desc
+                    = new ConnectionDescriptor(connectionDescription);
+                String host = desc.getHost();
+                if (host.equals("0")) {
+                    host = null;
+                }
+                if (DEBUG) {
+                    System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName()
+                                       + ".accept: creating ServerSocket "
+                                       + desc.getPort() + ", "
+                                       + desc.getBacklog() + ", " + host);
+                }
+                try {
+                    server = new ServerSocket(desc.getPort(), desc.getBacklog(),
+                                              host == null ? null
+                                              : InetAddress.getByName(host));
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    throw new ConnectionSetupException(e);
+                }
+                acceptingDescription = connectionDescription;
+                tcpNoDelay = desc.getTcpNoDelay();
+            } else if (!connectionDescription.equals(acceptingDescription)) {
+                throw new AlreadyAcceptingException(acceptingDescription
+                                                    + " vs. "
+                                                    + connectionDescription);
+            }
+            serv = server;
+        }
+        Socket socket = null;
+        try {
+            socket = serv.accept();
+            if (DEBUG) {
+                System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName()
+                                   + ".accept: accepted " + socket);
+            }
+            // we enable tcpNoDelay for loopback connections because
+            // it can make a significant speed difference on linux boxes.
+            if (tcpNoDelay != null) {
+                socket.setTcpNoDelay(tcpNoDelay.booleanValue());
+            }
+            else {
+                InetSocketAddress address = (InetSocketAddress)socket.getRemoteSocketAddress();
+                if (address != null && address.getAddress().isLoopbackAddress()) {
+                    socket.setTcpNoDelay(true);
+                }
+            }
+            return new SocketConnection(acceptingDescription, socket);
+        }
+        catch(IOException e) {
+            if (socket != null) {
+                try {
+                    socket.close();
+                } catch(IOException ioException) {
+                }
+            }
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor#stopAccepting
+     */
+    public void stopAccepting() {
+        ServerSocket serv;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            serv = server;
+        }
+        try {
+            serv.close();
+        }
+        catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    private ServerSocket server = null;
+    private String acceptingDescription;
+    private Boolean tcpNoDelay;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/socketConnector.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/socketConnector.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c9a15d1f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/connections/socket/socketConnector.java
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.connections.socket;
+
+import com.sun.star.comp.loader.FactoryHelper;
+import com.sun.star.connection.ConnectionSetupException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnector;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleServiceFactory;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.net.Socket;
+import java.net.UnknownHostException;
+
+/**
+ * A component that implements the <code>XConnector</code> interface.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>socketConnector</code> is a specialized component that uses TCP
+ * sockets for communication.  The <code>socketConnector</code> is generally
+ * used by the <code>com.sun.star.connection.Connector</code> service.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+ * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnector
+ * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+ *
+ * @since UDK 1.0
+ */
+public final class socketConnector implements XConnector {
+    /**
+     * The name of the service.
+     *
+     * <p>The <code>JavaLoader</code> accesses this through reflection.</p>
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static final String __serviceName
+    = "com.sun.star.connection.socketConnector";
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a factory for creating the service.
+     *
+     * <p>This method is called by the <code>JavaLoader</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param implName the name of the implementation for which a service is
+     *     requested.
+     * @param multiFactory the service manager to be used (if needed).
+     * @param regKey the registry key.
+     * @return an <code>XSingleServiceFactory</code> for creating the component.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader
+     */
+    public static XSingleServiceFactory __getServiceFactory(
+        String implName, XMultiServiceFactory multiFactory, XRegistryKey regKey)
+    {
+        return implName.equals(socketConnector.class.getName())
+            ? FactoryHelper.getServiceFactory(socketConnector.class,
+                                              __serviceName, multiFactory,
+                                              regKey)
+            : null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Connects via the described socket to a waiting server.
+     *
+     * <p>The connection description has the following format:
+     * <code><var>type</var></code><!--
+     *     -->*(<code><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></code>),
+     * where <code><var>type</var></code> should be <code>socket</code>
+     * (ignoring case).  Supported keys (ignoring case) currently are</p>
+     * <dl>
+     * <dt><code>host</code>
+     * <dd>The name or address of the server.  Must be present.
+     * <dt><code>port</code>
+     * <dd>The TCP port number of the server (defaults to <code>6001</code>).
+     * <dt><code>tcpnodelay</code>
+     * <dd>A flag (<code>0</code>/<code>1</code>) enabling or disabling Nagle's
+     *     algorithm on the resulting connection.
+     * </dl>
+     *
+     * @param connectionDescription the description of the connection.
+     * @return an <code>XConnection</code> to the server.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XAcceptor
+     * @see com.sun.star.connection.XConnection
+     */
+    public synchronized XConnection connect(String connectionDescription)
+        throws NoConnectException, ConnectionSetupException
+    {
+        if (connected)
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException("already connected");
+
+        ConnectionDescriptor desc;
+        try {
+            desc = new ConnectionDescriptor(connectionDescription);
+        } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException(e);
+        }
+
+        if (desc.getHost() == null)
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException("host parameter missing");
+        // Try all (IPv4 and IPv6) addresses, in case this client is on a
+        // dual-stack host and the server process is an IPv4-only process, also
+        // on a dual-stack host (see Stevens, Fenner, Rudoff: "Unix Network
+        // Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API, 3rd Edition",
+        // p. 359):
+        InetAddress[] adr;
+        try {
+            adr = InetAddress.getAllByName(desc.getHost());
+        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException(e);
+        }
+        Socket socket = null;
+        boolean isLoopbackAddress = false;
+        for (int i = 0; i < adr.length; ++i) {
+            try {
+                isLoopbackAddress = adr[i].isLoopbackAddress();
+                socket = new Socket(adr[i], desc.getPort());
+                break;
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                if (i == adr.length - 1)
+                    throw new NoConnectException(e);
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (socket == null)
+            throw new ConnectionSetupException("no socket");
+
+        XConnection con;
+        try {
+            // we enable tcpNoDelay for loopback connections because
+            // it can make a significant speed difference on linux boxes.
+            if (desc.getTcpNoDelay() != null)
+                socket.setTcpNoDelay(desc.getTcpNoDelay().booleanValue());
+            else if (isLoopbackAddress)
+                socket.setTcpNoDelay(true);
+
+            con = new SocketConnection(connectionDescription, socket);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            try {
+                socket.close();
+            } catch(IOException ioException) {
+            }
+            throw new NoConnectException(e);
+        }
+        connected = true;
+        return con;
+    }
+
+    private boolean connected = false;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/Proxy.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/Proxy.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7d3612758
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/Proxy.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno;
+
+/**
+ * Marker interface implemented by proxies for UNO objects.
+ *
+ * <p>Currently, this interface is used internally by
+ * <code>com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.java.java_environment</code> to
+ * distinguish between proxies and local objects.  Any proxy object that shall
+ * be registered at the <code>java_environment</code> must implement this marker
+ * interface.</p>
+ */
+public interface Proxy {
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/ByteArrayToXInputStreamAdapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/ByteArrayToXInputStreamAdapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2d3e9a848
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/ByteArrayToXInputStreamAdapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.adapter;
+
+import com.sun.star.io.XInputStream;
+import com.sun.star.io.XSeekable;
+import  com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper.ComponentBase;
+
+public final class ByteArrayToXInputStreamAdapter
+    extends ComponentBase
+    implements XInputStream, XSeekable
+{
+
+    byte[] m_bytes;
+    int m_length;
+    int m_pos;
+
+    boolean m_open;
+
+    /** Creates a new instance of ByteArrayXInputStram */
+    public ByteArrayToXInputStreamAdapter(byte[] bytes) {
+        init(bytes);
+    }
+
+    public void init(byte[] bytes) {
+        m_bytes = bytes;
+        m_length = bytes.length;
+        m_pos = 0;
+        m_open = true;
+    }
+
+    private void _check() throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException, com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        if (m_bytes == null) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException("no bytes");
+        }
+        if(!m_open) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException("input closed");
+        }
+    }
+
+    public int available() throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException, com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        _check();
+        long a = m_length - m_pos;
+        if (a != (int)a)
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException("integer overflow");
+        else {
+            return (int)a;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void closeInput() throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException, com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        _check();
+        m_open = false;
+    }
+
+    public int readBytes(byte[][] values, int param) throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException, com.sun.star.io.BufferSizeExceededException, com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        _check();
+    try {
+            int remain = (m_length - m_pos);
+            if (param > remain) param = remain;
+            /* ARGH!!! */
+            if (values[0] == null){
+                values[0] = new byte[param];
+            }
+            System.arraycopy(m_bytes, m_pos, values[0], 0, param);
+            m_pos += param;
+            return param;
+        } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException ex) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.BufferSizeExceededException(ex, "buffer overflow");
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(ex, "error accessing buffer");
+        }
+    }
+
+    public int readSomeBytes(byte[][] values, int param) throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException, com.sun.star.io.BufferSizeExceededException, com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        return readBytes(values, param);
+    }
+
+    public void skipBytes(int param) throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException, com.sun.star.io.BufferSizeExceededException, com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        _check();
+        if (param > (m_length - m_pos))
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.BufferSizeExceededException("buffer overflow");
+        m_pos += param;
+    }
+
+    public long getLength() throws com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        if (m_bytes != null) return m_length;
+        else throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException("no bytes");
+    }
+
+    public long getPosition() throws com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        if (m_bytes != null) return m_pos;
+        else throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException("no bytes");
+    }
+
+    public void seek(long param) throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, com.sun.star.io.IOException {
+        if (m_bytes != null){
+            if (param < 0 || param > m_length) throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException("invalid seek position");
+            else m_pos = (int)param;
+        }else throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException("no bytes");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/InputStreamToXInputStreamAdapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/InputStreamToXInputStreamAdapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d60e5a11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/InputStreamToXInputStreamAdapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.adapter;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import com.sun.star.io.XInputStream;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+/** The <code>InputStreamToInputXStreamAdapter</code> wraps the
+    Java <code>InputStream</code> object into a
+    UNO <code>XInputStream</code> object.
+    This allows users to access an <code>InputStream</code>
+    as if it were an <code>XInputStream</code>.
+ */
+public final class InputStreamToXInputStreamAdapter implements XInputStream {
+
+    /**
+     *  Internal store to the InputStream
+     */
+    private final InputStream iIn;
+
+    /**
+     *  Constructor.
+     *
+     *  @param  in  The <code>XInputStream</code> to be
+     *              accessed as an <code>InputStream</code>.
+     */
+    public InputStreamToXInputStreamAdapter (InputStream in)
+    {
+        iIn = in;
+    }
+
+    public int available() throws
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+
+        int bytesAvail;
+
+        try {
+            bytesAvail = iIn.available();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(e);
+        }
+
+        return bytesAvail;
+    }
+
+    public void closeInput() throws
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+        try {
+            iIn.close();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public int readBytes(byte[][] b, int len) throws
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+        try {
+        long bytesRead;
+        if (len >iIn.available()) {
+            bytesRead = iIn.read(b[0], 0, iIn.available());
+        }
+        else{
+            bytesRead = iIn.read(b[0], 0, len);
+        }
+            // Casting bytesRead to an int is okay, since the user can
+            // only pass in an integer length to read, so the bytesRead
+            // must <= len.
+
+            if (bytesRead <= 0) {
+                return 0;
+        }
+        return ((int)bytesRead);
+
+
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException("reader error", e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public int readSomeBytes(byte[][] b, int len) throws
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+        try {
+        long bytesRead;
+        if (len >iIn.available()) {
+            bytesRead = iIn.read(b[0], 0, iIn.available());
+        }
+        else{
+            bytesRead = iIn.read(b[0], 0, len);
+        }
+            // Casting bytesRead to an int is okay, since the user can
+            // only pass in an integer length to read, so the bytesRead
+            // must <= len.
+
+            if (bytesRead <= 0) {
+                return 0;
+        }
+        return ((int)bytesRead);
+
+
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException("reader error", e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void skipBytes(int n) throws
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+        try {
+            iIn.available();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(e);
+        }
+
+        do {
+            try {
+                n -= iIn.skip(n);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(e);
+            }
+        } while (n > 0);
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/OutputStreamToXOutputStreamAdapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/OutputStreamToXOutputStreamAdapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2842e3df0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/OutputStreamToXOutputStreamAdapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.adapter;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import com.sun.star.io.XOutputStream;
+
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+/** The <code>OutputStreamToXOutputStreamAdapter</code> wraps
+   a UNO <code>XOutputStream</code> into a Java <code>OutputStream</code>
+   object in a Java.  This allows users to access an <code>OutputStream</code>
+   as if it were an <code>XOutputStream</code>.
+ */
+public final class OutputStreamToXOutputStreamAdapter implements XOutputStream {
+
+    /**
+     *  Internal handle to the OutputStream
+     */
+    OutputStream iOut;
+
+    /**
+     *  Constructor.
+     *
+     *  @param  out  The <code>XOutputStream</code> to be
+     *          accessed as an <code>OutputStream</code>.
+     */
+    public OutputStreamToXOutputStreamAdapter(OutputStream out) {
+        iOut = out;
+    }
+
+    public void closeOutput() throws
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+        try {
+            iOut.close();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void flush() throws
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+        try {
+            iOut.flush();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void writeBytes(byte[] b) throws
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+
+        try {
+                iOut.write(b);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.io.IOException(e);
+            }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XInputStreamToInputStreamAdapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XInputStreamToInputStreamAdapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..25f1798fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XInputStreamToInputStreamAdapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.adapter;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import com.sun.star.io.XInputStream;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+/**
+ * The <code>XInputStreamToInputStreamAdapter</code> wraps
+ * the UNO <code>XInputStream</code> object in a Java
+ * <code>InputStream</code>.  This allows users to access
+ * an <code>XInputStream</code> as if it were an
+ * <code>InputStream</code>.
+ */
+public final class XInputStreamToInputStreamAdapter extends InputStream {
+
+    /**
+     *  Internal handle to the XInputStream
+     */
+    private final XInputStream xin;
+
+    /**
+     *  Constructor.
+     *
+     *  @param  in  The <code>XInputStream</code> to be
+     *              accessed as an <code>InputStream</code>.
+     */
+    public XInputStreamToInputStreamAdapter (XInputStream in) {
+        xin = in;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int available() throws IOException {
+
+        int bytesAvail;
+
+        try {
+            bytesAvail = xin.available();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+
+        return bytesAvail;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        try {
+            xin.closeInput();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int read () throws IOException {
+        byte [][] tmp = new byte [1][1];
+        try {
+            long bytesRead = xin.readBytes(tmp, 1);
+
+            if (bytesRead <= 0) {
+               return (-1);
+            } else {
+                int tmpInt = tmp[0][0];
+                if (tmpInt< 0 ){
+                    tmpInt = 256 +tmpInt;
+                }
+                return tmpInt;
+            }
+
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int read (byte[] b) throws IOException {
+
+        byte [][] tmp = new byte [1][b.length];
+        int bytesRead;
+
+        try {
+            bytesRead = xin.readBytes(tmp, b.length);
+            if (bytesRead <= 0) {
+                return -1;
+            } else if (bytesRead < b.length) {
+                System.arraycopy(tmp[0], 0, b, 0, bytesRead);
+            } else {
+                System.arraycopy(tmp[0], 0, b, 0, b.length);
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+
+        return bytesRead;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
+        byte [][] tmp = new byte [1][b.length];
+        try {
+            long bytesRead;
+            int av = xin.available();
+            if ( av != 0 && len > av) {
+                bytesRead = xin.readBytes(tmp, av);
+            }
+            else{
+                bytesRead = xin.readBytes(tmp,len);
+            }
+            // Casting bytesRead to an int is okay, since the user can
+            // only pass in an integer length to read, so the bytesRead
+            // must <= len.
+
+            if (bytesRead <= 0) {
+                return -1;
+            } else if (bytesRead < len) {
+                System.arraycopy(tmp[0], 0, b, off, (int)bytesRead);
+            } else {
+                System.arraycopy(tmp[0], 0, b, off, len);
+            }
+
+            return ((int)bytesRead);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
+
+        int avail;
+        long tmpLongVal = n;
+        int  tmpIntVal;
+
+        try {
+            avail = xin.available();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+
+        do {
+            if (tmpLongVal >= Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
+               tmpIntVal = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
+            } else {
+               // Casting is safe here.
+               tmpIntVal = (int)tmpLongVal;
+            }
+            tmpLongVal -= tmpIntVal;
+
+            try {
+                xin.skipBytes(tmpIntVal);
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+                newEx.initCause(e);
+                throw newEx;
+            }
+        } while (tmpLongVal > 0);
+
+        if ( avail != 0 && avail < n) {
+            return avail;
+        } else {
+            return n;
+        }
+    }
+
+   /**
+    *  Tests if this input stream supports the mark and reset methods.
+    *  The markSupported method of
+    *  <code>XInputStreamToInputStreamAdapter</code> returns false.
+    *
+    *  @return  false
+    */
+    @Override
+    public boolean markSupported() {
+       return false;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void mark(int readlimit) {
+        // Not supported.
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void reset() throws IOException {
+        // Not supported.
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XOutputStreamToByteArrayAdapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XOutputStreamToByteArrayAdapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..48871277a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XOutputStreamToByteArrayAdapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.adapter;
+
+import com.sun.star.io.*;
+import  com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper.ComponentBase;
+
+public final class XOutputStreamToByteArrayAdapter
+    extends ComponentBase
+    implements XOutputStream
+{
+    private static final int initialSize = 100240; // 10 kb
+    private int size = 0;
+    private int position = 0;
+    private boolean externalBuffer = false;
+    private byte[] buffer;
+
+    /** Creates a new instance of ByteArrayXOutputStream */
+    public XOutputStreamToByteArrayAdapter() {
+        this(null);
+    }
+
+    public XOutputStreamToByteArrayAdapter(byte[] aBuffer) {
+        if (aBuffer != null) {
+            externalBuffer = true;
+            buffer = aBuffer;
+            size = buffer.length;
+        } else {
+            size = initialSize;
+            buffer = new byte[size];
+        }
+    }
+
+    public byte[] getBuffer() {
+        return buffer;
+    }
+
+    public void closeOutput()
+        throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException,
+            com.sun.star.io.BufferSizeExceededException,
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+        // trim buffer
+        if ( buffer.length > position && !externalBuffer )
+        {
+            byte[] newBuffer = new byte[position];
+            System.arraycopy(buffer, 0, newBuffer, 0, position);
+            buffer = newBuffer;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void flush()
+        throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException,
+            com.sun.star.io.BufferSizeExceededException,
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+    }
+
+    public void writeBytes(byte[] values)
+        throws com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException,
+            com.sun.star.io.BufferSizeExceededException,
+            com.sun.star.io.IOException
+    {
+        if ( values.length > size-position )
+        {
+            if ( externalBuffer )
+                throw new BufferSizeExceededException("out of buffer space, cannot grow external buffer");
+            while ( values.length > size-position ) {
+                size *= 2;
+            }
+            byte[] newBuffer = new byte[size];
+            System.arraycopy(buffer, 0, newBuffer, 0, position);
+            buffer = newBuffer;
+        }
+        System.arraycopy(values, 0, buffer, position, values.length);
+        position += values.length;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XOutputStreamToOutputStreamAdapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XOutputStreamToOutputStreamAdapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8104cf42f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/adapter/XOutputStreamToOutputStreamAdapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.adapter;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import com.sun.star.io.XOutputStream;
+
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+/**
+ * The <code>XOutputStreamToOutputStreamAdapter</code> wraps
+ * the UNO <code>XOutputStream</code> object in a Java
+ * <code>OutputStream</code>.  This allows users to access
+ * an <code>XOutputStream</code> as if it were an
+ * <code>OutputStream</code>.
+ */
+public final class XOutputStreamToOutputStreamAdapter extends OutputStream {
+
+    /**
+     *  Internal handle to the XInputStream
+     */
+    XOutputStream xout;
+
+    /**
+     *  Constructor.
+     *
+     *  @param  out  The <code>XOutputStream</code> to be
+     *          accessed as an <code>OutputStream</code>.
+     */
+    public XOutputStreamToOutputStreamAdapter(XOutputStream out) {
+        xout = out;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        try {
+            xout.closeOutput();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void flush() throws IOException {
+        try {
+            xout.flush();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(byte[] b) throws IOException {
+
+        try {
+            xout.writeBytes(b);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
+
+        byte[] tmp = new byte[len];
+
+        // Copy the input array into a temp array, and write it out.
+
+        System.arraycopy(b, off, tmp, 0, len);
+
+        try {
+            xout.writeBytes(tmp);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(int b) throws IOException {
+
+        byte [] oneByte = new byte [1];
+        oneByte[0] = (byte) b;
+
+        try {
+            xout.writeBytes(oneByte);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            IOException newEx = new IOException(e.getMessage());
+            newEx.initCause(e);
+            throw newEx;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/BridgedObject.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/BridgedObject.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0a724f059
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/BridgedObject.java
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote;
+
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge;
+
+/**
+ * A back door to access the bridge associated with a bridged object.
+ */
+public final class BridgedObject {
+    /**
+     * Obtains the bridge associated with a bridged object.
+     *
+     * @param obj a reference to a (Java representation of a) UNO object;
+     *     must not be null.
+     * @return the bridge associated with the given object, if it is indeed
+     *     bridged; otherwise, null is returned.
+     */
+    public static XBridge getBridge(Object obj) {
+        return ProxyFactory.getBridge(obj);
+    }
+
+    private BridgedObject() {} // do not instantiate
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/ProxyFactory.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/ProxyFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1b3848983
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/ProxyFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote;
+
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge;
+import com.sun.star.lib.util.AsynchronousFinalizer;
+import com.sun.star.uno.IQueryInterface;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
+
+/**
+ * A factory for proxies specific to the <code>java_remote_bridge</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>Eventually, this class should be united with all other proxy classes
+ * specific to certain bridges (for example, the JNI bridge), resulting in a
+ * generic proxy class.</p>
+ */
+final class ProxyFactory {
+    public ProxyFactory(RequestHandler requestHandler, XBridge bridge) {
+        this.requestHandler = requestHandler;
+        this.bridge = bridge;
+    }
+
+    public Object create(String oid, Type type) {
+        return Proxy.newProxyInstance(
+            getClass().getClassLoader(),
+            new Class[] { com.sun.star.lib.uno.Proxy.class,
+                          IQueryInterface.class, type.getZClass() },
+            new Handler(oid, type));
+    }
+
+    public boolean isProxy(Object obj) {
+        if (Proxy.isProxyClass(obj.getClass())) {
+            InvocationHandler h = Proxy.getInvocationHandler(obj);
+            return h instanceof Handler && ((Handler) h).matches(this);
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void dispose() throws InterruptedException {
+        asynchronousFinalizer.drain();
+    }
+
+    public static XBridge getBridge(Object obj) {
+        if (Proxy.isProxyClass(obj.getClass())) {
+            InvocationHandler h = Proxy.getInvocationHandler(obj);
+            if (h instanceof Handler) {
+                return ((Handler) h).getBridge();
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    static int getDebugCount() {
+        synchronized (debugCountLock) {
+            return debugCount;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void incrementDebugCount() {
+        synchronized (debugCountLock) {
+            ++debugCount;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void decrementDebugCount() {
+        synchronized (debugCountLock) {
+            --debugCount;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final class Handler implements InvocationHandler {
+        public Handler(String oid, Type type) {
+            this.oid = oid;
+            this.type = type;
+            incrementDebugCount();
+        }
+
+        public boolean matches(ProxyFactory factory) {
+            return ProxyFactory.this == factory;
+        }
+
+        public XBridge getBridge() {
+            return bridge;
+        }
+
+        public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args)
+            throws Throwable
+        {
+            if (method.equals(METHOD_EQUALS) || method.equals(METHOD_IS_SAME)) {
+                return Boolean.valueOf(args[0] != null
+                        && oid.equals(UnoRuntime.generateOid(args[0])));
+            } else if (method.equals(METHOD_HASH_CODE)) {
+                return Integer.valueOf(oid.hashCode());
+            } else if (method.equals(METHOD_TO_STRING)) {
+                return "[Proxy:" + System.identityHashCode(proxy) + "," + oid
+                    + "," + type + "]";
+            } else if (method.equals(METHOD_QUERY_INTERFACE)) {
+                // See the comment in java_remote_bridge.mapInterfaceTo for one
+                // reason why this implementation must not satisfy a request for
+                // a super-interface with a proxy itself:
+                return args[0].equals(type) ? proxy
+                    : request("queryInterface", args);
+            } else if (method.equals(METHOD_GET_OID)) {
+                return oid;
+            } else {
+                return request(method.getName(), args);
+            }
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        protected void finalize() {
+            decrementDebugCount();
+            asynchronousFinalizer.add(new AsynchronousFinalizer.Job() {
+                    public void run() throws Throwable {
+                        request("release", null);
+                    }
+                });
+        }
+
+        private Object request(String operation, Object[] args) throws Throwable
+        {
+            Object res = requestHandler.sendRequest(oid, type, operation, args);
+            // Avoid early finalization of this object, while an invoke ->
+            // request call is still ongoing; as finalize also calls request,
+            // this should fulfil the condition from The Java Language
+            // Specification, 3rd ed., that "if an object's finalizer can result
+            // in synchronization on that object, then that object must be alive
+            // and considered reachable whenever a lock is held on it:"
+            synchronized (this) {
+                ++dummy;
+            }
+            return res;
+        }
+
+        private final String oid;
+        private final Type type;
+        @SuppressWarnings("unused")
+        private int dummy = 0;
+    }
+
+    private static final Method METHOD_EQUALS;
+    private static final Method METHOD_HASH_CODE;
+    private static final Method METHOD_TO_STRING;
+    private static final Method METHOD_QUERY_INTERFACE;
+    private static final Method METHOD_IS_SAME;
+    private static final Method METHOD_GET_OID;
+    static {
+        try {
+            METHOD_EQUALS = Object.class.getMethod(
+                "equals", new Class[] { Object.class });
+            METHOD_HASH_CODE = Object.class.getMethod(
+                "hashCode", (Class[]) null);
+            METHOD_TO_STRING = Object.class.getMethod(
+                "toString", (Class[]) null);
+            METHOD_QUERY_INTERFACE = IQueryInterface.class.getMethod(
+                "queryInterface", new Class[] { Type.class });
+            METHOD_IS_SAME = IQueryInterface.class.getMethod(
+                "isSame", new Class[] { Object.class });
+            METHOD_GET_OID = IQueryInterface.class.getMethod(
+                "getOid", (Class[]) null);
+        } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final Object debugCountLock = new Object();
+    private static int debugCount = 0;
+
+    private final RequestHandler requestHandler;
+    private final XBridge bridge;
+    private final AsynchronousFinalizer asynchronousFinalizer =
+        new AsynchronousFinalizer();
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/RequestHandler.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/RequestHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d5246bf26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/RequestHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+
+/**
+ * The link between the proxies generated by <code>ProxyFactory</code> (which
+ * receive requests in the form of method calls) and
+ * <code>java_remote_bridge</code> (which passes those requests on to the remote
+ * side).
+ */
+interface RequestHandler {
+    Object sendRequest(String oid, Type type, String operation, Object[] args)
+        throws Throwable;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/XConnectionInputStream_Adapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/XConnectionInputStream_Adapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d660e88c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/XConnectionInputStream_Adapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote;
+
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+
+
+class XConnectionInputStream_Adapter extends InputStream {
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    protected XConnection _xConnection;
+    protected byte        _bytes[][] = new byte[1][];
+
+    XConnectionInputStream_Adapter(XConnection xConnection) {
+        if(xConnection == null) throw new NullPointerException("the XConnection must not be null");
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("#### " + getClass().getName()  + " - instantiated ");
+
+        _xConnection = xConnection;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int read() throws IOException {
+        int len;
+
+        try {
+            len = _xConnection.read(_bytes, 1);
+        } catch(com.sun.star.io.IOException ioException) {
+            IOException ex = new IOException(ioException.getMessage());
+            ex.initCause(ioException);
+            throw ex;
+        }
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("#### " + getClass().getName()  + " - one byte read:" +  _bytes[0][0]);
+
+        return len == 0 ? -1 : _bytes[0][0] & 0xff;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
+        try {
+            len = _xConnection.read(_bytes, len - off);
+        } catch(com.sun.star.io.IOException ioException) {
+            IOException ex = new IOException(ioException.getMessage());
+            ex.initCause(ioException);
+            throw ex;
+        }
+
+        System.arraycopy(_bytes[0], 0, b, off, len);
+
+        return len == 0 ? -1 : len;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/XConnectionOutputStream_Adapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/XConnectionOutputStream_Adapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac198f8fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/XConnectionOutputStream_Adapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote;
+
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+
+
+class XConnectionOutputStream_Adapter extends OutputStream {
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    protected XConnection _xConnection;
+    protected byte _bytes[] = new byte[1];
+
+    XConnectionOutputStream_Adapter(XConnection xConnection) {
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("#### " + this.getClass()  + " - instantiated ");
+
+        _xConnection = xConnection;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(int b) throws IOException {
+        _bytes[0] = (byte)b;
+
+        try {
+            _xConnection.write(_bytes);
+        } catch(com.sun.star.io.IOException ioException) {
+            IOException ex = new IOException(ioException.getMessage());
+            ex.initCause(ioException);
+            throw ex;
+        }
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("#### " + this.getClass()  + " - one byte written:" +  _bytes[0]);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
+        byte bytes[]  ;
+
+        if(off == 0 && len == b.length) {
+            bytes = b;
+        } else {
+            bytes = new byte[len];
+
+            System.arraycopy(b, off, bytes, 0, len);
+        }
+
+        try {
+            _xConnection.write(bytes);
+        } catch(com.sun.star.io.IOException ioException) {
+            IOException ex = new IOException(ioException.getMessage());
+            ex.initCause(ioException);
+            throw ex;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void flush() throws IOException {
+        try {
+            _xConnection.flush();
+        } catch(com.sun.star.io.IOException ioException) {
+            IOException ex = new IOException(ioException.getMessage());
+            ex.initCause(ioException);
+            throw ex;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/java_remote_bridge.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/java_remote_bridge.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..392e031e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/bridges/java_remote/java_remote_bridge.java
@@ -0,0 +1,700 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote;
+
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
+
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XInstanceProvider;
+import com.sun.star.connection.XConnection;
+import com.sun.star.lang.DisposedException;
+import com.sun.star.lang.EventObject;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XComponent;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XEventListener;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.java.java_environment;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.IProtocol;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.IReceiver;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.IThreadPool;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Job;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Message;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadPoolManager;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.MethodDescription;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.lib.util.DisposeListener;
+import com.sun.star.lib.util.DisposeNotifier;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Any;
+import com.sun.star.uno.IBridge;
+import com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XInterface;
+
+/**
+ * This class implements a remote bridge.
+ *
+ * <p>Therefore various interfaces are implemented.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>The protocol to used is passed by name, the bridge
+ * then looks for it under <code>com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class java_remote_bridge
+    implements IBridge, IReceiver, RequestHandler, XBridge, XComponent,
+        DisposeNotifier
+{
+    /**
+     * When set to true, enables various debugging output.
+     */
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    private final class MessageDispatcher extends Thread {
+        public MessageDispatcher() {
+            super("MessageDispatcher");
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            try {
+                for (;;) {
+                    synchronized (this) {
+                        if (terminate) {
+                            break;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    Message msg = _iProtocol.readMessage();
+                    Object obj = null;
+                    if (msg.isRequest()) {
+                        String oid = msg.getObjectId();
+                        Type type = new Type(msg.getType());
+                        int fid = msg.getMethod().getIndex();
+                        if (fid == MethodDescription.ID_RELEASE) {
+                            _java_environment.revokeInterface(oid, type);
+                            remRefHolder(type, oid);
+                            if (msg.isSynchronous()) {
+                                sendReply(false, msg.getThreadId(), null);
+                            }
+                            continue;
+                        }
+                        obj = _java_environment.getRegisteredInterface(
+                            oid, type);
+                        if (obj == null
+                            && fid == MethodDescription.ID_QUERY_INTERFACE)
+                        {
+                            if (_xInstanceProvider == null) {
+                                sendReply(
+                                    true, msg.getThreadId(),
+                                    new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(
+                                        "unknown OID " + oid));
+                                continue;
+                            } else {
+                                UnoRuntime.setCurrentContext(
+                                    msg.getCurrentContext());
+                                try {
+                                    obj = _xInstanceProvider.getInstance(oid);
+                                } catch (com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException e) {
+                                    sendReply(true, msg.getThreadId(), e);
+                                    continue;
+                                } catch (Exception e) {
+                                    sendReply(
+                                        true, msg.getThreadId(),
+                                        new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(
+                                            e.toString()));
+                                    continue;
+                                } finally {
+                                    UnoRuntime.setCurrentContext(null);
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    _iThreadPool.putJob(
+                        new Job(obj, java_remote_bridge.this, msg));
+                }
+            } catch (Throwable e) {
+                dispose(e);
+            }
+        }
+
+        public synchronized void terminate() {
+            terminate = true;
+        }
+
+        private boolean terminate = false;
+    }
+
+    protected XConnection       _xConnection;
+
+    protected XInstanceProvider _xInstanceProvider;
+
+    protected String            _name = "remote";
+    private final String protocol;
+    protected IProtocol         _iProtocol;
+    protected IEnvironment      _java_environment;
+    protected MessageDispatcher _messageDispatcher;
+    protected final AtomicInteger _life_count = new AtomicInteger();    // determines if this bridge is alive, which is controlled by acquire and release calls
+
+    private final ArrayList<XEventListener> _listeners = new ArrayList<XEventListener>();
+
+    protected IThreadPool       _iThreadPool;
+
+    // Variable disposed must only be used while synchronized on this object:
+    private boolean disposed = false;
+
+    /**
+     * This method is for testing only.
+     */
+    int getLifeCount() {
+        return _life_count.get();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is for testing only.
+     */
+    IProtocol getProtocol() {
+        return _iProtocol;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The ref holder stuff strongly holds objects mapped out via this bridge
+     * (the java_environment only holds them weakly).
+     *
+     * <p>When this bridge is disposed, all remaining ref holder entries are
+     * released.</p>
+     */
+    private static final class RefHolder {
+        public RefHolder(Type type, Object object) {
+            this.type = type;
+            this.object = object;
+        }
+
+        public Type getType() {
+            return type;
+        }
+
+        public void acquire() {
+            ++count;
+        }
+
+        public boolean release() {
+            return --count == 0;
+        }
+
+        private final Type type;
+        @SuppressWarnings("unused")
+        private final Object object;
+        private int count = 1;
+    }
+
+    private final HashMap<String, LinkedList<RefHolder>> refHolders = new HashMap<String, LinkedList<RefHolder>>();
+        // from OID (String) to LinkedList of RefHolder
+
+    private boolean hasRefHolder(String oid, Type type) {
+        synchronized (refHolders) {
+            LinkedList<RefHolder> l = refHolders.get(oid);
+            if (l != null) {
+                for (RefHolder rh : l) {
+                    if (type.isSupertypeOf(rh.getType())) {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    final void addRefHolder(Object obj, Type type, String oid) {
+        synchronized (refHolders) {
+            LinkedList<RefHolder> l = refHolders.get(oid);
+            if (l == null) {
+                l = new LinkedList<RefHolder>();
+                refHolders.put(oid, l);
+            }
+            boolean found = false;
+            for (Iterator<RefHolder> i = l.iterator(); !found && i.hasNext();) {
+                RefHolder rh = i.next();
+                if (rh.getType().equals(type)) {
+                    found = true;
+                    rh.acquire();
+                }
+            }
+            if (!found) {
+                l.add(new RefHolder(type, obj));
+            }
+        }
+        acquire();
+    }
+
+    final void remRefHolder(Type type, String oid) {
+        synchronized (refHolders) {
+            LinkedList<RefHolder> l = refHolders.get(oid);
+            if (l == null) {
+                return;
+            }
+            for (RefHolder rh : l) {
+                if (rh.getType().equals(type)) {
+                    try {
+                        if (rh.release()) {
+                            l.remove(rh);
+                            if (l.isEmpty()) {
+                                refHolders.remove(oid);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    } finally {
+                        release();
+                    }
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    final void freeHolders() {
+        synchronized (refHolders) {
+            for (Iterator<Map.Entry<String,LinkedList<RefHolder>>> i1 = refHolders.entrySet().iterator(); i1.hasNext();)
+            {
+                Map.Entry<String,LinkedList<RefHolder>> e = i1.next();
+                String oid = e.getKey();
+                LinkedList<RefHolder> l = e.getValue();
+                for (Iterator<RefHolder> i2 = l.iterator(); i2.hasNext();) {
+                    RefHolder rh = i2.next();
+                    for (boolean done = false; !done;) {
+                        done = rh.release();
+                        _java_environment.revokeInterface(oid, rh.getType());
+                        release();
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            refHolders.clear();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public java_remote_bridge(
+        IEnvironment java_environment, IEnvironment remote_environment,
+        Object[] args)
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        _java_environment = java_environment;
+        String proto = (String) args[0];
+        _xConnection = (XConnection) args[1];
+        _xInstanceProvider = (XInstanceProvider) args[2];
+        if (args.length > 3) {
+            _name = (String) args[3];
+        }
+        String attr;
+        int i = proto.indexOf(',');
+        if (i >= 0) {
+            protocol = proto.substring(0, i);
+            attr = proto.substring(i + 1);
+        } else {
+            protocol = proto;
+            attr = null;
+        }
+        _iProtocol = (IProtocol) Class.forName(
+            "com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols." + protocol + "." + protocol).
+            getConstructor(
+                new Class[] {
+                    IBridge.class, String.class, InputStream.class,
+                    OutputStream.class }).
+            newInstance(
+                new Object[] {
+                    this, attr,
+                    new XConnectionInputStream_Adapter(_xConnection),
+                    new XConnectionOutputStream_Adapter(_xConnection) });
+        proxyFactory = new ProxyFactory(this, this);
+        _iThreadPool = ThreadPoolManager.create();
+        _messageDispatcher = new MessageDispatcher();
+        _messageDispatcher.start();
+        _iProtocol.init();
+    }
+
+    private void notifyListeners() {
+        EventObject eventObject = new EventObject(this);
+
+        Iterator<XEventListener> elements = _listeners.iterator();
+        while(elements.hasNext()) {
+            XEventListener xEventListener = elements.next();
+
+            try {
+                xEventListener.disposing(eventObject);
+            }
+            catch(com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException runtimeException) {
+                // we are here not interested in any exceptions
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new bridge.
+     * <p> This method is not part of the provided <code>api</code>
+     * and should only be used by the UNO runtime.</p>
+     *
+     * @param  args the custom parameters: arg[0] == protocol_name,
+     * arg[1] == xConnection, arg[2] == xInstanceProvider.
+     *
+     * @deprecated as of UDK 1.0
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public java_remote_bridge(Object args[]) throws Exception {
+        this(UnoRuntime.getEnvironment("java", null), UnoRuntime.getEnvironment("remote", null), args);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge#mapInterfaceTo
+     */
+    public Object mapInterfaceTo(Object object, Type type) {
+        checkDisposed();
+        if (object == null) {
+            return null;
+        } else {
+            String[] oid = new String[1];
+            object = _java_environment.registerInterface(object, oid, type);
+            if (!proxyFactory.isProxy(object)) {
+                // This branch must be taken iff object either is no proxy at
+                // all or a proxy from some other bridge.  There are objects
+                // that behave like objects for this bridge but that are not
+                // detected as such by proxyFactory.isProxy.  The only known
+                // case of such objects is com.sun.star.comp.beans.Wrapper,
+                // which implements com.sun.star.lib.uno.Proxy and effectively
+                // is a second proxy around a proxy that can be from this
+                // bridge.  For that case, there is no problem, however:  Since
+                // the proxies generated by ProxyFactory send each
+                // queryInterface to the original object (i.e., they do not
+                // short-circuit requests for a super-interface to themselves),
+                // there will always be an appropriate ProxyFactory-proxy
+                // registered at the _java_environment, so that the object
+                // returned by _java_environment.registerInterface will never be
+                // a com.sun.star.comp.beans.Wrapper.
+                addRefHolder(object, type, oid[0]);
+            }
+            return oid[0];
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Maps an object from destination environment to the source environment.
+     *
+     * @param      oId        the object to map.
+     * @param      type       the interface under which is to be mapped.
+     * @return     the object in the source environment.
+     *
+     * @see                   com.sun.star.uno.IBridge#mapInterfaceFrom
+     */
+    public Object mapInterfaceFrom(Object oId, Type type) {
+        checkDisposed();
+        // TODO  What happens if an exception is thrown after the call to
+        // acquire, but before it is guaranteed that a pairing release will be
+        // called eventually?
+        acquire();
+        String oid = (String) oId;
+        Object object = _java_environment.getRegisteredInterface(oid, type);
+        if (object == null) {
+            object = _java_environment.registerInterface(
+                proxyFactory.create(oid, type), new String[] { oid }, type);
+                // the proxy sends a release when finalized
+        } else if (!hasRefHolder(oid, type)) {
+            sendInternalRequest(oid, type, "release", null);
+        }
+        return object;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives the source environment.
+     *
+     * @return   the source environment of this bridge.
+     * @see      com.sun.star.uno.IBridge#getSourceEnvironment
+     */
+    public IEnvironment getSourceEnvironment() {
+        return _java_environment;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives the destination environment.
+     *
+     * @return   the destination environment of this bridge.
+     * @see      com.sun.star.uno.IBridge#getTargetEnvironment
+     */
+    public IEnvironment getTargetEnvironment() {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Increases the life count.
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge#acquire
+     */
+    public void acquire() {
+        if(DEBUG) {
+            int x = _life_count.incrementAndGet();
+            System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".acquire:" + x);
+        } else {
+            _life_count.incrementAndGet();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Decreases the life count.
+     *
+     * <p>If the life count drops to zero, the bridge disposes itself.</p>
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge#release
+     */
+    public void release() {
+        int x = _life_count.decrementAndGet();
+        if (x <= 0) {
+            dispose(new Throwable("end of life"));
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void dispose() {
+        dispose(new Throwable("user dispose"));
+    }
+
+    private void dispose(Throwable throwable) {
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if (disposed) {
+                return;
+            }
+            disposed = true;
+        }
+
+        notifyListeners();
+        for (Iterator<DisposeListener> i = disposeListeners.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+            i.next().notifyDispose(this);
+        }
+
+        _iProtocol.terminate();
+
+        try {
+            _messageDispatcher.terminate();
+
+            try {
+                _xConnection.close();
+            } catch (com.sun.star.io.IOException e) {
+                System.err.println(
+                    getClass().getName() + ".dispose - IOException:" + e);
+            }
+
+            if (Thread.currentThread() != _messageDispatcher
+                && _messageDispatcher.isAlive())
+            {
+                _messageDispatcher.join(1000);
+                if (_messageDispatcher.isAlive()) {
+                    _messageDispatcher.interrupt();
+                    _messageDispatcher.join();
+                }
+            }
+
+            // interrupt all jobs queued by this bridge
+            _iThreadPool.dispose(throwable);
+
+            // release all out-mapped objects and all in-mapped proxies:
+            freeHolders();
+            // assert _java_environment instanceof java_environment;
+            ((java_environment) _java_environment).revokeAllProxies();
+
+            proxyFactory.dispose();
+
+            if (DEBUG) {
+                if (_life_count.get() != 0) {
+                    System.err.println(getClass().getName()
+                                       + ".dispose - life count (proxies left):"
+                                       + _life_count);
+                }
+                _java_environment.list();
+            }
+
+            // clear members
+            _xConnection        = null;
+            _java_environment   = null;
+            _messageDispatcher  = null;
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            System.err.println(getClass().getName()
+                               + ".dispose - InterruptedException:" + e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge#getInstance
+     */
+    public Object getInstance(String instanceName) {
+        Type t = new Type(XInterface.class);
+        return sendInternalRequest(
+            instanceName, t, "queryInterface", new Object[] { t });
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives the name of this bridge.
+     *
+     * @return  the name of this bridge.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge#getName
+     */
+    public String getName() {
+        return _name;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives a description of the connection type and protocol used.
+     *
+     * @return  connection type and protocol.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.bridge.XBridge#getDescription
+     */
+    public String getDescription() {
+        return protocol + "," + _xConnection.getDescription();
+    }
+
+    public void sendReply(boolean exception, ThreadId threadId, Object result) {
+        if (DEBUG) {
+            System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".sendReply: "
+                               + exception + " " + result);
+        }
+
+        checkDisposed();
+
+        try {
+            _iProtocol.writeReply(exception, threadId, result);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            dispose(e);
+            throw (DisposedException)
+                (new DisposedException("unexpected " + e).initCause(e));
+        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            dispose(e);
+            throw e;
+        } catch (Error e) {
+            dispose(e);
+            throw e;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public Object sendRequest(
+        String oid, Type type, String operation, Object[] params)
+        throws Throwable
+    {
+        Object result = null;
+
+        checkDisposed();
+
+        ThreadId threadId = _iThreadPool.getThreadId();
+        Object handle = _iThreadPool.attach(threadId);
+        try {
+            boolean sync;
+            try {
+                sync = _iProtocol.writeRequest(
+                    oid, TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(type), operation,
+                    threadId, params);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                dispose(e);
+                throw (DisposedException)
+                    new DisposedException(e.toString()).initCause(e);
+            }
+            if (sync && Thread.currentThread() != _messageDispatcher) {
+                result = _iThreadPool.enter(handle, threadId);
+            }
+        } finally {
+            _iThreadPool.detach(handle, threadId);
+            if(operation.equals("release"))
+                release(); // kill this bridge, if this was the last proxy
+        }
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".sendRequest left:" + result);
+
+        // On the wire (at least in URP), the result of queryInterface is
+        // transported as an ANY, but in Java it shall be transported as a
+        // direct reference to the UNO object (represented as a Java Object),
+        // never boxed in a com.sun.star.uno.Any:
+        if (operation.equals("queryInterface") && result instanceof Any) {
+            Any a = (Any) result;
+            if (a.getType().getTypeClass() == TypeClass.INTERFACE) {
+                result = a.getObject();
+            } else {
+                result = null; // should never happen
+            }
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    private Object sendInternalRequest(
+        String oid, Type type, String operation, Object[] arguments)
+    {
+        try {
+            return sendRequest(oid, type, operation, arguments);
+        } catch (Error e) {
+            throw e;
+        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            throw e;
+        } catch (Throwable e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected " + e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Methods XComponent.
+     */
+    public void addEventListener(XEventListener xEventListener) {
+        _listeners.add(xEventListener);
+    }
+
+    public void removeEventListener(XEventListener xEventListener) {
+        _listeners.remove(xEventListener);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see DisposeNotifier#addDisposeListener
+     */
+    public void addDisposeListener(DisposeListener listener) {
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if (!disposed) {
+                disposeListeners.add(listener);
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+        listener.notifyDispose(this);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This function must only be called while synchronized on this object.
+     */
+    private synchronized void checkDisposed() {
+        if (disposed) {
+            throw new DisposedException("java_remote_bridge " + this
+                                        + " is disposed");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final ProxyFactory proxyFactory;
+
+    // Access to disposeListeners must be synchronized on <CODE>this</CODE>:
+    private final ArrayList<DisposeListener> disposeListeners = new ArrayList<DisposeListener>();
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/java/java_environment.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/java/java_environment.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..89e4b1088
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/java/java_environment.java
@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.java;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue;
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+/**
+ * The java_environment is the environment where objects and
+ * interfaces are registered, which are mapped out of java or
+ * into java.
+ *
+ * <p>The java_environment implements the <code>IEnvironment</code> interface
+ * defined in the uno runtime.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment
+ * @since UDK1.0
+ */
+public final class java_environment implements IEnvironment {
+    public java_environment(Object context) {
+        this.context = context;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment#getContext
+     */
+    public Object getContext() {
+        return context;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment#getName
+     */
+    public String getName() {
+        return "java";
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment#registerInterface
+     */
+    public Object registerInterface(Object object, String[] oid, Type type) {
+        if (oid[0] == null) {
+            oid[0] = UnoRuntime.generateOid(object);
+        }
+        return (isProxy(object) ? proxies : localObjects).register(
+            object, oid[0], type);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * You have to revoke ANY interface that has been registered via this
+     * method.
+     *
+     * @param oid object id of interface to be revoked.
+     * @param type the type description of the interface.
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment#revokeInterface
+     */
+    public void revokeInterface(String oid, Type type) {
+        if (!proxies.revoke(oid, type)) {
+            localObjects.revoke(oid, type);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves an interface identified by its object id and type from this
+     * environment.
+     *
+     * @param oid object id of interface to be retrieved.
+     * @param type the type description of the interface to be retrieved.
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment#getRegisteredInterface
+     */
+    public Object getRegisteredInterface(String oid, Type type) {
+        Object o = proxies.get(oid, type);
+        if (o == null) {
+            o = localObjects.get(oid, type);
+        }
+        return o;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves the object identifier for a registered interface from this
+     * environment.
+     *
+     * @param object a registered interface.
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment#getRegisteredObjectIdentifier
+     */
+    public String getRegisteredObjectIdentifier(Object object) {
+        return UnoRuntime.generateOid(object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment#list
+     */
+    public void list() {
+// TODO???
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Revokes all registered proxy interfaces.
+     *
+     * <p>This method should be part of <code>IEnvironment</code>.  It is called
+     * from <code>com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote.<!--
+     * -->java_remote_bridge.dispose</code>.</p>
+     */
+    public void revokeAllProxies() {
+        proxies.clear();
+    }
+
+    // TODO  What's this???  java.lang.Object#equals requires reflexivity...
+    //
+    // Maybe this was hacked in so that different bridges use different
+    // instances of java_environment.  That is desirable for the following
+    // reason:  An OID is bridged in over bridge A, a proxy is created on the
+    // Java side, and recorded in the java_environment.  The same OID is then
+    // bridged in over another bridge B.  If there were only one
+    // java_environment shared by both bridges, the proxy from bridge A would be
+    // reused.  If now bridge A is taken down programmatically (e.g., because
+    // some controlling code somehow deduced that no objects are mapped over
+    // that bridge any longer), but the proxy is still used by bridge B, using
+    // the proxy would now result in errors.  The explicit API to control
+    // bridges forbids to transparently share proxies between bridges, and using
+    // different java_environment instances for different bridges is the way to
+    // enforce this.
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private static final class Registry {
+        public synchronized Object register(
+            Object object, String oid, Type type)
+        {
+            cleanUp();
+            Level1Entry l1 = level1map.get(oid);
+            if (l1 != null) {
+                Level2Entry l2 = l1.level2map.get(type);
+                if (l2 != null) {
+                    Object o = l2.get();
+                    if (o != null) {
+                        l2.acquire();
+                        return o;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            // TODO  If a holder references an unreachable object, but still has
+            // a positive count, it is replaced with a new holder (referencing a
+            // reachable object, and with a count of 1).  Any later calls to
+            // revoke that should decrement the count of the previous holder
+            // would now decrement the count of the new holder, removing it
+            // prematurely.  This is a design flaw that will be fixed when
+            // IEnvironment.revokeInterface is changed to no longer use
+            // counting.  (And this problem is harmless, as currently a holder
+            // either references a strongly held object and uses register/revoke
+            // to control it, or references a weakly held proxy and never
+            // revokes it.)
+            if (l1 == null) {
+                l1 = new Level1Entry();
+                level1map.put(oid, l1);
+            }
+            l1.level2map.put(type, new Level2Entry(oid, type, object, queue));
+            return object;
+        }
+
+        public synchronized boolean revoke(String oid, Type type) {
+            Level1Entry l1 = level1map.get(oid);
+            Level2Entry l2 = null;
+            if (l1 != null) {
+                l2 = l1.level2map.get(type);
+                if (l2 != null && l2.release()) {
+                    removeLevel2Entry(l1, oid, type);
+                }
+            }
+            cleanUp();
+            return l2 != null;
+        }
+
+        public synchronized Object get(String oid, Type type) {
+            Level1Entry l1 = level1map.get(oid);
+            return l1 == null ? null : l1.find(type);
+        }
+
+        public synchronized void clear() {
+            level1map.clear();
+            cleanUp();
+        }
+
+        // must only be called while synchronized on this Registry:
+        private void cleanUp() {
+            for (;;) {
+                Object tmp = queue.poll();
+                Level2Entry l2 = (Level2Entry) tmp;
+                if (l2 == null) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                // It is possible that a Level2Entry e1 for the OID/type pair
+                // (o,t) becomes weakly reachable, then another Level2Entry e2
+                // is registered for the same pair (o,t) (a new Level2Entry is
+                // created since now e1.get() == null), and only then e1 is
+                // enqueued.  To not erroneously remove the new e2 in that case,
+                // check whether the map still contains e1:
+                Level1Entry l1 = level1map.get(l2.oid);
+                if (l1 != null && l1.level2map.get(l2.type) == l2) {
+                    removeLevel2Entry(l1, l2.oid, l2.type);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // must only be called while synchronized on this Registry:
+        private void removeLevel2Entry(Level1Entry l1, String oid, Type type) {
+            l1.level2map.remove(type);
+            if (l1.level2map.isEmpty()) {
+                level1map.remove(oid);
+            }
+        }
+
+        private static final class Level1Entry {
+            // must only be called while synchronized on enclosing Registry:
+            public Object find(Type type) {
+                // First, look for an exactly matching entry; then, look for an
+                // arbitrary entry for a subtype of the request type:
+                Level2Entry l2 = level2map.get(type);
+                if (l2 != null) {
+                    Object o = l2.get();
+                    if (o != null) {
+                        return o;
+                    }
+                }
+                for (Iterator<Level2Entry> i = level2map.values().iterator();
+                     i.hasNext();)
+                {
+                    l2 = i.next();
+                    if (type.isSupertypeOf(l2.type)) {
+                        Object o = l2.get();
+                        if (o != null) {
+                            return o;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            public final HashMap<Type, Level2Entry> level2map =
+                new HashMap<Type, Level2Entry>();
+        }
+
+        private static final class Level2Entry extends WeakReference<Object> {
+            public Level2Entry(
+                String oid, Type type, Object object, ReferenceQueue<Object> queue)
+            {
+                super(object, queue);
+                this.oid = oid;
+                this.type = type;
+            }
+
+            // must only be called while synchronized on enclosing Registry:
+            public void acquire() {
+                ++count;
+            }
+
+            // must only be called while synchronized on enclosing Registry:
+            public boolean release() {
+                return --count == 0;
+            }
+
+            public final String oid;
+            public final Type type;
+
+            private int count = 1;
+        }
+
+        private final HashMap<String, Level1Entry> level1map =
+            new HashMap<String, Level1Entry>();
+        private final ReferenceQueue<Object> queue = new ReferenceQueue<Object>();
+    }
+
+    private boolean isProxy(Object object) {
+        return object instanceof com.sun.star.lib.uno.Proxy;
+    }
+
+    private static final Registry localObjects = new Registry();
+
+    private final Object context;
+    private final Registry proxies = new Registry();
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IProtocol.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IProtocol.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c2ecbf9a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IProtocol.java
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * An abstraction of remote bridge protocols.
+ *
+ * <p>A class implementing a given protocol <var>prot</var> must be named
+ * <code>com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols.<var>prot</var>.<var>prot</var></code>
+ * and must have a public constructor that takes four arguments:  The first
+ * argument of type <code>com.sun.star.uno.IBridge</code> must not be null.  The
+ * second argument of type <code>String</code> represents any attributes; it may
+ * be null if there are no attributes.  The third argument of type
+ * <code>java.io.InputStream</code> must not be null.  The fourth argument of
+ * type <code>java.io.OutputStream</code> must not be null.</p>
+ */
+public interface IProtocol {
+    /**
+     * Initializes the connection.
+     *
+     * <p>This method must be called exactly once, after the
+     * <code>readMessage</code> loop has already been established.</p>
+     */
+    void init() throws IOException;
+
+    void terminate();
+
+    /**
+     * Reads a request or reply message.
+     *
+     * <p>Access to this method from multiple threads must be properly
+     * synchronized.</p>
+     *
+     * @return a non-null message; if the input stream is exhausted, a
+     *     <code>java.io.IOException</code> is thrown instead.
+     */
+    Message readMessage() throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Writes a request message.
+     *
+     * @param oid a non-null OID.
+     * @param type a non-null UNO type.
+     * @param function a non-null function (the name of a UNO interface method
+     *     or attribute compatible with the given <code>type</code>, or either
+     *     <code>"queryInterface"</code> or <code>"release"</code>).
+     * @param tid a non-null TID.
+     * @param arguments a list of UNO arguments compatible with the given
+     *     <code>type</code> and <code>function</code>; may be null to represent
+     *     an empty list.
+     * @return <code>true</code> if the request message is sent as a synchronous
+     *     request.
+     */
+    boolean writeRequest(
+        String oid, TypeDescription type, String function, ThreadId tid,
+        Object[] arguments)
+        throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Writes a reply message.
+     *
+     * @param exception <code>true</code> if the reply corresponds to a raised
+     *     exception.
+     * @param tid a non-null TID.
+     * @param result if <code>exception</code> is <code>true</code>, a non-null
+     *     UNO exception; otherwise, a UNO return value, which may be null to
+     *     represent a <code>VOID</code> return value.
+     */
+    void writeReply(boolean exception, ThreadId tid, Object result)
+        throws IOException;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IReceiver.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IReceiver.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e39ae3d4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IReceiver.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+/**
+ * An abstraction for giving back a reply for a request.
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IQueryInterface
+ */
+public interface IReceiver {
+    /**
+     * Send back a reply for a request.
+     *
+     * @param exception <CODE>true</CODE> if an exception (instead of a normal
+     *     result) is sent back.
+     * @param threadId the thread ID of the request.
+     * @param result the result of executing the request, or an exception thrown
+     *     while executing the request.
+     */
+    void sendReply(boolean exception, ThreadId threadId, Object result);
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IThreadPool.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IThreadPool.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1de31ad04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/IThreadPool.java
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+/**
+ * This interface is an abstraction of the various threadpool implementations.
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadPoolManager
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public interface IThreadPool {
+    /**
+     * Retrieves the global threadId for the current thread.
+     *
+     * @return the thread id.
+     */
+    ThreadId getThreadId();
+
+    /**
+     * Attaches this thread to the thread pool.
+     *
+     * @see                 #enter
+     */
+    void attach();
+
+    /**
+     * As above, but hands in an already existing instance of the threadid of
+     * the current thread.
+     *
+     * <p>The function exists for performance.</p>
+     *
+     * @return Returns a handle which can be used in enter and detach calls.
+     * @see #attach
+     */
+    Object attach( ThreadId id );
+
+    /**
+     * Detaches this thread from the thread pool.
+     * @see                 #enter
+     */
+    void detach();
+
+    /**
+     * As above, but hands in an already existing instance of the threadid of
+     * the current thread and a handle returned by attach.
+     *
+     * <p>The function exists for performance.</p>
+     *
+     * @see #attach()
+     * @see #detach()
+     */
+    void detach( Object handle, ThreadId id );
+
+    /**
+     * Lets this thread enter the thread pool.
+     *
+     * <p>This thread then executes all jobs put via <code>putJob</code> until
+     * a reply job arrives.</p>
+     *
+     * @see                 #putJob
+     */
+    Object enter() throws Throwable;
+
+    /**
+     * As above but hands in an already existing instance of the threadid of
+     * the current thread and a handle returned by attach.
+     *
+     * <p>This thread then executes all jobs put via <code>putJob</code> until
+     * a reply job arrives.</p>
+     *
+     * @see                 #putJob
+     */
+    Object enter( Object handle, ThreadId id ) throws Throwable;
+
+    /**
+     * Queues a job into the jobQueue of the thread belonging to the jobs
+     * threadId.
+     *
+     * @param job       the job
+     */
+    void putJob(Job job);
+
+    /**
+     * Disposes this thread pool, thus releasing all threads by throwing a
+     * <code>DisposedException</code> with the given <code>Throwable</code> cause.
+     *
+     * @param throwable   the cause
+     */
+    void dispose(Throwable throwable);
+
+
+    /**
+     * Destroys the thread pool and tries to join all created threads immediately.
+     */
+    void destroy();
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JavaThreadPool.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JavaThreadPool.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..332306be0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JavaThreadPool.java
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+/**
+ * This class implements a java thread pool.
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.NativeThreadPool
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.IThreadPool
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Job
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.JobQueue
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class JavaThreadPool implements IThreadPool {
+    /**
+     * When set to true, enables various debugging output.
+     */
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    JavaThreadPoolFactory _javaThreadPoolFactory;
+
+    JavaThreadPool(JavaThreadPoolFactory javaThreadPoolFactory) {
+        _javaThreadPoolFactory = javaThreadPoolFactory;
+    }
+
+    public ThreadId getThreadId() {
+        return JavaThreadPoolFactory.getThreadId();
+    }
+
+    public Object attach( ThreadId threadId )
+    {
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".attach - id:" + threadId);
+        JobQueue jobQueue = _javaThreadPoolFactory.getJobQueue(threadId);
+        if(jobQueue == null)
+            jobQueue = new JobQueue(_javaThreadPoolFactory, threadId, false);
+
+        // acquiring the jobQueue registers it at the ThreadPoolFactory
+        jobQueue.acquire();
+        return jobQueue;
+    }
+
+    public void attach() {
+        attach( getThreadId() );
+    }
+
+    public void detach( Object handle, ThreadId id )
+    {
+        ((JobQueue)handle).release();
+    }
+
+    public void detach() {
+        ThreadId threadId =  getThreadId();
+        detach(_javaThreadPoolFactory.getJobQueue(threadId), threadId );
+    }
+
+
+    public Object enter( ) throws Throwable {
+        ThreadId threadId = getThreadId();
+        return enter( _javaThreadPoolFactory.getJobQueue( threadId ), threadId  );
+    }
+
+    public Object enter( Object handle, ThreadId threadId ) throws Throwable {
+        return ((JobQueue)handle).enter(this);
+    }
+
+    public void putJob(Job job) {
+        if (!job.isRequest() || job.isSynchronous()) {
+            JobQueue jobQueue = _javaThreadPoolFactory.getJobQueue(job.getThreadId());
+
+            // this has not be synchronized, cause
+            // sync jobs can only come over one bridge
+            // (cause the thread blocks on other side)
+            if(jobQueue == null)
+                jobQueue = new JobQueue(_javaThreadPoolFactory, job.getThreadId(), true);
+
+            // put job acquires the queue and registers it at the ThreadPoolFactory
+            jobQueue.putJob(job, this);
+        }
+        else {
+            // this has to be synchronized, cause
+            // async jobs of the same thread can come
+            // over different bridges
+            synchronized(_javaThreadPoolFactory) {
+                JobQueue async_jobQueue = _javaThreadPoolFactory.getAsyncJobQueue(job.getThreadId());
+
+                // ensure there is jobQueue
+                if(async_jobQueue == null) // so, there is really no async queue
+                    async_jobQueue = new JobQueue(_javaThreadPoolFactory, job.getThreadId());
+
+                // put job acquires the queue and registers it at the ThreadPoolFactory
+                async_jobQueue.putJob(job, this);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void dispose(Throwable throwable) {
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".dispose:" + throwable);
+
+        _javaThreadPoolFactory.dispose(this, throwable);
+    }
+
+    public void destroy() {
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JavaThreadPoolFactory.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JavaThreadPoolFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..181a3e17e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JavaThreadPoolFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.WeakHashMap;
+
+final class JavaThreadPoolFactory {
+
+    public IThreadPool createThreadPool() {
+        return new JavaThreadPool(this);
+    }
+
+    public void addJobQueue(JobQueue jobQueue) {
+        synchronized (jobQueues) {
+            jobQueues.put(jobQueue.getThreadId(), jobQueue);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void removeJobQueue(JobQueue jobQueue) {
+        synchronized (jobQueues) {
+            jobQueues.remove(jobQueue.getThreadId());
+        }
+    }
+
+    public JobQueue getJobQueue(ThreadId threadId) {
+        synchronized (jobQueues) {
+            return jobQueues.get(threadId);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public JobQueue getAsyncJobQueue(ThreadId threadId) {
+        JobQueue q = getJobQueue(threadId);
+        return q == null ? null : q._async_jobQueue;
+    }
+
+    public void dispose(Object disposeId, Throwable throwable) {
+        JobQueue[] qs;
+        synchronized (jobQueues) {
+            Collection<JobQueue> c = jobQueues.values();
+            qs = c.toArray(new JobQueue[c.size()]);
+        }
+        for (int i = 0; i < qs.length; ++i) {
+            qs[i].dispose(disposeId, throwable);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static ThreadId getThreadId() {
+        Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
+        if (t instanceof JobQueue.JobDispatcher) {
+            return ((JobQueue.JobDispatcher) t).getThreadId();
+        } else {
+            ThreadId id;
+            synchronized (threadIdMap) {
+                id = threadIdMap.get(t);
+                if (id == null) {
+                    id = ThreadId.createFresh();
+                    threadIdMap.put(t, id);
+                }
+            }
+            return id;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final WeakHashMap<Thread, ThreadId> threadIdMap = new WeakHashMap<Thread, ThreadId>();
+    private final HashMap<ThreadId, JobQueue> jobQueues = new HashMap<ThreadId, JobQueue>();
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/Job.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/Job.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ec4492c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/Job.java
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.MethodDescription;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Any;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XCurrentContext;
+
+/**
+ * The Job is an abstraction for tasks which have to be done
+ * remotely because of a method invocation.
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.IReceiver
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class Job {
+    protected IReceiver _iReceiver;
+    protected Message  _iMessage;
+              Object    _disposeId;
+
+    protected Object    _object;
+
+    public Job(Object object, IReceiver iReceiver, Message iMessage) {
+        _object       = object;
+        _iReceiver    = iReceiver;
+        _iMessage     = iMessage;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Dispatches a <code>queryInterface</code> call.
+     *
+     * @return  the result of the call (should be an <code>Any</code>).
+     */
+    protected Object dispatch_queryInterface(Type type) {
+        Class<?> zInterface = type.getTypeDescription().getZClass();
+
+        Object result = null;
+
+        Object face = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(zInterface, _object);
+        // the hell knows why, but empty interfaces a given back as void anys
+        if(face != null)
+            result = new Any(type, face);
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Execute the job.
+     *
+     * @return the result of the message.
+     */
+    public Object execute() throws Throwable {
+        if (_iMessage.isRequest()) {
+            Object result = null;
+            Throwable exception = null;
+            MethodDescription md = _iMessage.getMethod();
+            Object[] args = _iMessage.getArguments();
+            XCurrentContext oldCC = UnoRuntime.getCurrentContext();
+            UnoRuntime.setCurrentContext(_iMessage.getCurrentContext());
+            try {
+                result = md.getIndex() == MethodDescription.ID_QUERY_INTERFACE
+                    ? dispatch_queryInterface((Type) args[0])
+                    : md.getMethod().invoke(_object, args);
+            } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+                exception = e.getCause();
+                if (exception == null) {
+                    exception = e;
+                }
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                exception = e;
+            } finally {
+                UnoRuntime.setCurrentContext(oldCC);
+            }
+            if (_iMessage.isSynchronous()) {
+                if (exception == null) {
+                    _iReceiver.sendReply(
+                        false, _iMessage.getThreadId(), result);
+                } else {
+                    // Here we have to be aware of non-UNO exceptions, because
+                    // they may kill a remote side which does not know anything
+                    // about their types:
+                    if (!(exception instanceof com.sun.star.uno.Exception)
+                        && !(exception instanceof
+                             com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException))
+                    {
+                        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+                        exception.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
+                        exception = new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(
+                            "Java exception: <" + writer + ">", null);
+                    }
+                    _iReceiver.sendReply(
+                        true, _iMessage.getThreadId(), exception);
+                }
+            }
+            return null;
+        } else if (_iMessage.isAbnormalTermination()) {
+            throw remoteUnoRequestRaisedException(_iMessage.getResult());
+        } else {
+            return _iMessage.getResult();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public ThreadId getThreadId() {
+        return _iMessage.getThreadId();
+    }
+
+    public boolean isRequest() {
+        return _iMessage.isRequest();
+    }
+
+    public boolean isSynchronous() {
+        return _iMessage.isSynchronous();
+    }
+
+    public void dispose() {
+//          _oId        = null;
+//          _iReceiver  = null;
+//          _threadId   = null;
+//          _object     = null;
+//          _operation  = null;
+//          _param      = null;
+//          _exception  = null;
+//          _zInterface = null;
+//          _disposeId  = null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The name of this method is chosen to generate a somewhat self-explanatory
+     * stack trace.
+     */
+    private Exception remoteUnoRequestRaisedException(Object exception) {
+        Exception e = (Exception) exception;
+        e.fillInStackTrace();
+        return e;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JobQueue.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JobQueue.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b71525ba5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/JobQueue.java
@@ -0,0 +1,373 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+import com.sun.star.lang.DisposedException;
+
+/**
+ * The <code>JobQueue</code> implements a queue for jobs.
+ *
+ * <p>For every jobs thread id exists a job queue which is registered
+ * at the <code>ThreadPool</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>A JobQueue is split into a sync job queue and an async job queue.
+ * The sync job queue is the registered queue, it delegates async jobs
+ * (put by <code>putjob</code>) into the async queue, which is only
+ * known by the sync queue.</p>
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.IThreadPool
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Job
+ * @see         com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId
+ * @since       UDK1.0
+ */
+public class JobQueue {
+    /**
+     * When set to true, enables various debugging output.
+     */
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    final ArrayList<Job> jobList = new ArrayList<Job>();
+
+    private ThreadId  _threadId;       // the thread id of the queue
+    protected int     _ref_count = 0;  // the stack deepness
+    private boolean   _createThread;   // create a worker thread, if needed
+    private boolean   _createThread_now;   // create a worker thread, if needed
+    private Thread    _worker_thread;  // the thread that does the jobs
+
+    private Object    _disposeId; // the active dispose id
+    private Object    _doDispose = null;
+    private Throwable _throwable;
+
+    JobQueue  _async_jobQueue; // chaining job queues for asyncs
+    protected JobQueue  _sync_jobQueue;  // chaining job queues for syncs
+
+    private boolean _active = false;
+
+    private JavaThreadPoolFactory _javaThreadPoolFactory;
+
+    /**
+     * A thread for dispatching jobs.
+     */
+    class JobDispatcher extends Thread {
+        Object _disposeId;
+
+        JobDispatcher(Object disposeId) {
+            super("JobDispatcher");
+
+            if(DEBUG) System.err.println("JobQueue$JobDispatcher.<init>:" + _threadId);
+
+            _disposeId = disposeId;
+        }
+
+        ThreadId getThreadId() {
+            return _threadId;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            if(DEBUG) System.err.println("ThreadPool$JobDispatcher.run: " + Thread.currentThread());
+
+            try {
+                  enter(2000, _disposeId);
+            } catch(Throwable throwable) {
+                synchronized (JobQueue.this) {
+                    if(!jobList.isEmpty() || _active) { // there was a job in progress, so give a stack
+                        System.err.println(getClass().getName() + " - exception occurred:" + throwable);
+                        throwable.printStackTrace(System.err);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            finally {
+                release();
+            }
+
+            if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".run - exit:" + _threadId);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs an async job queue with the given thread id which belongs to
+     * the given sync job queue.
+     *
+     * @param threadId         the thread id.
+     * @see                    com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId
+     */
+    JobQueue(JavaThreadPoolFactory javaThreadPoolFactory, ThreadId threadId) {
+        _javaThreadPoolFactory = javaThreadPoolFactory;
+        _threadId = ThreadId.createFresh();
+
+        _sync_jobQueue    = javaThreadPoolFactory.getJobQueue(threadId);
+        if(_sync_jobQueue == null) {
+            _sync_jobQueue = new JobQueue(javaThreadPoolFactory, threadId, true);
+            _sync_jobQueue.acquire();
+        }
+
+        _sync_jobQueue._async_jobQueue = this;
+
+        _createThread     = true;
+        _createThread_now = true;
+
+        acquire();
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + " - init:" +  _threadId);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a sync job queue with the given thread id and the given thread.
+     *
+     * @param threadId        the thread id.
+     * @param createThread    if true, the queue creates a worker thread if needed.
+     * @see             com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId
+     */
+    JobQueue(JavaThreadPoolFactory javaThreadPoolFactory, ThreadId threadId, boolean createThread){
+        _javaThreadPoolFactory   = javaThreadPoolFactory;
+        _threadId         = threadId;
+        _createThread     = createThread;
+        _createThread_now = createThread;
+
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + " - init:" +  _threadId + " " + createThread);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives the thread id of this queue.
+     *
+     * @return  the thread id.
+     * @see     com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId
+     */
+    ThreadId getThreadId() {
+        return _threadId;
+    }
+
+    synchronized void acquire() {
+        // add only synchronous queues .
+        if(_ref_count <= 0 && _sync_jobQueue == null )
+            _javaThreadPoolFactory.addJobQueue(this);
+
+        ++ _ref_count;
+    }
+
+    synchronized void release() {
+        -- _ref_count;
+
+        if(_ref_count <= 0) {
+            // only synchronous queues needs to be removed .
+            if( _sync_jobQueue == null )
+                _javaThreadPoolFactory.removeJobQueue(this);
+
+
+            if(_sync_jobQueue != null) {
+                _sync_jobQueue._async_jobQueue = null;
+                _sync_jobQueue.release();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Removes a job from the queue.
+     *
+     * @param  waitTime the maximum amount of time to wait for a job.
+     * @return a job or null if timed out.
+     */
+    private Job removeJob(int waitTime) {
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".removeJob:" + jobList + " " + _threadId);
+
+        Job job = null;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            // wait max. waitTime time for a job to enter the queue
+            boolean waited = false;
+            while(jobList.isEmpty() && (waitTime == 0 || !waited)) {
+                if(_doDispose == _disposeId) {
+                    _doDispose = null;
+                    throw (DisposedException)
+                        new DisposedException().initCause(_throwable);
+                }
+
+                // notify sync queues
+                notifyAll();
+
+                try {
+                    // wait for new job
+                    wait(waitTime);
+                } catch(InterruptedException interruptedException) {
+                      throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(getClass().getName() + ".removeJob - unexpected:" + interruptedException);
+                }
+
+                // signal that we have already waited once
+                waited = true;
+            }
+
+
+            if(!jobList.isEmpty()) {
+                job = jobList.remove(0);
+                _active = true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // always wait for asynchron jobqueue to be finished !
+        if(job != null && _async_jobQueue != null) {
+            synchronized(_async_jobQueue) {
+                // wait for async queue to be empty and last job to be done
+                while(_async_jobQueue._active || !_async_jobQueue.jobList.isEmpty()) {
+                    if(DEBUG) System.err.println("waiting for async:" + _async_jobQueue.jobList + " " +  _async_jobQueue._worker_thread);
+
+                    if(_doDispose == _disposeId) {
+                        _doDispose = null;
+                        throw (DisposedException)
+                            new DisposedException().initCause(_throwable);
+                    }
+
+                    try {
+                        _async_jobQueue.wait();
+                    } catch(InterruptedException interruptedException) {
+                        throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(getClass().getName() + ".removeJob - unexpected:" + interruptedException);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return job;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Puts a job into the queue.
+     *
+     * @param  job        the job.
+     * @param  disposeId  a dispose id.
+     */
+    synchronized void putJob(Job job, Object disposeId) {
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".putJob todoes: " + " job:" + job);
+
+        jobList.add(job);
+
+        if(_worker_thread == null && _createThread && _createThread_now) { // if there is no thread, which dispatches and if shall create one, create one
+
+            acquire();
+
+            _createThread_now = false;
+            new JobDispatcher(disposeId).start();
+        }
+
+        // always notify possible waiters
+        notifyAll();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Enters the job queue.
+     *
+     * @param  disposeId  a dispose id.
+     * @return the result of the final job (reply).
+     */
+    Object enter(Object disposeId) throws Throwable {
+        return enter(0, disposeId); // wait infinitely
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Enters the job queue.
+     *
+     * @param  waitTime   the maximum amount of time to wait for a job (0 means wait infinitely).
+     * @param  disposeId  a dispose id.
+     * @return the result of the final job (reply).
+     */
+    Object enter(int waitTime, Object disposeId) throws Throwable {
+        if(DEBUG) System.err.println("#####" + getClass().getName() + ".enter: " + _threadId);
+
+        boolean quit = false;
+
+        Object hold_disposeId = _disposeId;
+        _disposeId = disposeId;
+
+        Object result = null;
+
+        Thread hold_worker_thread = _worker_thread;
+        _worker_thread = Thread.currentThread();
+
+        while(!quit) {
+            Job job = null;
+
+            try {
+                job = removeJob(waitTime);
+
+                if(job != null) {
+                    try {
+                        result = job.execute();
+                    }
+                    finally {
+                        _active = false;
+                    }
+
+                    if (!job.isRequest()) {
+                        job.dispose();
+
+                        quit = true;
+                    }
+
+                    job = null;
+                }
+                else
+                    quit = true;
+
+
+            }
+            finally { // ensure that this queue becomes disposed, if necessary
+                if(DEBUG) System.err.println("##### " + getClass().getName() + ".enter leaving: " + _threadId + " " + _worker_thread + " " + hold_worker_thread + " " + result);
+
+                synchronized(this) {
+                    if(job != null || (quit && jobList.isEmpty())) {
+                        _worker_thread = hold_worker_thread;
+
+                        _createThread_now = true;
+
+                        _disposeId = hold_disposeId;
+
+                        if(_sync_jobQueue != null)
+                            notifyAll(); // notify waiters (e.g. this is an asyncQueue and there is a sync waiting)
+                    }
+                    else
+                        quit = false;
+
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * If the given disposeId is registered, interrupts the worker thread.
+     *
+     * @param disposeId    the dispose id.
+     */
+    synchronized void dispose(Object disposeId, Throwable throwable) {
+        if(_sync_jobQueue == null) { // dispose only sync queues
+            _doDispose = disposeId;
+            _throwable = throwable;
+
+            // get thread out of wait and let it throw the throwable
+            if(DEBUG) System.err.println(getClass().getName() + ".dispose - notifying thread");
+
+            notifyAll();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/Message.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/Message.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b34295ae3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/Message.java
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.MethodDescription;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XCurrentContext;
+
+/**
+ * A remote request or reply message.
+ */
+public class Message {
+    public Message(
+        ThreadId threadId, boolean request, String objectId,
+        TypeDescription type, MethodDescription method, boolean synchronous,
+        XCurrentContext currentContext, boolean abnormalTermination,
+        Object result, Object[] arguments)
+    {
+        this.threadId = threadId;
+        this.request = request;
+        this.objectId = objectId;
+        this.type = type;
+        this.method = method;
+        this.synchronous = synchronous;
+        this.currentContext = currentContext;
+        this.abnormalTermination = abnormalTermination;
+        this.result = result;
+        this.arguments = arguments;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the thread ID of the message.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid for all kinds of messages.</p>
+     *
+     * @return the (non-<code>null</code>) thread ID.
+     */
+    public final ThreadId getThreadId() {
+        return threadId;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns whether the message is a request or a reply.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid for all kinds of messages.</p>
+     *
+     * @return <code>true</code> for a request, <code>false</code> for a reply.
+     */
+    public final boolean isRequest() {
+        return request;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the object ID of a request message.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid only for request messages.</p>
+     *
+     * @return the (non-<code>null</code>) object ID for a request,
+     * <code>null</code> for a reply.
+     */
+    public final String getObjectId() {
+        return objectId;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the type of a request message.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid only for request messages.</p>
+     *
+     * @return the (non-<code>null</code>) type for a request, <code>null</code>
+     * for a reply.
+     */
+    public final TypeDescription getType() {
+        return type;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the method description of a request message.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid only for request messages.  The returned
+     * <code>MethodDescription</code> is consistent with the type of the
+     * message.</p>
+     *
+     * @return the (non-<code>null</code>) method description for a request,
+     * <code>null</code> for a reply.
+     */
+    public final MethodDescription getMethod() {
+        return method;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns whether the request message is synchronous.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid only for request messages.</p>
+     *
+     * @return <code>true</code> for a synchronous request, <code>false</code>
+     * for an asynchronous request or a reply.
+     */
+    public final boolean isSynchronous() {
+        return synchronous;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the current context of a request message.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid only for request messages.</p>
+     *
+     * @return the current context (which may be <code>null</code>) for a
+     * request, <code>null</code> for a reply.
+     */
+    public XCurrentContext getCurrentContext() {
+        return currentContext;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns whether the reply message represents abnormal termination.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid only for reply messages.</p>
+     *
+     * @return <code>true</code> for a reply that represents abnormal
+     * termination, <code>false</code> for a reply that represents normal
+     * termination or a request.
+     */
+    public final boolean isAbnormalTermination() {
+        return abnormalTermination;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the result of a reply message.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid only for reply messages.</p>
+     *
+     * @return any (possibly <code>null</code>) return value for a reply that
+     * represents normal termination, the (non-<code>null</code>) exception for
+     * a reply that represents abnormal termination, <code>null</code> for a
+     * request.
+     */
+    public final Object getResult() {
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the arguments of a message.
+     *
+     * <p>Valid only for request messages and reply messages that represent
+     * normal termination.  Any returned array must not be modified.</p>
+     *
+     * @return the in and in&ndash; {
+     * }out arguments for a request (possibly
+     * <code>null</code> for a parameterless function), the out and in&ndash; {
+     * }out
+     * arguments for a reply that represents normal termination (possibly
+     * <code>null</code> for a parameterless function), <code>null</code> for a
+     * reply that represents abnormal termination.
+     */
+    public final Object[] getArguments() {
+        return arguments;
+    }
+
+    private final ThreadId threadId;
+    private final boolean request;
+    private final String objectId;
+    private final TypeDescription type;
+    private final MethodDescription method;
+    private final boolean synchronous;
+    private final XCurrentContext currentContext;
+    private final boolean abnormalTermination;
+    private final Object result;
+    private final Object[] arguments;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/NativeThreadPool.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/NativeThreadPool.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f77bbb466
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/NativeThreadPool.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+final class NativeThreadPool implements IThreadPool {
+    public NativeThreadPool() {
+        pool = create();
+    }
+
+    public ThreadId getThreadId() {
+        return new ThreadId(threadId());
+    }
+
+    public void attach() {
+        attach(pool);
+    }
+
+    public Object attach(ThreadId id) {
+        attach();
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public void detach() {
+        detach(pool);
+    }
+
+    public void detach(Object handle, ThreadId id) {
+        detach();
+    }
+
+    public Object enter() throws Throwable {
+        Job job = enter(pool);
+        if (job == null) {
+            throw dispose;
+        }
+        return job.execute();
+    }
+
+    public Object enter(Object handle, ThreadId id) throws Throwable {
+        return enter();
+    }
+
+    public void putJob(Job job) {
+        putJob(
+            pool, job.getThreadId().getBytes(), job, job.isRequest(),
+            job.isRequest() && !job.isSynchronous());
+    }
+
+    public void dispose(Throwable throwable) {
+        dispose = throwable;
+        dispose(pool);
+    }
+
+    public void destroy() {
+        destroy(pool);
+    }
+
+    // The native implementation is in
+    // bridges/source/jni_uno/nativethreadpool.cxx:
+    static {
+        System.loadLibrary("java_uno");
+    }
+    private static native byte[] threadId();
+    private static native long create();
+    private static native void attach(long pool);
+    private static native Job enter(long pool);
+    private static native void detach(long pool);
+    private static native void putJob(
+        long pool, byte[] threadId, Job job, boolean request, boolean oneWay);
+    private static native void dispose(long pool);
+    private static native void destroy(long pool);
+
+    private final long pool;
+    private volatile Throwable dispose;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/ThreadId.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/ThreadId.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8dacc78c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/ThreadId.java
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+
+public final class ThreadId {
+    public static ThreadId createFresh() {
+        long c = count.getAndIncrement();
+        try {
+            return new ThreadId((PREFIX + c).getBytes("UTF-8"));
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("this cannot happen: " + e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public ThreadId(byte[] id) {
+        this.id = id;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Indicates whether some other object is equal to this one.
+     *
+     * @param obj the reference object with which to compare.
+     * @return <code>true</code> if this object is the same as the obj argument;
+     * <code>false</code> otherwise.
+     *
+     * @see java.lang.Object#equals
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        return obj instanceof ThreadId
+            && Arrays.equals(id, ((ThreadId) obj).id);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a hash code value for the object.
+     *
+     * @return a hash code value for this object.
+     * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        int h = hash;
+        if (h == 0) {
+            // Same algorithm as java.util.List.hashCode (also see Java 1.5
+            // java.util.Arrays.hashCode(byte[])):
+            h = 1;
+            for (int i = 0; i < id.length; ++i) {
+                h = 31 * h + id[i];
+            }
+            hash = h;
+        }
+        return h;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a string representation of the object.
+     *
+     * @return a string representation of the object.
+     * @see java.lang.Object#toString
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer("[ThreadId:");
+        for (int i = 0; i < id.length; ++i) {
+            String n = Integer.toHexString(id[i] & 0xFF);
+            if (n.length() == 1) {
+                b.append('0');
+            }
+            b.append(n);
+        }
+        b.append(']');
+        return b.toString();
+    }
+
+    public byte[] getBytes() {
+        return id;
+    }
+
+    private static final String PREFIX = "java:" + UnoRuntime.getUniqueKey() + ":";
+    private static final AtomicLong count = new AtomicLong(0);
+
+    private final byte[] id;
+    private int hash = 0;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/ThreadPoolManager.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/ThreadPoolManager.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2014f5167
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/ThreadPoolManager.java
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+/**
+ * Manages the UNO thread pool factory.
+ *
+ * <P>The thread pool factory is a process-wide resource.  It is important that
+ * all UNO environments within a process share the same thread pool mechanisms:
+ * if a synchronous UNO call is bridged out from one local UNO environment over
+ * one remote bridge, and recursively calls back into another local UNO
+ * environment over another remote bridge, the code in the second environment
+ * should be executed in the thread that did the original call from the first
+ * environment.</P>
+ *
+ * <P>There are both a Java and a native thread pool factory.  A pure Java
+ * process will always use the Java thread pool factory.  A mixed process uses
+ * the system property <CODE>org.openoffice.native</CODE> (to be set by the
+ * native code that starts the JVM) to determine which implementation
+ * to use.</P>
+ */
+public final class ThreadPoolManager {
+    /**
+     * Creates a thread pool instance.
+     *
+     * @return a new thread pool instance; will never be <CODE>null</CODE>.
+     */
+    public static synchronized IThreadPool create() {
+        if (useNative) {
+            return new NativeThreadPool();
+        } else {
+            if (javaFactory == null) {
+                javaFactory = new JavaThreadPoolFactory();
+            }
+            return javaFactory.createThreadPool();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Leads to using the native thread pool factory, unless a Java thread pool
+     * has already been created.
+     *
+     * @return <CODE>false</CODE> if a Java thread pool has already been created.
+     */
+    public static synchronized boolean useNative() {
+        useNative = javaFactory == null;
+        return useNative;
+    }
+
+    private static boolean useNative
+    = System.getProperty("org.openoffice.native") != null;
+    private static JavaThreadPoolFactory javaFactory = null;
+
+    private ThreadPoolManager() {} // do not instantiate
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/remote_environment.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/remote_environment.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..09259c8cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/environments/remote/remote_environment.java
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+
+public final class remote_environment implements IEnvironment {
+    public remote_environment(Object context) {
+        this.context = context;
+    }
+
+    public Object getContext() {
+        return context;
+    }
+
+    public String getName() {
+        return "remote";
+    }
+
+    public Object registerInterface(Object object, String[] oid, Type type) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+            "java_remote environment is not functional");
+    }
+
+    public void revokeInterface(String oid, Type type) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+            "java_remote environment is not functional");
+    }
+
+    public Object getRegisteredInterface(String oid, Type type) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+            "java_remote environment is not functional");
+    }
+
+    public String getRegisteredObjectIdentifier(Object object) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+            "java_remote environment is not functional");
+    }
+
+    public void list() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+            "java_remote environment is not functional");
+    }
+
+    private final Object context;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/ComponentBase.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/ComponentBase.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d886ef702
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/ComponentBase.java
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XComponent;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XEventListener;
+import com.sun.star.lang.EventObject;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+
+/** This class can be used as the base class for UNO components. In addition to the functionality ,which
+ *  is inherited from WeakBase, it implements com.sun.star.lang.XComponent.
+ */
+public class ComponentBase extends WeakBase implements XComponent
+{
+    private static final boolean DEBUG= false;
+    protected MultiTypeInterfaceContainer listenerContainer;
+    protected boolean bInDispose= false;
+    protected boolean bDisposed= false;
+    static final Type  EVT_LISTENER_TYPE= new Type(XEventListener.class);
+
+
+    /** Creates a new instance of CompBase */
+    public ComponentBase()
+    {
+        super();
+        listenerContainer= new MultiTypeInterfaceContainer();
+    }
+
+    /** Override to perform extra clean-up work. Provided for subclasses. It is
+        called during dispose()
+     */
+    protected void preDisposing()
+    {
+    }
+    /** Override to become notified right before the disposing action is performed.
+     */
+    protected void postDisposing()
+    {
+    }
+
+
+    /** Method of XComponent. It is called by the owning client when the component is not needed
+     *  anymore. The registered listeners are notified that this method has been called.
+     */
+    public void dispose()
+    {
+        // Determine in a thread-safe way if this is the first call to this method.
+        // Only then we proceed with the notification of event listeners.
+        // It is an error to call this method more than once.
+        boolean bDoDispose= false;
+        synchronized (this)
+        {
+            if ( ! bInDispose && ! bDisposed)
+            {
+                bDoDispose= true;
+                bInDispose= true;
+            }
+        }
+        // The notification occurs in an unsynchronized block in order to avoid
+        // deadlocks if one of the listeners calls back in a different thread on
+        // a synchronized method which uses the same object.
+        if (bDoDispose)
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                preDisposing();
+                listenerContainer.disposeAndClear(new EventObject(this));
+                //notify subclasses that disposing is in progress
+                postDisposing();
+            }
+            finally
+            {
+                // finally makes sure that the  flags are set even if a RuntimeException is thrown.
+                // That ensures that this function is only called once.
+                synchronized (this)
+                {
+                    bDisposed= true;
+                    bInDispose= false;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // in a multithreaded environment, it can't be avoided, that dispose is called twice.
+            // However this condition is traced, because it MAY indicate an error.
+            if (DEBUG)
+                System.out.println("OComponentHelper::dispose() - dispose called twice" );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Method of XComponent.
+     */
+    public void removeEventListener(XEventListener xEventListener)
+    {
+        listenerContainer.removeInterface( EVT_LISTENER_TYPE, xEventListener);
+    }
+
+    public void addEventListener(XEventListener listener)
+    {
+        boolean bDoDispose= false;
+        synchronized (this)
+        {
+            if (bDisposed || bInDispose)
+                bDoDispose= true;
+            else
+               listenerContainer.addInterface(EVT_LISTENER_TYPE, listener);
+        }
+        if (bDoDispose )
+        {
+            listener.disposing( new EventObject(this));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void finalize() throws Throwable
+    {
+        if ( ! bInDispose && ! bDisposed)
+            dispose();
+        super.finalize();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/Factory.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/Factory.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..056d9549d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/Factory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,291 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XInitialization;
+import com.sun.star.registry.XRegistryKey;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+
+
+/** Factory helper class supporting com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo and
+    com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory.
+
+    <p>
+    Note: This factory implementation does not support lang.XSingleServiceFactory.
+    </p>
+*/
+public class Factory
+    extends ComponentBase
+    implements XSingleComponentFactory, XServiceInfo
+{
+    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    /** Creates an object factory supporting interfaces
+        com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory and
+        com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+
+        @param impl_class
+               implementation class
+        @param impl_name
+               implementation name
+        @param supported_services
+               services implemented
+        @return
+               object factory
+
+        @since UDK 3.2.13
+    */
+    public static XSingleComponentFactory createComponentFactory(
+        Class impl_class, String impl_name, String supported_services [] )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return new Factory( impl_class, impl_name, supported_services );
+    }
+
+    /** Creates an object factory supporting interfaces
+        com.sun.star.lang.XSingleComponentFactory and
+        com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
+
+        The implementation name is the name of the implementation class.
+
+        @param impl_class
+               implementation class
+        @param supported_services
+               services implemented
+        @return
+                object factory
+    */
+    public static XSingleComponentFactory createComponentFactory(
+        Class impl_class, String supported_services [] )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
+    {
+        return createComponentFactory(
+            impl_class, impl_class.getName(), supported_services );
+    }
+    /** Writes component's implementation info to given registry key.
+
+        @param impl_name
+               name of implementation
+        @param supported_services
+               supported services of implementation
+        @param xKey
+               registry key to write to
+        @return
+                success
+    */
+    public static boolean writeRegistryServiceInfo(
+        String impl_name, String supported_services [], XRegistryKey xKey )
+    {
+          try
+        {
+            XRegistryKey xNewKey = xKey.createKey( "/" + impl_name + "/UNO/SERVICES" );
+            for ( int nPos = 0; nPos < supported_services.length; ++nPos )
+            {
+                xNewKey.createKey( supported_services[ nPos ] );
+            }
+            return true;
+          }
+          catch (com.sun.star.registry.InvalidRegistryException exc)
+        {
+            if (DEBUG)
+            {
+                System.err.println(
+                    "##### " + Factory.class.getName() + ".writeRegistryServiceInfo -- exc: " +
+                    exc.toString() );
+            }
+          }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+
+    private final String m_impl_name;
+    private final String [] m_supported_services;
+    private final Class<?> m_impl_class;
+    private final java.lang.reflect.Method m_method;
+    private final java.lang.reflect.Constructor m_ctor;
+
+    private Factory(
+        Class impl_class, String impl_name, String supported_services [] )
+                throws com.sun.star.uno.DeploymentException
+    {
+        m_impl_name = impl_name;
+        m_supported_services = supported_services;
+        m_impl_class = impl_class;
+
+        Class params [] = new Class [] { XComponentContext.class };
+
+        if (!java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isPublic( impl_class.getModifiers() ))
+        {
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.DeploymentException("class " + impl_class + " is not public");
+        }
+
+        java.lang.reflect.Method tmpMethod = null;
+        try
+        {
+            // seeking for "public static Object __create( XComponentContext )"
+            tmpMethod = m_impl_class.getMethod( "__create", params );
+            int mod = tmpMethod.getModifiers();
+            if (!tmpMethod.getReturnType().equals( Object.class ) ||
+                !java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isStatic( mod ) ||
+                !java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isPublic( mod ))
+            {
+                tmpMethod = null;
+            }
+        }
+        catch (Exception exc)
+        {
+        }
+        m_method = tmpMethod;
+
+
+        java.lang.reflect.Constructor tmpCtor = null;
+        if (null == m_method)
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                // ctor with context
+                tmpCtor = m_impl_class.getConstructor( params );
+            }
+            catch (Exception exc)
+            {
+            }
+            if (tmpCtor != null)
+            {
+                if (!java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isPublic( tmpCtor.getModifiers() ))
+                {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.DeploymentException("constructor with XComponentContext param for class  " + impl_class + " is not public");
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                // else take default ctor
+                java.lang.reflect.Constructor defaultCtor;
+                try
+                {
+                    defaultCtor = m_impl_class.getConstructor(new Class[0]);
+                }
+                catch (Exception exc2)
+                {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.DeploymentException(exc2, "class " + impl_class + " has no means of creating it, cannot find a __create method or a useful constructor.");
+                }
+                if (!java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isPublic( defaultCtor.getModifiers() ))
+                {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.uno.DeploymentException("default constructor for class  " + impl_class + " is not public");
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        m_ctor = tmpCtor;
+    }
+
+
+    private Object instantiate( XComponentContext xContext )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            if (DEBUG)
+                System.out.print( "instantiating " + m_impl_class.toString() + " using " );
+            if (null != m_method)
+            {
+                if (DEBUG)
+                    System.out.println( "__create( XComponentContext )..." );
+                return m_method.invoke( null, new Object [] { xContext } );
+            }
+            if (null != m_ctor)
+            {
+                if (DEBUG)
+                    System.out.println( "ctor( XComponentContext )..." );
+                return m_ctor.newInstance( new Object [] { xContext } );
+            }
+            if (DEBUG)
+                System.out.println( "default ctor..." );
+            return m_impl_class.newInstance(); // default ctor
+        }
+        catch (java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException exc)
+        {
+            Throwable targetException = exc.getTargetException();
+            if (targetException instanceof java.lang.RuntimeException)
+                throw (java.lang.RuntimeException)targetException;
+            else if (targetException instanceof com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException)
+                throw (com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException)targetException;
+            else if (targetException instanceof com.sun.star.uno.Exception)
+                throw (com.sun.star.uno.Exception)targetException;
+            else
+                throw new com.sun.star.uno.Exception(targetException, targetException.getMessage(), this);
+        }
+        catch (IllegalAccessException exc)
+        {
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException( exc, exc.getMessage(), this);
+        }
+        catch (InstantiationException exc)
+        {
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException( exc, exc.getMessage(), this);
+        }
+    }
+    // XSingleComponentFactory impl
+
+    public final Object createInstanceWithContext(
+        XComponentContext xContext )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception
+    {
+        return instantiate( xContext );
+    }
+
+    public final Object createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext(
+        Object arguments [], XComponentContext xContext )
+        throws com.sun.star.uno.Exception
+    {
+        Object inst = instantiate( xContext );
+        XInitialization xInit = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XInitialization.class, inst );
+        if (null == xInit)
+        {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                "cannot pass arguments to component; no XInitialization implemented!", this,
+                (short)0 );
+        }
+        xInit.initialize( arguments );
+        return inst;
+    }
+
+    // XServiceInfo impl
+
+    public final String getImplementationName()
+    {
+        return m_impl_name;
+    }
+
+    public final boolean supportsService( String service_name )
+    {
+        for ( int nPos = 0; nPos < m_supported_services.length; ++nPos )
+        {
+            if (m_supported_services[ nPos ].equals( service_name ))
+                return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    public final String [] getSupportedServiceNames()
+    {
+        return m_supported_services;
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/InterfaceContainer.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/InterfaceContainer.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e858ced81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/InterfaceContainer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,864 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.ListIterator;
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+import com.sun.star.lang.EventObject;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XEventListener;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+
+/**
+ * This class is a container for interfaces.
+ *
+ * It is intended to be used as storage for UNO interface of a specific type.
+ * The client has to ensure that the container contains only elements of the same
+ * type. If one needs to store different types, then one uses OMultiTypeInterfaceContainer.
+ * When the client calls disposeAndClear, the contained objects are queried for
+ * com.sun.star.lang.XEventListener and disposing is called. Afterwards
+ * the list cannot be used anymore.
+ *
+ * This list does not allow null values.
+ * All methods are thread-safe. The same holds true for
+ * iterators, issued by this class. Several iterators can exist at the same time and can also
+ * be modified (java.util.ListIterator.add, java.util.ListIterator.remove etc.). To make this work,
+ * the InterfaceContainer provides the iterators with copies of the list's data.
+ * The add and remove calls on the iterator modify the data in the iterator's list as well as
+ * in InterfaceContainer. Modification on InterfaceContainer, however, are not
+ * synchronized with existing iterators. For example
+ * <pre>
+ * InterfaceContainer cont= new InterfaceContainer();
+ * ListIterator it= cont.listIterator();
+ *
+ * cont.add( someInterface);
+ * // one cannot obtain someInterface through iterator it,
+ * // instead get a new iterator
+ * it= cont.listIterator();
+ * // it now keeps a fresh copy of cont and hence contains someInterface
+ *
+ * // Adding an interface on the iterator will cause the interface also to be added
+ * // to InterfaceContainer
+ * it.add( someOtherInterface);
+ * // someOtherInterface is now in it and cont
+ * ListIterator it2= cont.listIterator();
+ * //someOtherInterface can also be obtained by all newly created iterators, e.g. it2.
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ *  The add and remove methods of an iterator work on a particular location within a list,
+ *  dependent on what the value of the iterator's cursor is. After the call the value at the
+ *  appropriate position has been modified. Since the iterator received a copy of InterfaceContainer's
+ *  data, InterfaceContainer may have been modified (by List methods or through other iterators).
+ *  Therefore both data sets may not contain the same elements anymore. Consequently, a List method
+ *  that modifies data, does not modify InterfaceContainer's data at a certain index
+ *  (according to the iterators cursor). Instead, new elements are added at the end of list. When
+ *  Iterator.remove is called, then the first occurrence of that element in InterfaceContainer
+ *  is removed.
+ *  ListIterator.set is not supported.
+ *
+ * A lot of  methods resemble those of the  to java.util.List interface, although
+ * this class does not implement it. However, the list iterators returned, for example by
+ * the listIterator method implement the java.util.ListIterator interface.
+ * Implementing the List interface would mean to support all none - optional methods as
+ * prescribed by the interface declaration. Among those is the subList method which returns
+ * a range of values of the list's data wrapped in a List implementation. Changes to the sub
+ * list have to cause changes in the main list. This is a problem, since this class is to be
+ * used in a multi-threaded environment. The sub list could work on a copy as the iterators
+ * do, but all the functions which work on a given index could not be properly supported.
+ * Unfortunately, the List interface documentation states that all optional methods implemented
+ * by the list have to be implemented in the sub list. That would mean to do without all those
+ * critical methods, although they might work well in the "main list" (as opposed to sub list).
+ */
+public class InterfaceContainer implements Cloneable
+{
+    static final boolean DEBUG= false;
+    /**
+     * The array buffer into which the elements of the ArrayList are stored.
+     * The capacity of the ArrayList is the length of this array buffer.
+     */
+    Object elementData[];
+
+    /**
+     * The size of the ArrayList (the number of elements it contains).
+     */
+    private int size;
+
+
+    /** Creates a new instance of InterfaceContainer */
+    public InterfaceContainer()
+    {
+        this(10);
+    }
+    /**
+     * Constructs an empty list with the specified initial capacity.
+     *
+     * @param   initialCapacity   the initial capacity of the list.
+     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the specified initial capacity
+     *            is negative
+     */
+    public InterfaceContainer(int initialCapacity)
+    {
+        if (initialCapacity < 0)
+            throw new java.lang.IllegalArgumentException("Illegal Capacity: "+
+            initialCapacity);
+        this.elementData = new Object[initialCapacity];
+    }
+
+    private InterfaceContainer(Object[] data) {
+        elementData = data;
+        size = elementData == null ? 0 : elementData.length;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Trims the capacity of this <code>ArrayList</code> instance to be the
+     * list's current size.  An application can use this operation to minimize
+     * the storage of an <code>ArrayList</code> instance.
+     */
+    synchronized public void trimToSize()
+    {
+        int oldCapacity = elementData.length;
+        if (size < oldCapacity)
+        {
+            Object oldData[] = elementData;
+            elementData = new Object[size];
+            System.arraycopy(oldData, 0, elementData, 0, size);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Increases the capacity of this <code>ArrayList</code> instance, if
+     * necessary, to ensure  that it can hold at least the number of elements
+     * specified by the minimum capacity argument.
+     *
+     * @param   minCapacity   the desired minimum capacity.
+     */
+    synchronized public void ensureCapacity(int minCapacity)
+    {
+        int oldCapacity = elementData.length;
+        if (minCapacity > oldCapacity)
+        {
+            Object oldData[] = elementData;
+            int newCapacity = (oldCapacity * 3)/2 + 1;
+            if (newCapacity < minCapacity)
+                newCapacity = minCapacity;
+            elementData = new Object[newCapacity];
+            System.arraycopy(oldData, 0, elementData, 0, size);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Appends the specified element to the end of this list.
+     *
+     * @param o element to be appended to this list.
+     * @return <code>true</code> (as per the general contract of Collection.add).
+     */
+    synchronized public boolean add(Object o)
+    {
+        boolean ret= false;
+        if (elementData != null && o != null)
+        {
+            ensureCapacity(size + 1);  // Increments modCount!!
+            elementData[size++] = o;
+            ret= true;
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Inserts the specified element at the specified position in this
+     * list. Shifts the element currently at that position (if any) and
+     * any subsequent elements to the right (adds one to their indices).
+     *
+     * @param index index at which the specified element is to be inserted.
+     * @param element element to be inserted.
+     * @throws    IndexOutOfBoundsException if index is out of range
+     *        <code>(index &lt; 0 || index &gt; size())</code>.
+     */
+    synchronized public void add(int index, Object element)
+    {
+        if (elementData != null && element != null)
+        {
+            if (index > size || index < 0)
+                throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException(
+                "Index: "+index+", Size: "+size);
+
+            ensureCapacity(size+1);
+            System.arraycopy(elementData, index, elementData, index + 1,
+            size - index);
+            elementData[index] = element;
+            size++;
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Appends all of the elements in the specified Collection to the end of
+     * this list, in the order that they are returned by the
+     * specified Collection's Iterator.  The behavior of this operation is
+     * undefined if the specified Collection is modified while the operation
+     * is in progress.  (This implies that the behavior of this call is
+     * undefined if the specified Collection is this list, and this
+     * list is nonempty.)
+     *
+     * @param c the elements to be inserted into this list.
+     * @throws    IndexOutOfBoundsException if index out of range <code>(index
+     *        &lt; 0 || index &gt; size())</code>.
+     * @return true if an element was inserted.
+     */
+    synchronized public boolean addAll(Collection c)
+    {
+        int numNew = c.size();
+        ensureCapacity(size + numNew);
+
+        Iterator e = c.iterator();
+        for (int i=0; i<numNew; i++)
+        {
+            Object o= e.next();
+            if (o != null)
+                elementData[size++] = o;
+        }
+        return numNew != 0;
+    }
+    /**
+     * Inserts all of the elements in the specified Collection into this
+     * list, starting at the specified position.  Shifts the element
+     * currently at that position (if any) and any subsequent elements to
+     * the right (increases their indices).  The new elements will appear
+     * in the list in the order that they are returned by the
+     * specified Collection's iterator.
+     *
+     * @param index index at which to insert first element
+     *          from the specified collection.
+     * @param c elements to be inserted into this list.
+     * @throws    IndexOutOfBoundsException if index out of range <code>(index
+     *        &lt; 0 || index &gt; size())</code>.
+     * @return true if an element was inserted.
+     */
+    synchronized public boolean addAll(int index, Collection c)
+    {
+        boolean ret= false;
+        if (elementData != null)
+        {
+            if (index > size || index < 0)
+                throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException(
+                "Index: "+index+", Size: "+size);
+            // only add  the non-null elements
+            int sizeCol= c.size();
+            Object[] arColl= new Object[sizeCol];
+            Iterator icol= c.iterator();
+            int curIndex= 0;
+            for (int i=0; i < sizeCol; i++)
+            {
+                Object o= icol.next();
+                if (o != null)
+                    arColl[curIndex++]= o;
+            }
+            int numNew = curIndex;
+            ensureCapacity(size + numNew);  // Increments modCount!!
+
+            int numMoved = size - index;
+            if (numMoved > 0)
+                System.arraycopy(elementData, index, elementData, index + numNew,
+                numMoved);
+
+            for (int i=0; i<numNew; i++)
+            {
+                elementData[index++]= arColl[i];
+            }
+            size += numNew;
+            ret= numNew != 0;
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Removes all of the elements from this list.  The list will
+     * be empty after this call returns.
+     */
+    synchronized public void clear()
+    {
+        if (elementData != null)
+        {
+            // Let gc do its work
+            for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
+                elementData[i] = null;
+
+            size = 0;
+        }
+    }
+    /**
+     * Returns <code>true</code> if this list contains the specified element.
+     *
+     * @param elem element whose presence in this List is to be tested.
+     * @return <code>true</code> if this list contains the specified element.
+     */
+    synchronized public boolean contains(Object elem)
+    {
+        return indexOf(elem) >= 0;
+    }
+
+    synchronized public boolean containsAll(Collection collection)
+    {
+        boolean retVal= true;
+        if (elementData != null && collection != null)
+        {
+            Iterator it= collection.iterator();
+            while (it.hasNext())
+            {
+                Object obj= it.next();
+                if (!contains(obj))
+                {
+                    retVal= false;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return retVal;
+    }
+    /**
+     * Returns the element at the specified position in this list.
+     *
+     * @param  index index of element to return.
+     * @return the element at the specified position in this list.
+     * @throws    IndexOutOfBoundsException if index is out of range <code>(index
+     *        &lt; 0 || index &gt;= size())</code>.
+     */
+    synchronized public Object get(int index)
+    {
+        if (elementData != null)
+        {
+            RangeCheck(index);
+            return elementData[index];
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Searches for the first occurrence of the given argument, testing
+     * for equality using the <code>equals</code> method.
+     *
+     * @param   elem   an object.
+     * @return  the index of the first occurrence of the argument in this
+     *          list; returns <code>-1</code> if the object is not found.
+     * @see     Object#equals(Object)
+     */
+    synchronized public int indexOf(Object elem)
+    {
+        if (elementData == null || elem == null) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+
+        int index= -1;
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
+        {
+            if (elem == elementData[i])
+            {
+                index= i;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (index == -1)
+        {
+            for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
+            {
+                if (UnoRuntime.areSame(elem, elementData[i]))
+                {
+                    index= i;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return index;
+    }
+    /**
+     * Tests if this list has no elements.
+     *
+     * @return  <code>true</code> if this list has no elements;
+     *          <code>false</code> otherwise.
+     */
+    synchronized public boolean isEmpty()
+    {
+        return size == 0;
+    }
+
+    synchronized public Iterator iterator()
+    {
+        if (elementData != null)
+        {
+            InterfaceContainer aCopy= (InterfaceContainer) clone();
+            return new Itr(aCopy);
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+    /**
+     * Returns the index of the last occurrence of the specified object in
+     * this list.
+     *
+     * @param   elem   the desired element.
+     * @return  the index of the last occurrence of the specified object in
+     *          this list; returns -1 if the object is not found.
+     */
+    synchronized public int lastIndexOf(Object elem)
+    {
+        if (elementData == null || elem == null) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+
+        int index= -1;
+
+        for (int i = size-1; i >= 0; i--)
+        {
+            if (elem == elementData[i])
+            {
+                index= i;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        if (index == -1)
+        {
+            for (int i = size-1; i >= 0; i--)
+            {
+                if (UnoRuntime.areSame(elem, elementData[i]))
+                {
+                    index= i;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return index;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a shallow copy of this <code>ArrayList</code> instance. The contained
+     * references are copied but the objects not.
+     *
+     * @return  a clone of this <code>List</code> instance.
+     */
+    @Override
+    synchronized public Object clone()
+    {
+        Object[] data;
+        if (elementData == null) {
+            data = null;
+        } else {
+            data = new Object[size];
+            System.arraycopy(elementData, 0, data, 0, size);
+        }
+        return new InterfaceContainer(data);
+    }
+    synchronized public ListIterator listIterator()
+    {
+        return listIterator(0);
+    }
+
+    /** The iterator keeps a copy of the list. Changes to InterfaceContainer do not
+     *  affect the data of the iterator. Conversely, changes to the iterator are effect
+     *  InterfaceContainer.
+     *  @param index the starting offset into the list.
+     *  @return a new iterator.
+     */
+    synchronized public ListIterator listIterator(int index)
+    {
+        if (elementData != null)
+        {
+            InterfaceContainer aCopy= (InterfaceContainer) clone();
+            return new LstItr(aCopy, index);
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+    /**
+     * Removes the element at the specified position in this list.
+     * Shifts any subsequent elements to the left (subtracts one from their
+     * indices).
+     *
+     * @param index the index of the element to removed.
+     * @return the element that was removed from the list.
+     * @throws    IndexOutOfBoundsException if index out of range <code>(index
+     *        &lt; 0 || index &gt;= size())</code>.
+     */
+    synchronized public Object remove(int index)
+    {
+        Object ret= null;
+        if (elementData != null)
+        {
+            RangeCheck(index);
+            ret= elementData[index];
+
+            int numMoved = size - index - 1;
+            if (numMoved > 0)
+                System.arraycopy(elementData, index+1, elementData, index,
+                numMoved);
+            elementData[--size] = null; // Let gc do its work
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+
+    /** Parameter obj may... or may not. What did the original author want
+     *  to tell us here?
+     *  @param obj the object to be removed.
+     *  @return true if obj was successfully removed from the list.
+     */
+    synchronized public boolean remove(Object obj)
+    {
+        boolean ret= false;
+        if (elementData != null && obj != null)
+        {
+            int index= indexOf(obj);
+            if (index != -1)
+            {
+                ret= true;
+                remove(index);
+            }
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    synchronized public boolean removeAll(Collection collection)
+    {
+        boolean retVal= false;
+        if (elementData != null && collection != null)
+        {
+            Iterator it= collection.iterator();
+            while (it.hasNext())
+            {
+                Object obj= it.next();
+                boolean bMod= remove( obj);
+                if (bMod)
+                    retVal= true;
+            }
+        }
+        return retVal;
+    }
+
+    synchronized public boolean retainAll(Collection collection)
+    {
+        if (elementData == null || collection == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        boolean retVal= false;
+        // iterate over data
+        Object[] arRetained= new Object[size];
+        int indexRetained= 0;
+        for(int i= 0; i < size; i++)
+        {
+            Object curElem= elementData[i];
+            // try to find the element in collection
+            Iterator itColl= collection.iterator();
+            boolean bExists= false;
+            while (itColl.hasNext())
+            {
+                if (curElem == itColl.next())
+                {
+                    // current element is in collection
+                    bExists= true;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            if (!bExists)
+            {
+                itColl= collection.iterator();
+                while (itColl.hasNext())
+                {
+                    Object o= itColl.next();
+                    if (o != null && UnoRuntime.areSame(o, curElem))
+                    {
+                        bExists= true;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            if (bExists)
+                arRetained[indexRetained++]= curElem;
+        }
+        retVal= size != indexRetained;
+        if (indexRetained > 0)
+        {
+            elementData= arRetained;
+            size= indexRetained;
+        }
+        return retVal;
+    }
+
+
+    /** Not supported.
+     * @param index index of element to replace.
+     * @param element element to be stored at the specified position.
+     * @return the element previously at the specified position.
+     * @throws    IndexOutOfBoundsException if index out of range
+     *        <code>(index &lt; 0 || index &gt;= size())</code>.
+     */
+    synchronized public Object set(int index, Object element)
+    {
+          Object ret= null;
+          if (elementData != null && element != null)
+          {
+              RangeCheck(index);
+              ret = elementData[index];
+              elementData[index] = element;
+          }
+          return ret;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the number of elements in this list.
+     *
+     * @return  the number of elements in this list.
+     */
+    synchronized public int size()
+    {
+        if (elementData != null)
+            return size;
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an array containing all of the elements in this list
+     * in the correct order.
+     *
+     * @return an array containing all of the elements in this list
+     *         in the correct order.
+     */
+    synchronized public Object[] toArray()
+    {
+        if (elementData != null)
+        {
+            Object[] result = new Object[size];
+            System.arraycopy(elementData, 0, result, 0, size);
+            return result;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an array containing all of the elements in this list in the
+     * correct order.  The runtime type of the returned array is that of the
+     * specified array.  If the list fits in the specified array, it is
+     * returned therein.  Otherwise, a new array is allocated with the runtime
+     * type of the specified array and the size of this list.<p>
+     *
+     * If the list fits in the specified array with room to spare (i.e., the
+     * array has more elements than the list), the element in the array
+     * immediately following the end of the collection is set to
+     * <code>null</code>.  This is useful in determining the length of the list
+     * <i>only</i> if the caller knows that the list does not contain any
+     * <code>null</code> elements.
+     *
+     * @param a the array into which the elements of the list are to
+     *      be stored, if it is big enough; otherwise, a new array of the
+     *      same runtime type is allocated for this purpose.
+     * @return an array containing the elements of the list.
+     * @throws ArrayStoreException if the runtime type of a is not a supertype
+     *         of the runtime type of every element in this list.
+     */
+    synchronized public Object[] toArray(Object a[])
+    {
+        if (a.length < size)
+            a = (Object[])java.lang.reflect.Array.newInstance(
+            a.getClass().getComponentType(), size);
+        if (elementData != null)
+            System.arraycopy(elementData, 0, a, 0, size);
+
+        if (a.length > size)
+            a[size] = null;
+
+        return a;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Check if the given index is in range.  If not, throw an appropriate
+     * runtime exception.
+     */
+    private void RangeCheck(int index)
+    {
+        if (index >= size || index < 0)
+            throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException(
+            "Index: "+index+", Size: "+size);
+    }
+
+    public void disposeAndClear(EventObject evt)
+    {
+        Iterator aIt;
+        synchronized (this)
+        {
+            aIt= iterator();
+            // Release containers if new entries occur in disposing;
+            // set the member to null, the iterator delete the values
+            clear();
+            elementData= null;
+            size= 0;
+        }
+        if (aIt != null)
+        {
+            while( aIt.hasNext() )
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    Object o= aIt.next();
+                    XEventListener evtListener= UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XEventListener.class, o);
+                    if( evtListener != null )
+                        evtListener.disposing( evt );
+                }
+                catch ( RuntimeException e)
+                {
+                    // be robust, if e.g. a remote bridge has disposed already.
+                    // there is no way, to delegate the error to the caller :o(.
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    private class Itr implements Iterator
+    {
+        InterfaceContainer dataIt;
+        /**
+         * Index of element to be returned by subsequent call to next.
+         */
+        int cursor= 0;
+        /**
+         * Index of element returned by most recent call to next or
+         * previous.  Reset to -1 if this element is deleted by a call
+         * to remove.
+         */
+        int lastRet = -1;
+
+        /** The object that has been returned by most recent call to next
+         *  or previous. Reset to null if this element is deleted by a call
+         *  to remove.
+         */
+        Object lastRetObj= null;
+
+        Itr(InterfaceContainer _data)
+        {
+            dataIt= _data;
+        }
+
+        synchronized public boolean hasNext()
+        {
+            return cursor !=dataIt.size();
+        }
+
+        public synchronized Object next()
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                Object next = dataIt.get(cursor);
+                lastRet = cursor++;
+                lastRetObj= next;
+                return next;
+            }
+            catch(java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException e)
+            {
+                java.util.NoSuchElementException ex2 = new java.util.NoSuchElementException();
+                ex2.initCause(e);
+                throw ex2;
+            }
+        }
+
+        /** Removes the interface from the list, that has been last returned by a
+         *  call to next(). This is done according to the specification of the interface
+         *  method. The element is also removed from InterfaceContainer but independent
+         *  of the location. If the element is multiple times in InterfaceContainer then
+         *  it is up to the java.util.ArrayList implementation what element is removed.
+         */
+        public synchronized void remove()
+        {
+            if (lastRet == -1)
+                throw new IllegalStateException();
+            // Remove the entry from InterfaceContainer.
+            InterfaceContainer.this.remove(lastRetObj);
+            dataIt.remove(lastRet);
+
+            if (lastRet < cursor)
+                cursor--;
+            lastRet = -1;
+            lastRetObj= null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private class LstItr extends Itr implements ListIterator
+    {
+
+        LstItr(InterfaceContainer _data, int _index)
+        {
+            super(_data);
+            cursor= _index;
+        }
+
+        /** Inserts an element to the iterators list according to the specification
+         *  of this interface method. The element is also added to InterfaceContainer
+         *  but its location within the list cannot be guaranteed.
+         */
+        public synchronized void add(Object o)
+        {
+            InterfaceContainer.this.add(o);
+            dataIt.add(cursor++, o);
+            lastRet = -1;
+            lastRetObj= null;
+        }
+
+        synchronized public boolean hasPrevious()
+        {
+            return cursor != 0;
+        }
+
+        synchronized public int nextIndex()
+        {
+            return cursor;
+        }
+
+        public synchronized Object previous()
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                Object previous = dataIt.get(--cursor);
+                lastRet = cursor;
+                lastRetObj= previous;
+                return previous;
+            } catch(IndexOutOfBoundsException e)
+            {
+                java.util.NoSuchElementException ex2 = new java.util.NoSuchElementException();
+                ex2.initCause(e);
+                throw ex2;
+            }
+        }
+
+        synchronized public int previousIndex()
+        {
+            return cursor-1;
+        }
+
+        /** This is not possible since several iterators can modify InterfaceContainer
+         */
+        public synchronized void set(Object o)
+        {
+            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+        }
+
+
+    } // class LstItr
+}
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/MultiTypeInterfaceContainer.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/MultiTypeInterfaceContainer.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9b061f81c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/MultiTypeInterfaceContainer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.lang.EventObject;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+public class MultiTypeInterfaceContainer
+{
+
+    private final Map<Object,InterfaceContainer> map= new HashMap<Object,InterfaceContainer>();
+
+    /** only returns types which have at least one value in InterfaceContainer
+     *  return value can contain an element null, if someone called
+     *  addInterface (null, interf)
+     *  @return an array of types in this container.
+     */
+    synchronized public Type[] getContainedTypes()
+    {
+        int size;
+        Type[] retVal= null;
+
+        if ( (size=map.size()) > 0)
+        {
+            Type [] arTypes= new Type[size];
+
+            int countTypes= 0;
+            for (Map.Entry<Object,InterfaceContainer> entry : map.entrySet())
+            {
+                InterfaceContainer cont= entry.getValue();
+                if (cont != null && cont.size() > 0)
+                {
+                    Object key = entry.getKey();
+                    if (key == null)
+                        arTypes[countTypes++]= new Type();
+                    else if (key instanceof Type)
+                        arTypes[countTypes++]= (Type) key;
+                    else if (key instanceof Class)
+                        arTypes[countTypes++]= new Type((Class) key);
+                    else
+                        arTypes[countTypes++]= new Type(key.getClass());
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (countTypes != size)
+            {
+                retVal= new Type[countTypes];
+                System.arraycopy(arTypes, 0, retVal, 0, countTypes);
+            }
+            else
+                retVal= arTypes;
+        }
+        if (retVal == null)
+            retVal= new Type[0];
+        return retVal;
+    }
+
+    /** param key can be null
+     *  @param key the object for which the container should be retrieved.
+     *  @return the container that contains the object key, if any.
+     */
+    synchronized public InterfaceContainer getContainer(Object key)
+    {
+        InterfaceContainer retVal= null;
+        for (Map.Entry<Object,InterfaceContainer> entry : map.entrySet())
+        {
+            Object obj= entry.getKey();
+            if (obj == null && key == null)
+            {
+                retVal= map.get(null);
+                break;
+            }
+            else if( obj != null && obj.equals(key))
+            {
+                retVal= entry.getValue();
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        return retVal;
+    }
+
+
+    synchronized public int addInterface(Object ckey, Object iface)
+    {
+        //If the key is a Type then it does not matter if the objects are different
+        // if they represent the same type. This is because Types overrides hashCode and
+        // equals. For example:
+        // Type a= new Type(XInterface.class);
+        // Type b= new Type(XInterface.class);
+        // Although a != b , the map interprets both as being the same.
+        InterfaceContainer cont= map.get(ckey);
+        if (cont != null)
+        {
+            cont.add(iface);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            cont= new InterfaceContainer();
+            cont.add(iface);
+            map.put(ckey, cont);
+        }
+        return cont.size();
+    }
+
+
+    synchronized public int removeInterface(Object key, Object iface)
+    {
+        int retVal= 0;
+        InterfaceContainer cont= map.get(key);
+        if (cont != null)
+        {
+            cont.remove(iface);
+            retVal= cont.size();
+        }
+        return retVal;
+    }
+
+    public void disposeAndClear(EventObject evt)
+    {
+        Iterator<InterfaceContainer> it= null;
+        synchronized(this)
+        {
+            it= map.values().iterator();
+        }
+        while (it.hasNext() ) {
+            it.next().disposeAndClear(evt);
+        }
+    }
+
+    synchronized public void clear()
+    {
+        Iterator<InterfaceContainer> it= map.values().iterator();
+        while (it.hasNext()) {
+            it.next().clear();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/PropertySet.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/PropertySet.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..67a4f0c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/PropertySet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,1103 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.lang.EventObject;
+import com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetException;
+import com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass;
+import com.sun.star.uno.AnyConverter;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XInterface;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Any;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyChangeListener;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XVetoableChangeListener;
+import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet;
+import com.sun.star.beans.Property;
+import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyAttribute;
+import com.sun.star.beans.UnknownPropertyException;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XPropertiesChangeListener;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySetInfo;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet;
+import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyVetoException;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XMultiPropertySet;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import com.sun.star.lang.DisposedException;
+
+
+/** This class is an implementation of the interfaces com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet,
+ *  com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet and com.sun.star.beans.XMultiPropertySet. This
+ *  class has to be inherited to be used. The values of properties are stored in member
+ *  variables of the inheriting class. By overriding the methods
+ *  {@link #convertPropertyValue convertPropertyValue},
+ *  {@link #setPropertyValueNoBroadcast setPropertyValueNoBroadcast} and
+ *  {@link #getPropertyValue(Property)} one can determine how
+ *  property values are stored.
+ *  When using the supplied implementations of this class then the member variables which
+ *  hold property values have to be declared in the class which inherits last in the inheriting
+ *  chain and they have to be public<p>
+ *  Properties have to be registered by one of the registerProperty methods. They take among other
+ *  arguments an Object named <em>id</em> which has to be a String that represents the name of
+ *  the member variable. The registering has to occur in the constructor of the inheriting class.
+ *  It is no allowed to add or change properties later on.<p>
+ *  Example:
+ *  <pre>
+ *  public class Foo extends PropertySet
+ *  {
+ *      protected int intProp;
+ *
+ *      public Foo()
+ *      {
+ *          registerProperty("PropertyA", 0, new Type(int.class), (short)0, "intProp");
+ *      }
+ *  }
+ *
+ *  </pre>
+ */
+public class PropertySet extends ComponentBase implements XPropertySet, XFastPropertySet,
+XMultiPropertySet
+{
+    private HashMap<String,Property> _nameToPropertyMap;
+    private HashMap<Integer,Property> _handleToPropertyMap;
+    private HashMap<Property,Object> _propertyToIdMap;
+    private Property[] arProperties;
+
+    private int lastHandle= 1;
+
+    protected XPropertySetInfo propertySetInfo;
+    protected MultiTypeInterfaceContainer aBoundLC= new MultiTypeInterfaceContainer();
+    protected MultiTypeInterfaceContainer aVetoableLC= new MultiTypeInterfaceContainer();
+    public PropertySet()
+    {
+        super();
+        initMappings();
+    }
+
+    /** Registers a property with this helper class and associates the argument <em>id</em> with it.
+     *  <em>id</em> is used to identify the storage of the property value. How property values are stored
+     *  and retrieved is determined by the methods {@link #convertPropertyValue convertPropertyValue},
+     *  {@link #setPropertyValueNoBroadcast setPropertyValueNoBroadcast} and {@link #getPropertyValue(Property) getPropertyValue}
+     *  These methods expect <em>id</em> to be a String which represents the name of a member variable
+     *  which holds the property value.
+     *  Only properties which are registered can be accessed. Registration has to occur during
+     *  initialization of the inheriting class (i.e. within the constructor).
+     *  @param prop The property to be registered.
+     *  @param id Identifies the properties storage.
+     *  @see #getPropertyId
+     */
+    protected void registerProperty(Property prop, Object id)
+    {
+        putProperty(prop);
+        assignPropertyId(prop, id);
+    }
+
+    /** Registers a property with this helper class and associates the argument id with it.
+     *  It does the same as {@link #registerProperty(Property, Object)}. The first four
+     *  arguments are used to construct a Property object.
+     *  Registration has to occur during
+     *  initialization of the inheriting class (i.e. within the constructor)
+     *  @param name The property's name (Property.Name).
+     *  @param handle The property's handle (Property.Handle).
+     *  @param type The property's type (Property.Type).
+     *  @param attributes The property's attributes (Property.Attributes).
+     *  @param id Identifies the property's storage.
+     */
+    protected void registerProperty(String name, int handle, Type type, short attributes, Object id)
+    {
+        Property p= new Property(name, handle, type, attributes);
+        registerProperty(p, id);
+    }
+
+    /** Registers a property with this  class and associates the argument id with it.
+     *  It does the same as {@link #registerProperty(Property, Object)}. The first three
+     *  arguments are used to construct a Property object. The value for the Property.Handle
+     *  is generated and does not have to be specified here. Use this method for registering
+     *  a property if you do not care about the Property's handles.
+     *  Registration has to occur during
+     *  initialization of the inheriting class (i.e. within the constructor).
+     *  @param name The property's name (Property.Name).
+     *  @param type The property's type (Property.Type).
+     *  @param attributes The property's attributes (Property.Attributes).
+     *  @param id Identifies the property's storage.
+     */
+    protected void registerProperty(String name, Type type, short attributes, Object id)
+    {
+        Property p= new Property(name, lastHandle++, type, attributes);
+        registerProperty(p, id);
+    }
+
+    /** Registers a property with this class. This method expects that property values
+     *  are stored in member variables as is the case if the methods convertPropertyValue,
+     *  setPropertyValueNoBroadcast and getPropertyValue(Property) are not overridden.
+     *  It is presumed that the type of the member variable
+     *  corresponds Property.Type. For example, if the TypeClass of Property.Type is to be
+     *  a TypeClass.SHORT then the member must be a short or java.lang.Short.
+     *  The handle for the property is generated.<br>
+     *  If there is no member with the specified name or if the member has an incompatible type
+     *  then a com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException is thrown.
+     *  @param propertyName The name of the property.
+     *  @param memberName The name of the member variable that holds the value of the property.
+     *  @param attributes The property attributes.
+     */
+    protected void registerProperty(String propertyName, String memberName, short attributes)
+    {
+        Field propField= null;
+        try
+        {
+            propField= getClass().getDeclaredField(memberName);
+        }
+        catch (NoSuchFieldException e)
+        {
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(e, "there is no member variable: " + memberName);
+        }
+        Class cl= propField.getType();
+        Type t= new Type(cl);
+        if (t.getTypeClass() != TypeClass.UNKNOWN)
+        {
+            Property p= new Property(propertyName, lastHandle++,  t, attributes);
+            registerProperty(p,memberName);
+        }
+        else
+            throw new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException("the member has an unknown type: " + memberName);
+    }
+
+    /** Registers a property with this class.
+     *  It is presumed that the name of property is equal to the name of the member variable
+     *  that holds the property value.
+     *  @param propertyName The name of the property and the member variable that holds the property's value.
+     *  @param attributes The property attributes.
+     *  @see #registerProperty(String, String, short)
+     */
+    protected void registerProperty(String propertyName, short attributes)
+    {
+        registerProperty(propertyName, propertyName, attributes);
+    }
+
+
+
+    /** Returns the Property object for a given property name or null if that property does
+     *  not exists (i.e. it has not been registered). Override this method
+     *  if you want to implement your own mapping from property names to Property objects.
+     *  Then you also have to override {@link #initMappings}, {@link #getProperties()} and
+     *  {@link #putProperty(Property)}.
+     *  @param propertyName The name of the property (Property.Name)
+     *  @return The Property object with the name <em>propertyName</em>.
+     */
+    protected Property getProperty(String propertyName)
+    {
+        return _nameToPropertyMap.get(propertyName);
+    }
+
+    /** Returns the Property object with a handle (Property.Handle) as specified by the argument
+     *  <em>nHandle</em>. The method returns null if there is no such property (i.e. it has not
+     *  been registered). Override this method if you want to implement your own mapping from handles
+     *  to Property objects. Then you also have to override {@link #initMappings}, {@link #putProperty(Property)}.
+     *  @param nHandle The handle of the property (Property.Handle).
+     *  @return The Property object with the handle <em>nHandle</em>
+     */
+    protected Property getPropertyByHandle(int nHandle)
+    {
+        return _handleToPropertyMap.get(Integer.valueOf(nHandle));
+    }
+
+    /** Returns an array of all Property objects or an array of length null if there
+     *  are no properties. Override this method if you want to implement your own mapping from names
+     *  to Property objects. Then you also have to override {@link #initMappings}, {@link #getProperty(String)} and
+     *  {@link #putProperty}.
+     *  @return Array of all Property objects.
+     */
+    protected Property[] getProperties()
+    {
+        if (arProperties == null)
+        {
+            Collection<Property> values= _nameToPropertyMap.values();
+            arProperties= values.toArray(new Property[_nameToPropertyMap.size()]);
+        }
+        return arProperties;
+    }
+
+    /** Stores a Property object so that it can be retrieved subsequently by
+     *  {@link #getProperty(String)},{@link #getProperties()},{@link #getPropertyByHandle(int)}.
+     *  Override this method if you want to implement your own mapping from handles
+     *  to Property objects and names to Property objects. Then you also need to override {@link #initMappings},
+     *  {@link #getProperty(String)},{@link #getProperties()},{@link #getPropertyByHandle(int)}.
+     *  @param prop The Property object that is to be stored.
+     */
+    protected void putProperty(Property prop)
+    {
+        _nameToPropertyMap.put(prop.Name, prop);
+        if (prop.Handle != -1)
+            _handleToPropertyMap.put(Integer.valueOf(prop.Handle), prop);
+    }
+
+    /** Assigns an identifier object to a Property object so that the identifier
+     *  can be obtained by {@link #getPropertyId getPropertyId} later on. The identifier
+     *  is used to specify a certain storage for the property's value. If you do not
+     *  override {@link #setPropertyValueNoBroadcast setPropertyValueNoBroadcast} or {@link #getPropertyValue(Property)}
+     *  then the argument <em>id</em> has to be a String that equals the name of
+     *  the member variable that holds the Property's value.
+     *  Override this method if you want to implement your own mapping from Property objects  to ids or
+     *  if you need ids of a type other than String.
+     *  Then you also need to override {@link #initMappings initMappings} and {@link #getPropertyId getPropertyId}.
+     *  @param prop The Property object that is being assigned an id.
+     *  @param id The object which identifies the storage used for the property's value.
+     *  @see #registerProperty(Property, Object)
+     */
+    protected void assignPropertyId(Property prop, Object id)
+    {
+       if (id instanceof String && ((String) id).length() != 0)
+            _propertyToIdMap.put(prop, id);
+    }
+
+    /** Returns the identifier object for a certain Property. The object must have been
+     *  previously assigned to the Property object by {@link #assignPropertyId assignPropertyId}.
+     *  Override this method if you want to implement your own mapping from Property objects to ids.
+     *  Then you also need to override {@link #initMappings initMappings} and {@link #assignPropertyId assignPropertyId}.
+     *  @param prop The property for which the id is to be retrieved.
+     *  @return The id object that identifies the storage used for the property's value.
+     *  @see #registerProperty(Property, Object)
+     */
+    protected Object getPropertyId(Property prop)
+    {
+        return _propertyToIdMap.get(prop);
+    }
+
+    /** Initializes data structures used for mappings of property names to property object,
+     *  property handles to property objects and property objects to id objects.
+     *  Override this method if you want to implement your own mappings. Then you also need to
+     *  override {@link #putProperty putProperty},{@link #getProperty getProperty}, {@link #getPropertyByHandle},
+     *  {@link #assignPropertyId assignPropertyId} and {@link #getPropertyId getPropertyId}.
+     */
+    protected void initMappings()
+    {
+       _nameToPropertyMap= new HashMap<String,Property>();
+       _handleToPropertyMap= new HashMap<Integer,Property>();
+       _propertyToIdMap= new HashMap<Property,Object>();
+    }
+
+    /** Makes sure that listeners which are kept in aBoundLC (XPropertyChangeListener) and aVetoableLC
+     *  (XVetoableChangeListener) receive a disposing call. Also those listeners are released.
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected void postDisposing()
+    {
+        // Create an event with this as sender
+        EventObject aEvt= new EventObject(this);
+
+        // inform all listeners to release this object
+        aBoundLC.disposeAndClear(aEvt);
+        aVetoableLC.disposeAndClear(aEvt);
+    }
+
+    //XPropertySet ----------------------------------------------------
+    synchronized public void addPropertyChangeListener(String str, XPropertyChangeListener xPropertyChangeListener)
+    throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+          // only add listeners if you are not disposed
+        if (! bInDispose && ! bDisposed)
+        {
+            if (str.length() > 0)
+            {
+                Property prop= getProperty(str);
+                if (prop == null)
+                    throw new UnknownPropertyException("Property " + str + " is unknown");
+
+                // Add listener for a certain property
+                if ((prop.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.BOUND) > 0)
+                    aBoundLC.addInterface(str, xPropertyChangeListener);
+                else
+                    //ignore silently
+                    return;
+            }
+            else
+                // Add listener for all properties
+                listenerContainer.addInterface(XPropertyChangeListener.class, xPropertyChangeListener);
+        }
+    }
+    //XPropertySet ----------------------------------------------------
+    synchronized public void addVetoableChangeListener(String str, com.sun.star.beans.XVetoableChangeListener xVetoableChangeListener) throws com.sun.star.beans.UnknownPropertyException, com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetException
+    {
+         // only add listeners if you are not disposed
+        if (! bInDispose && ! bDisposed)
+        {
+            if (str.length() > 0)
+            {
+                Property prop= getProperty(str);
+                if (prop == null)
+                    throw new UnknownPropertyException("Property " + str + " is unknown");
+
+                // Add listener for a certain property
+                if ((prop.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.CONSTRAINED) > 0)
+                    aVetoableLC.addInterface(str, xVetoableChangeListener);
+                else
+                    //ignore silently
+                    return;
+            }
+            else
+                // Add listener for all properties
+                listenerContainer.addInterface(XVetoableChangeListener.class, xVetoableChangeListener);
+        }
+    }
+    //XPropertySet ----------------------------------------------------
+    public synchronized com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySetInfo getPropertySetInfo()
+    {
+        if (propertySetInfo == null)
+            propertySetInfo= new PropertySetInfo();
+        return propertySetInfo;
+    }
+    //XPropertySet ----------------------------------------------------
+    public Object getPropertyValue(String name) throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        Object ret= null;
+        if (bInDispose || bDisposed)
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.DisposedException("The component has been disposed already");
+
+        Property prop= getProperty(name);
+        if (prop == null)
+            throw new UnknownPropertyException("The property " + name + " is unknown");
+
+        synchronized (this)
+        {
+            ret= getPropertyValue(prop);
+        }
+        // null must not be returned. Either a void any is returned or an any containing
+        // an interface type and a null reference.
+        if (ret == null)
+        {
+            if (prop.Type.getTypeClass() == TypeClass.INTERFACE)
+                ret= new Any(prop.Type, null);
+            else
+                ret= new Any(new Type(void.class), null);
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    //XPropertySet ----------------------------------------------------
+    synchronized public void removePropertyChangeListener(String propName, XPropertyChangeListener listener) throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {   // all listeners are automatically released in a dispose call
+        if (!bInDispose && !bDisposed)
+        {
+            if (propName.length() > 0)
+            {
+                Property prop = getProperty(propName);
+                if (prop == null)
+                    throw new UnknownPropertyException("Property " + propName + " is unknown");
+                aBoundLC.removeInterface(propName, listener);
+            }
+            else
+                listenerContainer.removeInterface(XPropertyChangeListener.class, listener);
+        }
+    }
+
+    //XPropertySet ----------------------------------------------------
+    synchronized public void removeVetoableChangeListener(String propName, XVetoableChangeListener listener) throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {// all listeners are automatically released in a dispose call
+        if (!bInDispose && !bDisposed)
+        {
+            if (propName.length() > 0)
+            {
+                Property prop = getProperty(propName);
+                if (prop == null)
+                    throw new UnknownPropertyException("Property " + propName + " is unknown");
+                aVetoableLC.removeInterface(propName, listener);
+            }
+            else
+                listenerContainer.removeInterface(XVetoableChangeListener.class, listener);
+        }
+    }
+
+    //XPropertySet ----------------------------------------------------
+    /** Sets the value of a property.
+     *  The idl description for this interfaces, stipulates that the argument value is an Any. Since a java.lang.Object
+     *  reference has the same meaning as an Any this function accepts
+     *  java anys (com.sun.star.uno.Any) and all other appropriate objects as arguments. The value argument can be one
+     *  of these:
+     *  <ul>
+     *  <li>java.lang.Boolean</li>
+     *  <li>java.lang.Character</li>
+     *  <li>java.lang.Byte</li>
+     *  <li>java.lang.Short</li>
+     *  <li>java.lang.Integer</li>
+     *  <li>java.lang.Long</li>
+     *  <li>java.lang.Float</li>
+     *  <li>java.lang.Double</li>
+     *  <li>String</li>
+     *  <li>com.sun.star.uno.Type</li>
+     *  <li><em>objects which implement UNO interfaces</em></li>
+     *  <li><em>arrays which contain elements of the types above</em></li>
+     *  <li>com.sun.star.uno.Any containing an instance of one of the above types</li>
+     *  </ul>
+     *
+     *  Properties can have the attribute com.sun.star.beans.PropertyAttribute.MAYBEVOID, which means that the value
+     *  (not the type) can be void. In order to assign a void value to a property one can either pass an Any which
+     *  contains a null reference or pass null directly. In both cases the null reference is only accepted if
+     *  the PropertyAttribute.MAYBEVOID attribute is set for the property.
+     *
+     *  Properties which have the attribute MAYBEVOID set (Property.Attributes) can have a void value. The following
+     *  considerations presume that the Property has that attribute set. Further, when mentioning an Any's value we
+     *  actually refer to the object returned by Any.getObject.
+     *  If the argument <em>value</em> is null, or it is an Any whose value is null (but with a valid Type)
+     *  then the member variable used for storing the property's value is set to null.
+     *  Therefore those properties can only be stored in objects
+     *  and primitive types are not allowed (one can use the wrapper classes instead,e.g. java.lang.Byte) .
+     *  If a property's value is kept in a member variable of type Any and that reference is still null
+     *  then when setPropertyValue is called with
+     *  <em>value</em> = null then the member variable is assigned an Any with type void and a null value.
+     *  Or if the argument is an Any with a null value then it is assigned to the member variable.
+     *  Further, if the variable already
+     *  references an Any and setPropertyValue is called with <em>value</em> = null, then the variable is assigned
+     *  a new Any with the same type as the previously referenced Any and with a null value.
+     *  @param name The name of the property.
+     *  @param value The new value of the property.
+     *     *     */
+    public void setPropertyValue(String name, Object value) throws UnknownPropertyException,
+    PropertyVetoException, com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException,  WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        Property prop= getProperty(name);
+        if (prop == null)
+            throw new UnknownPropertyException("Property " + name + " is unknown");
+        setPropertyValue(prop, value);
+    }
+
+    /** Sets the value of a property. It checks if the property's attributes (READONLY,MAYBEVOID), allow that the
+     *  new value can be set. It also causes the notification of listeners.
+     *  @param prop The property whose value is to be set.
+     *  @param value The new value for the property.
+     *
+     *  @throws UnknownPropertyException
+     *      See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+     *  @throws PropertyVetoException
+     *      See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+     *  @throws WrappedTargetException
+     *      See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+     */
+    protected void setPropertyValue(Property prop, Object value) throws UnknownPropertyException,
+    PropertyVetoException, com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        if ((prop.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.READONLY) == PropertyAttribute.READONLY)
+            throw new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyVetoException();
+        // The value may be null only if MAYBEVOID attribute is set
+        boolean bVoidValue;
+        if (value instanceof Any)
+            bVoidValue= ((Any) value).getObject() == null;
+        else
+            bVoidValue= value == null;
+        if (bVoidValue && (prop.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEVOID) == 0)
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException("The property must have a value; the MAYBEVOID attribute is not set!");
+        if (bInDispose || bDisposed)
+            throw new DisposedException("Component is already disposed");
+
+        //Check if the argument is allowed
+        boolean bValueOk;
+        if (value instanceof Any)
+            bValueOk= checkType(((Any) value).getObject());
+        else
+            bValueOk= checkType(value);
+        if (! bValueOk)
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException("No valid UNO type");
+
+
+        boolean bConversionOk= false;
+        Object[] outConvertedVal= new Object[1];
+        Object[] outOldValue= new Object[1];
+        synchronized (this)
+        {
+            bConversionOk= convertPropertyValue(prop, outConvertedVal, outOldValue, value);
+        }
+
+        //The next step following the conversion is to set the new value of the property. Prior to this
+        // the XVetoableChangeListener s have to be notified.
+        if (bConversionOk)
+        {
+            // If the property is CONSTRAINED, then we must notify XVetoableChangeListener. The listener can throw a com.sun.star.lang.beans.PropertyVetoException which
+            // will cause this method to return (the exception is not caught here).
+            fire( new Property[]{prop}, outConvertedVal, outOldValue, true);
+
+            synchronized (this)
+            {
+                setPropertyValueNoBroadcast(prop, outConvertedVal[0]);
+            }
+            // fire a change event (XPropertyChangeListener, PropertyAttribute.BOUND
+            fire( new Property[]{prop}, outConvertedVal, outOldValue, false);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Converts a value in a way so that it is appropriate for storing as a property value, that is
+     *  {@link #setPropertyValueNoBroadcast setPropertyValueNoBroadcast} can process the value without any further
+     *  conversion. This implementation presumes that
+     *  the values are stored in member variables of the furthest inheriting class. For example,
+     *  class A inherits this class then members of class A
+     *  can hold property values. If there is a class B which inherits A then only members of B can hold
+     *  property values. The variables must be public. A property must have been registered (e.g. by
+     *  {@link #registerProperty(Property, Object)} in order for this method to work. The identifier argument (type Object)
+     *  used in the registerProperty methods must
+     *  be a String, which is, the name of the member variable that holds the property value.
+     *  If one opts to store values differently then one may override
+     *  this method, as well as {@link #setPropertyValueNoBroadcast setPropertyValueNoBroadcast} and
+     *  {@link #getPropertyValue(Property) getPropertyValue(Property)}.
+     *  This method is always called as a result of a call to one of the setter methods, such as
+     *  {@link #setPropertyValue(String,Object) XPropertySet.setPropertyValue},
+     *  {@link #setFastPropertyValue XFastPropertySet.setFastPropertyValue}
+     *  and {@link #setPropertyValues XMultiPropertySet.setPropertyValues}.
+     *  If this method fails, that is, it returns false or throws an exception, then no listeners are notified and the
+     *  property value, that was intended to be changed, remains untouched.
+     *
+     *  This method does not have to deal with property attributes, such as
+     *  PropertyAttribute.READONLY or PropertyAttribute.MAYBEVOID. The processing of these attributes occurs
+     *  in the calling methods.
+     *
+     *  Only if this method returns successfully further processing, such
+     *  as listener notification and finally the modification of the property's value, will occur.
+     *
+     *  The actual modification of a property's value is done by {@link #setPropertyValueNoBroadcast setPropertyValueNoBroadcast}
+     *  which is called subsequent to convertPropertyValue.
+     *<p>
+     *  This method converts values by help of the com.sun.star.uno.AnyConverter which only does a few widening
+     *  conversions on integer types and floating point types. For example, there is the property PropA with a Type equivalent
+     *  to int.class and the
+     *  value of the property is to be stored in a member variable of type int with name intProp. Then setPropertyValue is
+     *  called:
+     *  <pre>
+     *  set.setPropertyValue( "PropA", Byte.valueOf( (byte)111));
+     *  </pre>
+     *  At some point setPropertyValue will call convertPropertyValue and pass in the Byte object. Since we allow
+     *  that Byte values can be used with the property and know that the value is to be stored in intProp (type int)
+     *  we convert the Byte object into an Integer object which is then returned in the out-parameter <em>newVal</em>. This
+     *  conversion is actually performed by the AnyConverter. Later
+     *  the setPropertyValueNoBroadcast is called with that Integer object and the int value can be easily extracted
+     *  from the object and be assigned to the member intProp.
+     *  <p>
+     *  The method handles Any arguments the same as Object arguments. That is, the <em>setVal</em> argument can
+     *  be a java.lang.Boolean or a com.sun.star.uno.Any containing a java.lang.Boolean. Likewise, a member
+     *  containing a property value can be a com.sun.star.uno.Any or a java.lang.Object.
+     *  Then, no conversion is necessary, since they can hold all possible values. However, if
+     *  the member is an Object and <em>setVal</em> is an Any then the object contained in the any is assigned to
+     *  the member. The extra type information which exists as Type object in the Any will get lost. If this is not
+     *  intended then use an Any variable rather than an Object.
+     *
+     *  If a member is an Object or Any and the argument <em>setVal</em> is an Object, other than String or array,
+     *  then it is presumed to be a UNO object and queried for XInterface. If successful, the out-param <em>newVal</em>
+     *  returns the XInterface.
+     *
+     *  If a member is a UNO interface, then <em>setVal</em> is queried for this interface and the result is returned.
+     *  If <em>setVal</em> is null then <em>newVal</em> will be null too after return.
+     *  <p>
+     *  If a property value is stored using a primitive type the out-parameters
+     *  <em>curVal</em> and <em>newVal</em> contain the respective wrapper class (e.g.java.lang.Byte, etc.).
+     *  curVal is used in calls to the XVetoableChangeListener and XPropertyChangeListener.
+     *
+     * @param property - in-param property for which the data is to be converted.
+     * @param newVal - out-param which contains the converted value on return.
+     * @param curVal - out-param the current value of the property. It is used in calls to the
+     *                   XVetoableChangeListener and XPropertyChangeListener.
+     *  @param setVal - in-param. The value that is to be converted so that it matches Property and the internally used
+     *  dataformat for that property.
+     *  @return true - Conversion was successful. <em>newVal</em> contains a valid value for the property. false -
+     *  conversion failed for some reason.
+     *
+     *  @throws UnknownPropertyException
+     *      See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+     *  @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException The value provided is unfit for the property.
+     *  @throws com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetException - An exception occurred during the conversion, that is to be made known
+     *  to the caller.
+     */
+    protected boolean convertPropertyValue(Property property, Object[] newVal, Object[]curVal,  Object setVal)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, WrappedTargetException, UnknownPropertyException
+    {
+        boolean ret= true;
+        try
+        {
+            // get the member name
+            String sMember= (String) getPropertyId(property);
+            if (sMember != null)
+            {
+                // use reflection to obtain the field that holds the property value
+                // Class.getDeclaredFields does not return inherited fields. One could use Class.getFields to
+                // also get inherited fields, but only those which are public.
+                Field propField= getClass().getDeclaredField(sMember);
+                if (propField != null)
+                {
+                    curVal[0]= propField.get(this);
+                    Class memberClass= propField.getType();
+
+                    // MAYBEVOID: if setVal == null or it is an Any and getObject returns null, then a void value is to be set
+                    // This works only if there are no primitive types. For those we use the respective wrapper classes.
+                    // In this implementation, a null reference means void value.
+                    boolean bVoidValue= false;
+                    boolean bAnyVal= setVal instanceof Any;
+                    if (bAnyVal)
+                        bVoidValue= ((Any) setVal).getObject() == null;
+                    else
+                        bVoidValue= setVal == null;
+                    if (bVoidValue && memberClass.isPrimitive())
+                        throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException("The implementation does not support the MAYBEVOID attribute for this property");
+
+                    Object convObj= null;
+                    //The member that keeps the value of the Property is an Any. It can contain all possible
+                    //types, therefore a conversion is not necessary.
+                    if (memberClass.equals(Any.class))
+                    {
+                        if (bAnyVal)
+                            //parameter setVal is also an Any and can be used without further processing
+                            convObj= setVal;
+                        else
+                        {
+                            // Parameter setVal is not an Any. We need to construct an Any that contains
+                            // the argument setVal.
+                            // If setVal is an interface implementation then, we cannot construct the
+                            // Any with setVal.getClass(), because the Any.Type._typeClass would be TypeClass.UNKNOWN.
+                            // We try to get an XInterface of setVal and set an XInterface type.
+                            if (setVal instanceof XInterface)
+                            {
+                                XInterface xint= UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XInterface.class, setVal);
+                                if (xint != null)
+                                    convObj= new Any(new Type(XInterface.class), xint);
+                            }
+                            // The member is an any, and the past in argument was null reference (MAYBEVOID is set)
+                            else if (setVal == null)
+                            {
+                                // if the any member is still null we create a void any
+                                if (curVal[0] == null)
+                                    convObj= new Any(new Type(), null);
+                                else
+                                {
+                                    //otherwise we create an Any with the same type as a value of null;
+                                    convObj= new Any( ((Any)curVal[0]).getType(), null);
+                                }
+                            }
+                            else
+                                convObj= new Any(new Type(setVal.getClass()), setVal);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    else
+                        convObj= convert(memberClass, setVal);
+                    newVal[0]= convObj;
+                }
+            }
+            else
+                throw new UnknownPropertyException("Property " + property.Name + " is unknown");
+        }
+        catch (java.lang.NoSuchFieldException e)
+        {
+            throw new WrappedTargetException(e, "Field does not exist", this, e);
+        }
+        catch (java.lang.IllegalAccessException e)
+        {
+            throw new WrappedTargetException(e, "", this ,e);
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    private boolean checkType(Object obj)
+    {
+        return obj == null
+                || obj instanceof Boolean
+                || obj instanceof Character
+                || obj instanceof Number
+                || obj instanceof String
+                || obj instanceof XInterface
+                || obj instanceof Type
+                || obj instanceof com.sun.star.uno.Enum
+                || obj.getClass().isArray();
+    }
+
+    // Param object can be an Any or other object. If obj is null then the return value is null
+    private Object convert( Class cl, Object obj) throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        Object retVal= null;
+       //The member that keeps the value of the Property is an Object.Objects are similar to Anys in that they can
+       // hold all types.
+        if (obj == null || (obj instanceof Any && ((Any) obj).getObject() == null))
+        {}
+        else if(cl.equals(Object.class))
+        {
+            if (obj instanceof Any)
+                obj= ((Any) obj).getObject();
+            retVal= obj;
+        }
+        else if(cl.equals(boolean.class))
+            retVal= Boolean.valueOf(AnyConverter.toBoolean(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(char.class))
+            retVal= new Character(AnyConverter.toChar(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(byte.class))
+            retVal= Byte.valueOf(AnyConverter.toByte(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(short.class))
+            retVal= Short.valueOf(AnyConverter.toShort(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(int.class))
+            retVal= Integer.valueOf(AnyConverter.toInt(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(long.class))
+            retVal= Long.valueOf(AnyConverter.toLong(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(float.class))
+            retVal= new Float(AnyConverter.toFloat(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(double.class))
+            retVal= new Double(AnyConverter.toDouble(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(String.class))
+            retVal= AnyConverter.toString(obj);
+        else if (cl.isArray())
+            retVal= AnyConverter.toArray(obj);
+        else if (cl.equals(Type.class))
+            retVal= AnyConverter.toType(obj);
+        else if (cl.equals(Boolean.class))
+            retVal= Boolean.valueOf(AnyConverter.toBoolean(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(Character.class))
+            retVal= new Character(AnyConverter.toChar(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(Byte.class))
+            retVal= Byte.valueOf(AnyConverter.toByte(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(Short.class))
+            retVal= Short.valueOf(AnyConverter.toShort(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(Integer.class))
+            retVal= Integer.valueOf(AnyConverter.toInt(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(Long.class))
+            retVal= Long.valueOf(AnyConverter.toLong(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(Float.class))
+            retVal= new Float(AnyConverter.toFloat(obj));
+        else if (cl.equals(Double.class))
+            retVal= new Double(AnyConverter.toDouble(obj));
+        else if (XInterface.class.isAssignableFrom(cl))
+            retVal= AnyConverter.toObject(new Type(cl), obj);
+        else if (com.sun.star.uno.Enum.class.isAssignableFrom(cl))
+            retVal= AnyConverter.toObject(new Type(cl), obj);
+        else
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException("Could not convert the argument");
+        return retVal;
+    }
+
+    /**  Sets the value of a property. In this implementation property values are stored in member variables
+     *  (see {@link #convertPropertyValue convertPropertyValue} Notification of property listeners
+     *  does not occur in this method. By overriding this method one can take full control about how property values
+     *  are stored. But then, the {@link #convertPropertyValue convertPropertyValue} and
+     *  {@link #getPropertyValue(Property)} must be overridden too.
+     *
+     *  A Property with the MAYBEVOID attribute set, is stored as null value. Therefore the member variable must be
+     *  an Object in order to make use of the property attribute. An exception is Any. The Any variable can be initially null, but
+     *  once it is set the reference will not become null again. If the value is to be set to
+     *  void then a new Any will be stored
+     *  with a valid type but without a value (i.e. Any.getObject returns null).
+     *  If a property has the READONLY attribute set, and one of the setter methods, such as setPropertyValue, has been
+     *  called, then this method is not going to be called.
+     *  @param property the property for which the new value is set
+     *  @param newVal the new value for the property.
+     *  @throws com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetException An exception, which has to be made known to the caller,
+     *  occurred during the setting of the value.
+     */
+    protected void setPropertyValueNoBroadcast(Property property, Object newVal)
+    throws WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            // get the member name
+            String sMember= (String) getPropertyId(property);
+            if (sMember != null)
+            {
+                // use reflection to obtain the field that holds the property value
+                // Class.getDeclaredFields does not return inherited fields. One could use Class.getFields to
+                // also get inherited fields, but only those which are public.
+                Field propField= getClass().getDeclaredField(sMember);
+                if (propField != null)
+                    propField.set(this, newVal);
+            }
+        }
+        catch(java.lang.Exception e)
+        {
+            throw new WrappedTargetException(e, "PropertySet.setPropertyValueNoBroadcast", this, e);
+        }
+    }
+    /** Retrieves the value of a property. This implementation presumes that the values are stored in member variables
+     *  of the furthest inheriting class (see {@link #convertPropertyValue convertPropertyValue}) and that the
+     *  variables are public. The property must have
+     *  been registered, for example by {@link #registerProperty(Property, Object)}. The identifier Object argument
+     *  must have been a String which was the name of the member variable holding the property value.
+     *  When properties are to be stored differently one has to override this method as well as
+     *  {@link #convertPropertyValue} and {@link #setPropertyValueNoBroadcast}. <br>
+     *  If a value is stored in a variable of a primitive type then this method returns an instance of the respective
+     *  wrapper class (e.g. java.lang.Boolean).
+     *  @param property The property for which the value is to be retrieved.
+     *  @return The value of the property.
+     */
+    protected Object getPropertyValue(Property property)
+    {
+        Object ret= null;
+        try
+        {
+            // get the member name
+            String sMember= (String) getPropertyId(property);
+            if (sMember != null)
+            {
+                // use reflection to obtain the field that holds the property value
+                // Class.getDeclaredFields does not return inherited fields. One could use Class.getFields to
+                // also get inherited fields, but only those which are public.
+                Field propField= getClass().getDeclaredField(sMember);
+                if (propField != null)
+                    ret= propField.get(this);
+            }
+        }
+        catch(java.lang.NoSuchFieldException e)
+        {
+            throw new java.lang.RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        catch(java.lang.IllegalAccessException e)
+        {
+            throw new java.lang.RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *  This method fires events to XPropertyChangeListener,XVetoableChangeListener and
+     *  XPropertiesChangeListener event sinks.
+     *  To distinguish what listeners are to be called the argument <em>bVetoable</em> is to be set to true if
+     *  a XVetoableChangeListener is meant. For XPropertyChangeListener and XPropertiesChangeListener
+     *  it is to be set to false.
+     *
+     * @param properties    Properties which will be or have been affected.
+     * @param newValues the new values of the properties.
+     * @param oldValues the old values of the properties.
+     * @param bVetoable true means fire to VetoableChangeListener, false means fire to
+     * XPropertyChangedListener and XMultiPropertyChangedListener.
+     *
+     * @throws PropertyVetoException
+     *      if a vetoable listener throws it.
+     */
+    protected void  fire(
+    Property[]  properties,
+    Object[] newValues,
+    Object[] oldValues,
+    boolean bVetoable ) throws PropertyVetoException
+    {
+        // Only fire, if one or more properties changed
+        int nNumProps= properties.length;
+        if (nNumProps > 0)
+        {
+            PropertyChangeEvent[] arEvts= new PropertyChangeEvent[nNumProps];
+            int nAffectedProps= 0;
+            // Loop over all changed properties to fill the event struct
+            for (int i= 0; i < nNumProps; i++)
+            {
+                if ((bVetoable && (properties[i].Attributes & PropertyAttribute.CONSTRAINED) > 0)
+                    || (!bVetoable && (properties[i].Attributes & PropertyAttribute.BOUND) > 0))
+                {
+                    arEvts[i]= new PropertyChangeEvent(this, properties[i].Name, false,
+                                        properties[i].Handle, oldValues[i], newValues[i]);
+                    nAffectedProps++;
+                }
+            }
+            // fire the events for all changed properties
+            for (int i= 0; i < nAffectedProps; i++)
+            {
+                // get the listener container for the property name
+                InterfaceContainer lc;
+                if (bVetoable)
+                    lc= aVetoableLC.getContainer(arEvts[i].PropertyName);
+                else
+                    lc= aBoundLC.getContainer(arEvts[i].PropertyName);
+                Iterator it = lc != null ? lc.iterator() : null;
+                if (it != null)
+                {
+                    while( it.hasNext())
+                    {
+                        Object listener= it.next();
+                        if (bVetoable)
+                            ((XVetoableChangeListener) listener).vetoableChange(arEvts[i]);
+                        else
+                            ((XPropertyChangeListener) listener).propertyChange(arEvts[i]);
+                    }
+                }
+                   // broadcast to all listeners with "" property name
+                if(bVetoable)
+                    lc= listenerContainer.getContainer(XVetoableChangeListener.class);
+                else
+                    lc= listenerContainer.getContainer(XPropertyChangeListener.class);
+                it = lc != null ? lc.iterator() : null;
+                if (it != null)
+                {
+                    while(it.hasNext() )
+                    {
+                        Object listener= it.next();
+                        if( bVetoable ) // fire change Events?
+                            ((XVetoableChangeListener) listener).vetoableChange(arEvts[i]);
+                        else
+                            ((XPropertyChangeListener) listener).propertyChange(arEvts[i]);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            // fire at XPropertiesChangeListeners
+            // if nAffectedProps == 0 then there are no BOUND properties
+            if (!bVetoable && nAffectedProps > 0)
+            {
+
+                PropertyChangeEvent[] arReduced= new PropertyChangeEvent[nAffectedProps];
+                System.arraycopy(arEvts, 0, arReduced, 0, nAffectedProps);
+                InterfaceContainer lc= listenerContainer.getContainer(XPropertiesChangeListener.class);
+                Iterator it = lc != null ? lc.iterator() : null;
+                if (it != null)
+                {
+                    while (it.hasNext())
+                    {
+                        XPropertiesChangeListener listener = (XPropertiesChangeListener) it.next();
+                        // fire the whole event sequence to the XPropertiesChangeListener's
+                        listener.propertiesChange( arEvts );
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    // XFastPropertySet--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    public void setFastPropertyValue(int nHandle, Object aValue ) throws UnknownPropertyException,
+    PropertyVetoException, com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        Property prop= getPropertyByHandle(nHandle);
+        if (prop == null)
+            throw new UnknownPropertyException(" The property with handle : " + nHandle +" is unknown");
+        setPropertyValue(prop, aValue);
+    }
+
+    // XFastPropertySet --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    public Object getFastPropertyValue(int nHandle ) throws UnknownPropertyException,
+    WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        Property prop= getPropertyByHandle(nHandle);
+        if (prop == null)
+            throw new UnknownPropertyException("The property with handle : " + nHandle + " is unknown");
+        return getPropertyValue(prop);
+    }
+
+    // XMultiPropertySet -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    public void addPropertiesChangeListener(String[] propNames, XPropertiesChangeListener listener)
+    {
+        listenerContainer.addInterface(XPropertiesChangeListener.class, listener);
+    }
+
+    // XMultiPropertySet -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    public void firePropertiesChangeEvent(String[] propNames, XPropertiesChangeListener listener)
+    {
+        // Build the events.
+        PropertyChangeEvent[] arEvents= new PropertyChangeEvent[propNames.length];
+        int eventCount= 0;
+        // get a snapshot of the current property values
+        synchronized (this)
+        {
+            for (int i= 0; i < propNames.length; i++)
+            {
+                Property prop= getProperty(propNames[i]);
+                if (prop != null)
+                {
+                    Object value= null;
+                    try
+                    {
+                       value= getPropertyValue(prop);
+                    }
+                    catch(Exception e)
+                    {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    arEvents[eventCount]= new PropertyChangeEvent(this, prop.Name,
+                                        false, prop.Handle, value, value);
+                    eventCount++;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // fire events from unsynchronized section so as to prevent deadlocks
+        if (eventCount > 0)
+        {
+            // Reallocate the array of the events if necessary
+            if (arEvents.length != eventCount)
+            {
+                PropertyChangeEvent[] arPropsTmp= new PropertyChangeEvent[eventCount];
+                System.arraycopy(arEvents, 0, arPropsTmp, 0, eventCount);
+                arEvents= arPropsTmp;
+            }
+            listener.propertiesChange(arEvents);
+        }
+    }
+    // XMultiPropertySet -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    /** If a value for a property could not be retrieved then the respective element in the returned
+     *  array has the value null.
+     */
+    public Object[] getPropertyValues(String[] propNames)
+    {
+        Object[] arValues= new Object[propNames.length];
+        synchronized (this)
+        {
+            for (int i= 0; i < propNames.length; i++)
+            {
+                Object value= null;
+                try
+                {
+                    value= getPropertyValue(propNames[i]);
+                }
+                catch (Exception e)
+                {
+                }
+                arValues[i]= value;
+            }
+        }
+        return arValues;
+    }
+    // XMultiPropertySet -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    public void removePropertiesChangeListener(XPropertiesChangeListener xPropertiesChangeListener)
+    {
+        listenerContainer.removeInterface(XPropertiesChangeListener.class, xPropertiesChangeListener);
+    }
+    // XMultiPropertySet -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    /** If the array of property names contains an unknown property then it will be ignored.
+     */
+    public void setPropertyValues(String[] propNames, Object[] values) throws PropertyVetoException, com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        for (int i= 0; i < propNames.length; i++)
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                setPropertyValue(propNames[i], values[i]);
+            }
+            catch (UnknownPropertyException e)
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+        }
+    }
+
+    private class PropertySetInfo implements XPropertySetInfo
+    {
+        public com.sun.star.beans.Property[] getProperties()
+        {
+            return PropertySet.this.getProperties();
+        }
+
+        public com.sun.star.beans.Property getPropertyByName(String name) throws UnknownPropertyException
+        {
+            return getProperty(name);
+        }
+
+        public boolean hasPropertyByName(String name)
+        {
+            return getProperty(name) != null;
+        }
+
+    }
+}
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/PropertySetMixin.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/PropertySetMixin.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0c050d676
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/PropertySetMixin.java
@@ -0,0 +1,1111 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+
+import com.sun.star.beans.Property;
+import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyAttribute;
+import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
+import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState;
+import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue;
+import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyVetoException;
+import com.sun.star.beans.UnknownPropertyException;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyChangeListener;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySetInfo;
+import com.sun.star.beans.XVetoableChangeListener;
+import com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException;
+import com.sun.star.container.XHierarchicalNameAccess;
+import com.sun.star.lang.DisposedException;
+import com.sun.star.lang.EventObject;
+import com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetException;
+import com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetRuntimeException;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XCompoundTypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XIdlClass;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XIdlField2;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XIndirectTypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XInterfaceAttributeTypeDescription2;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XInterfaceMemberTypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XInterfaceTypeDescription2;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XStructTypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.XTypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.reflection.theCoreReflection;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Any;
+import com.sun.star.uno.AnyConverter;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XInterface;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+   A helper mixin to implement certain UNO interfaces related to property set
+   handling on top of the attributes of a given UNO interface type.
+
+   <p>A client will mix in this class by keeping a reference to an instance of
+   this class, and forwarding all methods of (a subset of the interfaces)
+   <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet</code>,
+   <code>com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet</code>, and
+   <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyAccess</code> to it.</p>
+
+   <p>Client code should not use the monitors associated with instances of this
+   class, as they are used for internal purposes.</p>
+
+   @since UDK 3.2
+*/
+public final class PropertySetMixin {
+    /**
+       The constructor.
+
+       @param context the component context used by this instance; must not be
+       null, and must supply the
+       <code>com.sun.star.reflection.theCoreReflection</code> and
+       <code>com.sun.star.reflection.theTypeDescriptionManager</code> singletons
+
+       @param object the client UNO object into which this instance is mixed in;
+       must not be null, and must support the given <code>type</code>
+
+       @param type the UNO interface type whose attributes are mapped to
+       properties; must not be null, and must represent a UNO interface type
+
+       @param absentOptional a list of optional properties that are not present,
+       and should thus not be visible via
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.getPropertySetInfo</code>,
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.addPropertyChangeListener</code>,
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.removePropertyChangeListener<!--
+       --></code>,
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.addVetoableChangeListener</code>,
+       and <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.<!--
+       -->removeVetoableChangeListener</code>; null is treated the same as an
+       empty list; if non-null, the given array must not be modified after it is
+       passed to this constructor.  For consistency reasons, the given
+       <code>absentOptional</code> should only contain the names of attributes
+       that represent optional properties that are not present (that is, the
+       attribute getters and setters always throw a
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.UnknownPropertyException</code>), and should
+       contain each such name only once.  If an optional property is not present
+       (that is, the corresponding attribute getter and setter always throw a
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.UnknownPropertyException</code>) but is not
+       contained in the given <code>absentOptional</code>, then it will be
+       visible via
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.getPropertySetInfo</code> as a
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.Property</code> with a set
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.PropertyAttribute.OPTIONAL</code>.  If the given
+       <code>object</code> does not implement
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet</code>, then the given
+       <code>absentOptional</code> is effectively ignored and can be null or
+       empty.
+    */
+    public PropertySetMixin(
+        XComponentContext context, XInterface object, Type type,
+        String[] absentOptional)
+    {
+        this.context = context;
+        this.object = object;
+        this.type = type;
+        this.absentOptional = absentOptional;
+        idlClass = getReflection(type.getTypeName());
+        XTypeDescription ifc;
+        try {
+            XHierarchicalNameAccess xhna = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XHierarchicalNameAccess.class,
+                    context.getValueByName(
+                        "/singletons/com.sun.star.reflection."
+                        + "theTypeDescriptionManager"));
+            ifc = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                XTypeDescription.class,
+                xhna.getByHierarchicalName(type.getTypeName()));
+        } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        HashMap<String,PropertyData> map = new HashMap<String,PropertyData>();
+        ArrayList<String> handleNames = new ArrayList<String>();
+        initProperties(ifc, map, handleNames, new HashSet<String>());
+        properties = map;
+        handleMap = handleNames.toArray(new String[handleNames.size()]);
+    }
+
+    /**
+       A method used by clients when implementing UNO interface type attribute
+       setter functions.
+
+       <p>First, this method checks whether this instance has already been
+       disposed (see {@link #dispose}), and throws a
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.DisposedException</code> if applicable.  For a
+       constrained attribute (whose setter can explicitly raise
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.PropertyVetoException</code>), this method
+       notifies any <code>com.sun.star.beans.XVetoableChangeListener</code>s.
+       For a bound attribute, this method modifies the passed-in
+       <code>bound</code> so that it can afterwards be used to notify any
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyChangeListener</code>s.  This method
+       should be called before storing the new attribute value, and
+       <code>bound.notifyListeners()</code> should be called exactly once after
+       storing the new attribute value (in case the attribute is bound;
+       otherwise, calling <code>bound.notifyListeners()</code> is ignored).
+       Furthermore, <code>bound.notifyListeners()</code> and this method have to
+       be called from the same thread.</p>
+
+       @param propertyName the name of the property (which is the same as the
+       name of the attribute that is going to be set)
+
+       @param oldValue the property value corresponding to the old attribute
+       value.  This is only used as
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.PropertyChangeEvent.OldValue</code>, which is
+       rather useless, anyway (see &ldquo;Using the Observer Pattern&rdquo; in
+       <a href="http://tools.openoffice.org/CodingGuidelines.sxw">
+       <cite>OpenOffice.org Coding Guidelines</cite></a>).  If the attribute
+       that is going to be set is neither bound nor constrained, or if
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.PropertyChangeEvent.OldValue</code> should not
+       be set, {@link Any#VOID} can be used instead.
+
+       @param newValue the property value corresponding to the new
+       attribute value.  This is only used as
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.PropertyChangeEvent.NewValue</code>, which is
+       rather useless, anyway (see &ldquo;Using the Observer Pattern&rdquo; in
+       <a href="http://tools.openoffice.org/CodingGuidelines.sxw">
+       <cite>OpenOffice.org Coding Guidelines</cite></a>), <em>unless</em> the
+       attribute that is going to be set is constrained.  If the attribute
+       that is going to be set is neither bound nor constrained, or if it is
+       only bound but
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.PropertyChangeEvent.NewValue</code> should not
+       be set, {@link Any#VOID} can be used instead.
+
+       @param bound a reference to a fresh {@link BoundListeners} instance
+       (which has not been passed to this method before, and on which
+       {@link BoundListeners#notifyListeners} has not yet been called); may only
+       be null if the attribute that is going to be set is not bound
+
+       @throws PropertyVetoException if a vetoable listener throws it.
+    */
+    public void prepareSet(
+        String propertyName, Object oldValue, Object newValue,
+        BoundListeners bound)
+        throws PropertyVetoException
+    {
+        // assert properties.get(propertyName) != null;
+        Property p = properties.get(propertyName).property;
+        ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener> specificVeto = null;
+        ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener> unspecificVeto = null;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if (disposed) {
+                throw new DisposedException("disposed", object);
+            }
+            if ((p.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.CONSTRAINED) != 0) {
+                ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener> o = vetoListeners.get(propertyName);
+                if (o != null) {
+                    specificVeto = new ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener>(o);
+                }
+                o = vetoListeners.get("");
+                if (o != null) {
+                    unspecificVeto = new ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener>(o);
+                }
+            }
+            if ((p.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.BOUND) != 0) {
+                // assert bound != null;
+                ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener> o = boundListeners.get(propertyName);
+                if (o != null) {
+                    bound.specificListeners = new ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener>(o);
+                }
+                o = boundListeners.get("");
+                if (o != null) {
+                    bound.unspecificListeners = new ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener>(o);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if ((p.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.CONSTRAINED) != 0) {
+            PropertyChangeEvent event = new PropertyChangeEvent(
+                object, propertyName, false, p.Handle, oldValue, newValue);
+            if (specificVeto != null) {
+                for (Iterator<XVetoableChangeListener> i = specificVeto.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                    try {
+                        i.next().vetoableChange(event);
+                    } catch (DisposedException e) {}
+                }
+            }
+            if (unspecificVeto != null) {
+                for (Iterator<XVetoableChangeListener> i = unspecificVeto.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                    try {
+                        i.next().vetoableChange(event);
+                    } catch (DisposedException e) {}
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if ((p.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.BOUND) != 0) {
+            // assert bound != null;
+            bound.event = new PropertyChangeEvent(
+                object, propertyName, false, p.Handle, oldValue, newValue);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       A simplified version of {@link #prepareSet(String, Object, Object,
+       PropertySetMixin.BoundListeners)}.
+
+       <p>This method is useful for attributes that are not constrained.</p>
+
+       @param propertyName the name of the property (which is the same as the
+       name of the attribute that is going to be set)
+
+       @param bound a reference to a fresh {@link BoundListeners} instance
+       (which has not been passed to this method before, and on which
+       {@link BoundListeners#notifyListeners} has not yet been called); may only
+       be null if the attribute that is going to be set is not bound
+    */
+    public void prepareSet(String propertyName, BoundListeners bound) {
+        try {
+            prepareSet(propertyName, Any.VOID, Any.VOID, bound);
+        } catch (PropertyVetoException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("unexpected " + e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Marks this instance as being disposed.
+
+       <p>See <code>com.sun.star.lang.XComponent</code> for the general concept
+       of disposing UNO objects.  On the first call to this method, all
+       registered listeners
+       (<code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyChangeListener</code>s and
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XVetoableChangeListener</code>s) are notified of
+       the disposing source.  Any subsequent calls to this method are
+       ignored.</p>
+     */
+    public void dispose() {
+        HashMap<String,ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener>> bound;
+        HashMap<String,ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener>> veto;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            bound = boundListeners;
+            boundListeners = null;
+            veto = vetoListeners;
+            vetoListeners = null;
+            disposed = true;
+        }
+        EventObject event = new EventObject(object);
+        if (bound != null) {
+            for (Iterator<ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener>> i = bound.values().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                for (Iterator<XPropertyChangeListener> j = i.next().iterator(); j.hasNext();)
+                {
+                    j.next().disposing(event);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if (veto != null) {
+            for (Iterator<ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener>> i = veto.values().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                for (Iterator<XVetoableChangeListener> j = i.next().iterator(); j.hasNext();)
+                {
+                    j.next().disposing(event);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.getPropertySetInfo</code>.
+       @return See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+    */
+    public XPropertySetInfo getPropertySetInfo() {
+        return new Info(properties);
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.setPropertyValue</code>.
+       @param propertyName
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @param value
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws PropertyVetoException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+    */
+    public void setPropertyValue(String propertyName, Object value)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, PropertyVetoException,
+        com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        setProperty(propertyName, value, false, false, (short) 1);
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.getPropertyValue</code>.
+       @param propertyName
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @return
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+    */
+    public Object getPropertyValue(String propertyName)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        return getProperty(propertyName, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.addPropertyChangeListener</code>.
+
+       <p>If a listener is added more than once, it will receive all relevant
+       notifications multiple times.</p>
+
+       @param propertyName
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @param listener
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+    */
+    public void addPropertyChangeListener(
+        String propertyName, XPropertyChangeListener listener)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        // assert listener != null;
+        checkUnknown(propertyName);
+        boolean disp;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            disp = disposed;
+            if (!disp) {
+                ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener> v = boundListeners.get(propertyName);
+                if (v == null) {
+                    v = new ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener>();
+                    boundListeners.put(propertyName, v);
+                }
+                v.add(listener);
+            }
+        }
+        if (disp) {
+            listener.disposing(new EventObject(object));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements <code>
+       com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.removePropertyChangeListener</code>.
+
+       @param propertyName
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @param listener
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+    */
+    public void removePropertyChangeListener(
+        String propertyName, XPropertyChangeListener listener)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        // assert listener != null;
+        checkUnknown(propertyName);
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if (boundListeners != null) {
+                ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener> v = boundListeners.get(propertyName);
+                if (v != null) {
+                    v.remove(listener);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.addVetoableChangeListener</code>.
+
+       <p>If a listener is added more than once, it will receive all relevant
+       notifications multiple times.</p>
+
+       @param propertyName
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @param listener
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+    */
+    public void addVetoableChangeListener(
+        String propertyName, XVetoableChangeListener listener)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        // assert listener != null;
+        checkUnknown(propertyName);
+        boolean disp;
+        synchronized (this) {
+            disp = disposed;
+            if (!disp) {
+                ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener> v = vetoListeners.get(propertyName);
+                if (v == null) {
+                    v = new ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener>();
+                    vetoListeners.put(propertyName, v);
+                }
+                v.add(listener);
+            }
+        }
+        if (disp) {
+            listener.disposing(new EventObject(object));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements <code>
+       com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.removeVetoableChangeListener</code>.
+
+       @param propertyName
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @param listener
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet
+    */
+    public void removeVetoableChangeListener(
+        String propertyName, XVetoableChangeListener listener)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        // assert listener != null;
+        checkUnknown(propertyName);
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if (vetoListeners != null) {
+                ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener> v =  vetoListeners.get(propertyName);
+                if (v != null) {
+                    v.remove(listener);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet.setFastPropertyValue</code>.
+
+       @param handle
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+       @param value
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+       @throws PropertyVetoException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+    */
+    public void setFastPropertyValue(int handle, Object value)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, PropertyVetoException,
+        com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        setProperty(translateHandle(handle), value, false, false, (short) 1);
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet.getFastPropertyValue</code>.
+
+       @param handle
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+       @return
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XFastPropertySet
+    */
+    public Object getFastPropertyValue(int handle)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        return getProperty(translateHandle(handle), null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyAccess.getPropertyValues</code>.
+
+       @return
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyAccess
+    */
+    public PropertyValue[] getPropertyValues() {
+        PropertyValue[] s = new PropertyValue[handleMap.length];
+        int n = 0;
+        for (int i = 0; i < handleMap.length; ++i) {
+            PropertyState[] state = new PropertyState[1];
+            Object value;
+            try {
+                value = getProperty(handleMap[i], state);
+            } catch (UnknownPropertyException e) {
+                continue;
+            } catch (WrappedTargetException e) {
+                throw new WrappedTargetRuntimeException(e.getCause(),
+                    e.getMessage(), object, e.TargetException);
+            }
+            s[n++] = new PropertyValue(handleMap[i], i, value, state[0]);
+        }
+        if (n < handleMap.length) {
+            PropertyValue[] s2 = new PropertyValue[n];
+            System.arraycopy(s, 0, s2, 0, n);
+            s = s2;
+        }
+        return s;
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Implements
+       <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyAccess.setPropertyValues</code>.
+
+       @param props
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyAccess
+       @throws UnknownPropertyException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyAccess
+       @throws PropertyVetoException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyAccess
+       @throws WrappedTargetException
+            See com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyAccess
+    */
+    public void setPropertyValues(PropertyValue[] props)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, PropertyVetoException,
+        com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        for (int i = 0; i < props.length; ++i) {
+            if (props[i].Handle != -1
+                && !props[i].Name.equals(translateHandle(props[i].Handle)))
+            {
+                throw new UnknownPropertyException(
+                    ("name " + props[i].Name + " does not match handle "
+                     + props[i].Handle),
+                    object);
+            }
+            setProperty(
+                props[i].Name, props[i].Value,
+                props[i].State == PropertyState.AMBIGUOUS_VALUE,
+                props[i].State == PropertyState.DEFAULT_VALUE, (short) 0);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       A class used by clients of {@link PropertySetMixin} when implementing UNO
+       interface type attribute setter functions.
+
+       @see #prepareSet(String, Object, Object, PropertySetMixin.BoundListeners)
+    */
+    public static final class BoundListeners {
+
+        /**
+           Notifies any
+           <code>com.sun.star.beans.XPropertyChangeListener</code>s.
+
+           @see #prepareSet(String, Object, Object,
+           PropertySetMixin.BoundListeners)
+        */
+        public void notifyListeners() {
+            if (specificListeners != null) {
+                for (Iterator<XPropertyChangeListener> i = specificListeners.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                    try {
+                        i.next().propertyChange(event);
+                    } catch (DisposedException e) {}
+                }
+            }
+            if (unspecificListeners != null) {
+                for (Iterator<XPropertyChangeListener> i = unspecificListeners.iterator(); i.hasNext();)
+                {
+                    try {
+                        i.next().propertyChange(event);
+                    } catch (DisposedException e) {}
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener> specificListeners = null;
+        private ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener> unspecificListeners = null;
+        private PropertyChangeEvent event = null;
+    }
+
+    private XIdlClass getReflection(String typeName) {
+        return theCoreReflection.get(context).forName(typeName);
+    }
+
+    private void initProperties(
+        XTypeDescription type, HashMap<String,PropertyData> map, ArrayList<String> handleNames, HashSet<String> seen)
+    {
+        XInterfaceTypeDescription2 ifc = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XInterfaceTypeDescription2.class, resolveTypedefs(type));
+        if (!seen.add(ifc.getName())) {
+            return;
+        }
+        XTypeDescription[] bases = ifc.getBaseTypes();
+        for (int i = 0; i < bases.length; ++i) {
+            initProperties(bases[i], map, handleNames, seen);
+        }
+        XInterfaceMemberTypeDescription[] members = ifc.getMembers();
+        for (int i = 0; i < members.length; ++i) {
+            if (members[i].getTypeClass() == TypeClass.INTERFACE_ATTRIBUTE)
+            {
+                XInterfaceAttributeTypeDescription2 attr =
+                    UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XInterfaceAttributeTypeDescription2.class,
+                        members[i]);
+                short attrAttribs = 0;
+                if (attr.isBound()) {
+                    attrAttribs |= PropertyAttribute.BOUND;
+                }
+                boolean setUnknown = false;
+                if (attr.isReadOnly()) {
+                    attrAttribs |= PropertyAttribute.READONLY;
+                    setUnknown = true;
+                }
+                XCompoundTypeDescription[] excs = attr.getGetExceptions();
+                boolean getUnknown = false;
+                //XXX  Special interpretation of getter/setter exceptions
+                // only works if the specified exceptions are of the exact
+                // type, not of a supertype:
+                for (int j = 0; j < excs.length; ++j) {
+                    if (excs[j].getName().equals(
+                            "com.sun.star.beans.UnknownPropertyException"))
+                    {
+                        getUnknown = true;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+                excs = attr.getSetExceptions();
+                for (int j = 0; j < excs.length; ++j) {
+                    if (excs[j].getName().equals(
+                            "com.sun.star.beans.UnknownPropertyException"))
+                    {
+                        setUnknown = true;
+                    } else if (excs[j].getName().equals(
+                                   "com.sun.star.beans."
+                                   + "PropertyVetoException"))
+                    {
+                        attrAttribs |= PropertyAttribute.CONSTRAINED;
+                    }
+                }
+                if (getUnknown && setUnknown) {
+                    attrAttribs |= PropertyAttribute.OPTIONAL;
+                }
+                XTypeDescription t = attr.getType();
+                for (;;) {
+                    t = resolveTypedefs(t);
+                    short n;
+                    if (t.getName().startsWith(
+                            "com.sun.star.beans.Ambiguous<"))
+                    {
+                        n = PropertyAttribute.MAYBEAMBIGUOUS;
+                    } else if (t.getName().startsWith(
+                                   "com.sun.star.beans.Defaulted<"))
+                    {
+                        n = PropertyAttribute.MAYBEDEFAULT;
+                    } else if (t.getName().startsWith(
+                                   "com.sun.star.beans.Optional<"))
+                    {
+                        n = PropertyAttribute.MAYBEVOID;
+                    } else {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                    attrAttribs |= n;
+                    t = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XStructTypeDescription.class, t).getTypeArguments()[0];
+                }
+                String name = members[i].getMemberName();
+                boolean present = true;
+                if (absentOptional != null) {
+                    for (int j = 0; j < absentOptional.length; ++j) {
+                        if (name.equals(absentOptional[j])) {
+                            present = false;
+                            break;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                if (map.put(
+                        name,
+                        new PropertyData(
+                            new Property(
+                                name, handleNames.size(),
+                                new Type(t.getName(), t.getTypeClass()),
+                                attrAttribs),
+                            present))
+                    != null)
+                {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(
+                        "inconsistent UNO type registry");
+                }
+                handleNames.add(name);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String translateHandle(int handle) throws UnknownPropertyException {
+        if (handle < 0 || handle >= handleMap.length) {
+            throw new UnknownPropertyException("bad handle " + handle, object);
+        }
+        return handleMap[handle];
+    }
+
+    private void setProperty(
+        String name, Object value, boolean isAmbiguous, boolean isDefaulted,
+        short illegalArgumentPosition)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, PropertyVetoException,
+        com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        PropertyData p = properties.get(name);
+        if (p == null) {
+            throw new UnknownPropertyException(name, object);
+        }
+        if ((isAmbiguous
+             && (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEAMBIGUOUS) == 0)
+            || (isDefaulted
+                && ((p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEDEFAULT)
+                    == 0)))
+        {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                ("flagging as ambiguous/defaulted non-ambiguous/defaulted"
+                 + " property " + name),
+                object, illegalArgumentPosition);
+
+        }
+        XIdlField2 f = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XIdlField2.class, idlClass.getField(name));
+        Object[] o = new Object[] {
+                new Any(type, UnoRuntime.queryInterface(type, object)) };
+        Object v = wrapValue(
+            value,
+            UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                XIdlField2.class, idlClass.getField(name)).getType(),
+            (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEAMBIGUOUS) != 0,
+            isAmbiguous,
+            (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEDEFAULT) != 0,
+            isDefaulted,
+            (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEVOID) != 0);
+        try {
+            f.set(o, v);
+        } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            if (e.ArgumentPosition == 1) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(e,
+                    e.getMessage(), object, illegalArgumentPosition);
+            } else {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalAccessException e) {
+            //TODO  Clarify whether PropertyVetoException is the correct
+            // exception to throw when trying to set a read-only property:
+            throw new PropertyVetoException(e,
+                "cannot set read-only property " + name, object);
+        } catch (WrappedTargetRuntimeException e) {
+            //FIXME  A WrappedTargetRuntimeException from XIdlField2.get is not
+            // guaranteed to originate directly within XIdlField2.get (and thus
+            // have the expected semantics); it might also be passed through
+            // from lower layers.
+            if (new Type(UnknownPropertyException.class).isSupertypeOf(
+                    AnyConverter.getType(e.TargetException))
+                && (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.OPTIONAL) != 0)
+            {
+                throw new UnknownPropertyException(e, name, object);
+            } else if (new Type(PropertyVetoException.class).isSupertypeOf(
+                           AnyConverter.getType(e.TargetException))
+                       && ((p.property.Attributes
+                            & PropertyAttribute.CONSTRAINED)
+                           != 0))
+            {
+                throw new PropertyVetoException(e, name, object);
+            } else {
+                throw new WrappedTargetException(e.getCause(),
+                    e.getMessage(), object, e.TargetException);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Object getProperty(String name, PropertyState[] state)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException, WrappedTargetException
+    {
+        PropertyData p = properties.get(name);
+        if (p == null) {
+            throw new UnknownPropertyException(name, object);
+        }
+        XIdlField2 field = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+            XIdlField2.class, idlClass.getField(name));
+        Object value;
+        try {
+            value = field.get(
+                new Any(type, UnoRuntime.queryInterface(type, object)));
+        } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (WrappedTargetRuntimeException e) {
+            //FIXME  A WrappedTargetRuntimeException from XIdlField2.get is not
+            // guaranteed to originate directly within XIdlField2.get (and thus
+            // have the expected semantics); it might also be passed through
+            // from lower layers.
+            if (new Type(UnknownPropertyException.class).isSupertypeOf(
+                    AnyConverter.getType(e.TargetException))
+                && (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.OPTIONAL) != 0)
+            {
+                throw new UnknownPropertyException(e, name, object);
+            } else {
+                throw new WrappedTargetException(e.getCause(),
+                    e.getMessage(), object, e.TargetException);
+            }
+        }
+        boolean undoAmbiguous
+            = (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEAMBIGUOUS) != 0;
+        boolean undoDefaulted
+            = (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEDEFAULT) != 0;
+        boolean undoOptional
+            = (p.property.Attributes & PropertyAttribute.MAYBEVOID) != 0;
+        boolean isAmbiguous = false;
+        boolean isDefaulted = false;
+        while (undoAmbiguous || undoDefaulted || undoOptional) {
+            String typeName = AnyConverter.getType(value).getTypeName();
+            if (undoAmbiguous
+                && typeName.startsWith("com.sun.star.beans.Ambiguous<"))
+            {
+                XIdlClass ambiguous = getReflection(typeName);
+                try {
+                    isAmbiguous = AnyConverter.toBoolean(
+                        UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                            XIdlField2.class,
+                            ambiguous.getField("IsAmbiguous")).get(value));
+                    value = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XIdlField2.class,
+                        ambiguous.getField("Value")).get(value);
+                } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+                undoAmbiguous = false;
+            } else if (undoDefaulted
+                       && typeName.startsWith("com.sun.star.beans.Defaulted<"))
+            {
+                XIdlClass defaulted = getReflection(typeName);
+                try {
+                    isDefaulted = AnyConverter.toBoolean(
+                        UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                            XIdlField2.class,
+                            defaulted.getField("IsDefaulted")).get(value));
+                    value = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XIdlField2.class,
+                        defaulted.getField("Value")).get(value);
+                } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+                undoDefaulted = false;
+            } else if (undoOptional
+                       && typeName.startsWith("com.sun.star.beans.Optional<"))
+            {
+                XIdlClass optional = getReflection(typeName);
+                try {
+                    boolean present = AnyConverter.toBoolean(
+                        UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                            XIdlField2.class,
+                            optional.getField("IsPresent")).get(value));
+                    if (!present) {
+                        value = Any.VOID;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                    value = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XIdlField2.class,
+                        optional.getField("Value")).get(value);
+                } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+                undoOptional = false;
+            } else {
+                throw new RuntimeException(
+                    "unexpected type of attribute " + name);
+            }
+        }
+        if (state != null) {
+            //XXX  If isAmbiguous && isDefaulted, arbitrarily choose
+            // AMBIGUOUS_VALUE over DEFAULT_VALUE:
+            state[0] = isAmbiguous
+                ? PropertyState.AMBIGUOUS_VALUE
+                : isDefaulted
+                ? PropertyState.DEFAULT_VALUE : PropertyState.DIRECT_VALUE;
+        }
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    private Object wrapValue(
+        Object value, XIdlClass type, boolean wrapAmbiguous,
+        boolean isAmbiguous, boolean wrapDefaulted, boolean isDefaulted,
+        boolean wrapOptional)
+    {
+        if (wrapAmbiguous
+            && type.getName().startsWith("com.sun.star.beans.Ambiguous<"))
+        {
+            Object[] strct = new Object[1];
+            type.createObject(strct);
+            try {
+                XIdlField2 field = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XIdlField2.class, type.getField("Value"));
+                field.set(
+                    strct,
+                    wrapValue(
+                        value, field.getType(), false, false, wrapDefaulted,
+                        isDefaulted, wrapOptional));
+                UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XIdlField2.class, type.getField("IsAmbiguous")).set(
+                        strct, Boolean.valueOf(isAmbiguous));
+            } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalAccessException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+            return strct[0];
+        } else if (wrapDefaulted
+                   && type.getName().startsWith(
+                       "com.sun.star.beans.Defaulted<"))
+        {
+            Object[] strct = new Object[1];
+            type.createObject(strct);
+            try {
+                XIdlField2 field = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XIdlField2.class, type.getField("Value"));
+                field.set(
+                    strct,
+                    wrapValue(
+                        value, field.getType(), wrapAmbiguous, isAmbiguous,
+                        false, false, wrapOptional));
+                UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XIdlField2.class, type.getField("IsDefaulted")).set(
+                        strct, Boolean.valueOf(isDefaulted));
+            } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalAccessException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+            return strct[0];
+        } else if (wrapOptional
+                   && type.getName().startsWith("com.sun.star.beans.Optional<"))
+        {
+            Object[] strct = new Object[1];
+            type.createObject(strct);
+            boolean present = !AnyConverter.isVoid(value);
+            try {
+                UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                    XIdlField2.class, type.getField("IsPresent")).set(
+                        strct, Boolean.valueOf(present));
+                if (present) {
+                    XIdlField2 field = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                        XIdlField2.class, type.getField("Value"));
+                    field.set(
+                        strct,
+                        wrapValue(
+                            value, field.getType(), wrapAmbiguous, isAmbiguous,
+                            wrapDefaulted, isDefaulted, false));
+                }
+            } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalAccessException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+            return strct[0];
+        } else {
+            if (wrapAmbiguous || wrapDefaulted || wrapOptional) {
+                throw new RuntimeException("unexpected type of attribute");
+            }
+            return value;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static XTypeDescription resolveTypedefs(XTypeDescription type) {
+        while (type.getTypeClass() == TypeClass.TYPEDEF) {
+            type = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
+                XIndirectTypeDescription.class, type).getReferencedType();
+        }
+        return type;
+    }
+
+    private PropertyData get(Object object, String propertyName)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException
+    {
+        PropertyData p = properties.get(propertyName);
+        if (p == null || !p.present) {
+            throw new UnknownPropertyException(propertyName, object);
+        }
+        return p;
+    }
+
+    private void checkUnknown(String propertyName)
+        throws UnknownPropertyException
+    {
+        if (propertyName.length() != 0) {
+            get(this, propertyName);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final class PropertyData {
+        public PropertyData(Property property, boolean present) {
+            this.property = property;
+            this.present = present;
+        }
+
+        public final Property property;
+        public final boolean present;
+    }
+
+    private final class Info extends WeakBase implements XPropertySetInfo
+    {
+        public Info(Map<String,PropertyData> properties) {
+            this.properties = properties;
+        }
+
+        public Property[] getProperties() {
+            ArrayList<Property> al = new ArrayList<Property>(properties.size());
+            for (Iterator<PropertyData> i = properties.values().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                PropertyData p = i.next();
+                if (p.present) {
+                    al.add(p.property);
+                }
+            }
+            return al.toArray(new Property[al.size()]);
+        }
+
+        public Property getPropertyByName(String name)
+            throws UnknownPropertyException
+        {
+            return get(this, name).property;
+        }
+
+        public boolean hasPropertyByName(String name) {
+            PropertyData p = properties.get(name);
+            return p != null && p.present;
+        }
+
+        private final Map<String,PropertyData> properties;
+    }
+
+    private final XComponentContext context;
+    private final XInterface object;
+    private final Type type;
+    private final String[] absentOptional;
+    private final XIdlClass idlClass;
+    private final Map<String,PropertyData> properties; // from String to Property
+    private final String[] handleMap;
+
+    private HashMap<String,ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener>> boundListeners
+                  = new HashMap<String,ArrayList<XPropertyChangeListener>>();
+        // from String to Vector of XPropertyChangeListener
+    private HashMap<String,ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener>> vetoListeners
+                  = new HashMap<String,ArrayList<XVetoableChangeListener>>();
+        // from String to Vector of XVetoableChangeListener
+    private boolean disposed = false;
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/UnoUrl.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/UnoUrl.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8bb4d2643
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/UnoUrl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,401 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+/**
+ * Object representation and parsing of Uno Urls,
+ * which allow to locate a named Uno object in a
+ * different process. A Uno Url consists of the
+ * specification of a connection, protocol and
+ * rootOid delimited with a ';'.
+ * The syntax of a Uno Url is
+ *
+ * <code>
+ * [uno:]connection-type,parameters;protocol-name,parameters;objectname";
+ * </code>
+ *
+ * An example Uno Url will look like this:
+ *
+ * <code>
+ * socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager
+ * </code>
+ *
+ * For more information about Uno Url please consult
+ * <a href="http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/spec/uno-url.html">
+ * http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/spec/uno-url.html</a>
+ *
+ * Usage:
+ *
+ * <code>
+ *   UnoUrl url = UnoUrl.parseUnoUrl("socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager");
+ * </code>
+ */
+public class UnoUrl {
+
+    private static final String FORMAT_ERROR =
+        "syntax: [uno:]connection-type,parameters;protocol-name,parameters;objectname";
+
+    private static final String VALUE_CHAR_SET = "!$&'()*+-./:?@_~";
+    private static final String OID_CHAR_SET = VALUE_CHAR_SET + ",=";
+
+    private final UnoUrlPart connection;
+    private final UnoUrlPart protocol;
+    private final String rootOid;
+
+    private static class UnoUrlPart {
+
+        private final String partTypeName;
+        private final HashMap<String,String> partParameters;
+        private final String uninterpretedParameterString;
+
+        public UnoUrlPart(
+            String uninterpretedParameterString,
+            String partTypeName,
+            HashMap<String,String> partParameters) {
+            this.uninterpretedParameterString = uninterpretedParameterString;
+            this.partTypeName = partTypeName;
+            this.partParameters = partParameters;
+        }
+
+        public String getPartTypeName() {
+            return partTypeName;
+        }
+
+        public HashMap<String,String> getPartParameters() {
+            return partParameters;
+        }
+
+        public String getUninterpretedParameterString() {
+            return uninterpretedParameterString;
+        }
+
+        public String getUninterpretedString() {
+            StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(partTypeName);
+            if (uninterpretedParameterString.length() > 0) {
+                buf.append(',');
+                buf.append(uninterpretedParameterString);
+            }
+            return buf.toString();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private UnoUrl(
+        UnoUrlPart connectionPart,
+        UnoUrlPart protocolPart,
+        String rootOid) {
+        this.connection = connectionPart;
+        this.protocol = protocolPart;
+        this.rootOid = rootOid;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the name of the connection of this
+     * Uno Url. Encoded characters are not allowed.
+     *
+     * @return The connection name as string.
+     */
+    public String getConnection() {
+        return connection.getPartTypeName();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the name of the protocol of this
+     * Uno Url. Encoded characters are not allowed.
+     *
+     * @return The protocol name as string.
+     */
+    public String getProtocol() {
+        return protocol.getPartTypeName();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Return the object name. Encoded character are
+     * not allowed.
+     *
+     * @return The object name as String.
+     */
+    public String getRootOid() {
+        return rootOid;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the protocol parameters as
+     * a Hashmap with key/value pairs. Encoded
+     * characters like '%41' are decoded.
+     *
+     * @return a HashMap with key/value pairs for protocol parameters.
+     */
+    public HashMap<String,String> getProtocolParameters() {
+        return protocol.getPartParameters();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the connection parameters as
+     * a Hashmap with key/value pairs. Encoded
+     * characters like '%41' are decoded.
+     *
+     * @return a HashMap with key/value pairs for connection parameters.
+     */
+    public HashMap<String,String> getConnectionParameters() {
+        return connection.getPartParameters();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw specification of the protocol
+     * parameters. Encoded characters like '%41' are
+     * not decoded.
+     *
+     * @return The uninterpreted protocol parameters as string.
+     */
+    public String getProtocolParametersAsString() {
+        return protocol.getUninterpretedParameterString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw specification of the connection
+     * parameters. Encoded characters like '%41' are
+     * not decoded.
+     *
+     * @return The uninterpreted connection parameters as string.
+     */
+    public String getConnectionParametersAsString() {
+        return connection.getUninterpretedParameterString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw specification of the protocol
+     * name and parameters. Encoded characters like '%41' are
+     * not decoded.
+     *
+     * @return The uninterpreted protocol name and parameters as string.
+     */
+    public String getProtocolAndParametersAsString() {
+        return protocol.getUninterpretedString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw specification of the connection
+     * name and parameters. Encoded characters like '%41' are
+     * not decoded.
+     *
+     * @return The uninterpreted connection name and parameters as string.
+     */
+    public String getConnectionAndParametersAsString() {
+        return connection.getUninterpretedString();
+    }
+
+    private static String decodeUTF8(String s)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+
+        if (!s.contains("%")) {
+            return s;
+        }
+        try {
+            int length = s.length();
+            ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(length);
+            for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+                int ch = s.charAt(i);
+
+                if (ch == '%') {
+                    if (i+3 > length)
+                        throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                            "Incomplete trailing escape (%) pattern");
+                    try {
+                        ch = Integer.parseInt(s.substring(i+1,i+3),16);
+                    } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+                        throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(e);
+                    }
+                    if (ch < 0)
+                        throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                            "Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - negative value");
+                    i+=2;
+                }
+
+                bb.put((byte) (ch & 0xFF));
+            }
+
+            byte[] bytes = new byte[bb.position()];
+            System.arraycopy(bb.array(), 0, bytes, 0, bytes.length);
+            return new String(bytes, "UTF-8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(e,
+                "Couldn't convert parameter string to UTF-8 string");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static HashMap<String,String> buildParamHashMap(String paramString)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+        HashMap<String,String> params = new HashMap<String,String>();
+
+        int pos = 0;
+
+        while (true) {
+            char c = ',';
+
+            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
+            while ((pos < paramString.length())
+                && ((c = paramString.charAt(pos++)) != '=')) {
+                sb.append(c);
+            }
+            String aKey = sb.toString();
+
+            sb = new StringBuffer();
+            while ((pos < paramString.length())
+                && ((c = paramString.charAt(pos++)) != ',')
+                && c != ';') {
+                sb.append(c);
+            }
+            String aValue = sb.toString();
+
+            if ((aKey.length() > 0) && (aValue.length() > 0)) {
+
+                if (!isAlphaNumeric(aKey)) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                        "The parameter key '"
+                            + aKey
+                            + "' may only consist of alpha numeric ASCII characters.");
+                }
+
+                if (!isValidString(aValue, VALUE_CHAR_SET + "%")) {
+                    throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                        "The parameter value for key '" + aKey + "' contains illegal characters.");
+                }
+
+                params.put(aKey, decodeUTF8(aValue));
+            }
+
+            if ((pos >= paramString.length()) || (c != ','))
+                break;
+
+        }
+
+        return params;
+    }
+
+    private static UnoUrlPart parseUnoUrlPart(String thePart)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+        String partName;
+        String theParamPart;
+        int index = thePart.indexOf(',');
+        if (index != -1) {
+            partName = thePart.substring(0, index).trim();
+            theParamPart = thePart.substring(index + 1).trim();
+        } else {
+            partName = thePart;
+            theParamPart = "";
+        }
+
+        if (!isAlphaNumeric(partName)) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                "The part name '"
+                    + partName
+                    + "' may only consist of alpha numeric ASCII characters.");
+        }
+
+        HashMap<String,String> params = buildParamHashMap(theParamPart);
+
+        return new UnoUrlPart(theParamPart, partName, params);
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isAlphaNumeric(String s) {
+        return isValidString(s, null);
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isValidString(String identifier, String validCharSet) {
+
+        int len = identifier.length();
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+
+            int ch = identifier.charAt(i);
+
+            boolean isValidChar =
+                ('A' <= ch && ch <= 'Z')
+                    || ('a' <= ch && ch <= 'z')
+                    || ('0' <= ch && ch <= '9');
+
+            if (!isValidChar && (validCharSet != null)) {
+                isValidChar = (validCharSet.indexOf(ch) != -1);
+            }
+
+            if (!isValidChar)
+                return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Parses the given Uno Url and returns
+     * an in memory object representation.
+     *
+     * @param unoUrl The given uno URl as string.
+     * @return Object representation of class UnoUrl.
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if Url cannot be parsed.
+     */
+    public static UnoUrl parseUnoUrl(String unoUrl)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+
+        String url = unoUrl;
+
+        int index = url.indexOf(':');
+        if (index != -1) {
+            String unoStr = url.substring(0, index).trim();
+            if (!"uno".equals(unoStr)) {
+                throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "Uno Urls must start with 'uno:'. " + FORMAT_ERROR);
+            }
+        }
+
+        url = url.substring(index + 1).trim();
+
+        index = url.indexOf(';');
+        if (index == -1) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException("'"+unoUrl+"' is an invalid Uno Url. " + FORMAT_ERROR);
+        }
+
+        String connection = url.substring(0, index).trim();
+        url = url.substring(index + 1).trim();
+
+        UnoUrlPart connectionPart = parseUnoUrlPart(connection);
+
+        index = url.indexOf(';');
+        if (index == -1) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException("'"+unoUrl+"' is an invalid Uno Url. " + FORMAT_ERROR);
+        }
+
+        String protocol = url.substring(0, index).trim();
+        url = url.substring(index + 1).trim();
+
+        UnoUrlPart protocolPart = parseUnoUrlPart(protocol);
+
+        String rootOid = url.trim();
+        if (!isValidString(rootOid, OID_CHAR_SET)) {
+            throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+                "Root OID '"+ rootOid + "' contains illegal characters.");
+        }
+
+        return new UnoUrl(connectionPart, protocolPart, rootOid);
+
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/WeakAdapter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/WeakAdapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..67e01ac32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/WeakAdapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XAdapter;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XReference;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+
+/** An XAdapter implementation that holds a weak reference (java.lang.ref.WeakReference)
+ *  to an object. Clients can register listener (com.sun.star.lang.XReference) which
+ *  are notified when the object (the one which is kept weak) is being finalized. That
+ *  is, that object is being destroyed because there are not any hard references
+ *  to it.
+ */
+public class WeakAdapter implements XAdapter
+{
+    // references the XWeak implementation
+    private final WeakReference<Object> m_weakRef;
+    // contains XReference objects registered by addReference
+    private final List<XReference> m_xreferenceList;
+
+    /**
+     *@param component the object that is to be held weak
+     */
+    public WeakAdapter(Object component)
+    {
+        m_weakRef= new WeakReference<Object>(component);
+        m_xreferenceList= Collections.synchronizedList( new LinkedList<XReference>());
+    }
+
+    /** Called by the XWeak implementation (WeakBase) when it is being finalized.
+     *  It is only being called once.
+     *  The registered XReference listeners are notified. On notification they are
+     *  to unregister themselves. The notification is thread-safe. However, it is possible
+     *  to add a listener during the notification process, which will never receive a
+     *  notification. To prevent this, one would have to synchronize this method with
+     *  the addReference method. But this can result in deadlocks in a multi-threaded
+     *  environment.
+     */
+    void referentDying()
+    {
+        //synchronized call
+        XReference[] references= m_xreferenceList.toArray(new XReference[m_xreferenceList.size()]);
+        for (int i= references.length; i > 0; i--)
+        {
+            references[i-1].dispose();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Method  of com.sun.star.uno.XAdapter. It is called to obtain a hard reference
+     *  to the object which is kept weak by this instance.
+     *  @return hard reference to the object
+     */
+    public Object queryAdapted()
+    {
+        return m_weakRef.get();
+    }
+
+    /** Method of com.sun.star.uno.XAdapter. Called by clients to register listener which
+     * are notified when the weak object is dying.
+     *@param xReference a listener
+     */
+    public void removeReference(XReference xReference)
+    {
+        m_xreferenceList.remove(xReference);
+    }
+
+    /** Method of com.sun.star.uno.XAdapter. Called by clients to unregister listeners.
+     *@param xReference listener
+     */
+    public void addReference(XReference xReference)
+    {
+        m_xreferenceList.add(xReference);
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/WeakBase.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/WeakBase.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac175d3a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/helper/WeakBase.java
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.helper;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XWeak;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XAdapter;
+import com.sun.star.lang.XTypeProvider;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+
+/** This class can be used as the base class for UNO components. It implements the capability
+ *  to be kept weak (com.sun.star.uno.XWeak) and it implements com.sun.star.lang.XTypeProvider
+ *  which is necessary for using the component with StarBasic.
+ */
+public class WeakBase implements XWeak, XTypeProvider
+{
+    // Contains all WeakAdapter which have been created in this class
+    // They have to be notified when this object dies
+    private WeakAdapter m_adapter;
+
+    protected static Map<Class<?>,Type[]> _mapTypes = new HashMap<Class<?>,Type[]>();
+
+    /** Method of XWeak. The returned XAdapter implementation can be used to keep
+     * a weak reference to this object.
+     * @return a com.sun.star.uno.XAdapter implementation.
+     */
+    synchronized public XAdapter queryAdapter()
+    {
+        if (m_adapter == null)
+            m_adapter= new WeakAdapter(this);
+        return m_adapter;
+    }
+
+    /** Override of Object.finalize. When there are no references to this object anymore
+     * then the garbage collector calls this method. Thereby causing the adapter object
+     * to be notified. The adapter, in turn, notifies all listeners (com.sun.star.uno.XReference)
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected void finalize() throws java.lang.Throwable
+    {
+        if (m_adapter != null)
+            m_adapter.referentDying();
+        super.finalize();
+    }
+
+    /** Method of XTypeProvider. It returns an array of Type objects which represent
+     * all implemented UNO interfaces of this object.
+     * @return Type objects of all implemented interfaces.
+     */
+    public Type[] getTypes()
+    {
+        Type[] arTypes= _mapTypes.get( getClass());
+        if (arTypes == null)
+        {
+            ArrayList<Type> vec= new ArrayList<Type>();
+            Class currentClass= getClass();
+            do
+            {
+                Class interfaces[]= currentClass.getInterfaces();
+                for(int i = 0; i < interfaces.length; ++ i)
+                {
+                    // Test if it is a UNO interface
+                    if (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface.class.isAssignableFrom(interfaces[i]))
+                        vec.add(new Type(interfaces[i]));
+                }
+                // get the superclass the currentClass inherits from
+                currentClass= currentClass.getSuperclass();
+            } while (currentClass != null);
+
+            Type types[]= vec.toArray(new Type[vec.size()]);
+            _mapTypes.put(getClass(), types);
+            arTypes= types;
+        }
+        return arTypes;
+    }
+
+    /** Obsolete method of XTypeProvider.
+     */
+    public byte[] getImplementationId()
+    {
+        return new byte[0];
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Cache.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Cache.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26c2d449d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Cache.java
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols.urp;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+/**
+ * An LRU cache for arbitrary objects.
+ *
+ * <p>This class is not synchronized, as any necessary synchronization will already
+ * take place in the client.</p>
+ */
+final class Cache {
+    /**
+     * Create a cache.
+     *
+     * @param size the maximum cache size, must be between 0, inclusive, and
+     * NOT_CACHED, exclusive.
+     */
+    public Cache(int size) {
+        maxSize = size;
+    }
+
+    public int add(boolean[] found, Object content) {
+        Entry e = map.get(content);
+        found[0] = e != null;
+        if (e == null) {
+            if (map.size() < maxSize) {
+                // There is still room for a new entry at the front:
+                e = new Entry(content, map.size(), null, first);
+                if (first == null) {
+                    last = e;
+                } else {
+                    first.prev = e;
+                }
+                first = e;
+            } else if (last != null) {
+                // Take last entry out and recycle as new front:
+                map.remove(last.content);
+                e = last;
+                e.content = content;
+                if (first != last) {
+                    // Reached only if maxSize > 1:
+                    last = last.prev;
+                    last.next = null;
+                    e.prev = null;
+                    e.next = first;
+                    first.prev = e;
+                    first = e;
+                }
+            } else {
+                // Reached iff maxSize == 0:
+                return NOT_CACHED;
+            }
+            map.put(content, e);
+        } else if (e != first) {
+            // Move to front (reached only if maxSize > 1):
+            e.prev.next = e.next;
+            if (e.next == null) {
+                last = e.prev;
+            } else {
+                e.next.prev = e.prev;
+            }
+            e.prev = null;
+            e.next = first;
+            first.prev = e;
+            first = e;
+        }
+        return e.index;
+    }
+
+    public static final int NOT_CACHED = 0xFFFF;
+
+    private static final class Entry {
+        public Entry(Object content, int index, Entry prev, Entry next) {
+            this.content = content;
+            this.index = index;
+            this.prev = prev;
+            this.next = next;
+        }
+
+        public Object content;
+        public int index;
+        public Entry prev;
+        public Entry next;
+    }
+
+    // first/last form a list of 0 to maxSize entries, most recently used first;
+    // map contains the same entries; each entry has a unique index in the range
+    // 0 to maxSize - 1
+    private final int maxSize;
+    private final HashMap<Object, Entry> map = new HashMap<Object, Entry>(); // from Object to Entry
+    private Entry first = null;
+    private Entry last = null;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Marshal.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Marshal.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..106a8736c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Marshal.java
@@ -0,0 +1,355 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols.urp;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.DataOutput;
+import java.io.DataOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.FieldDescription;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Any;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Enum;
+import com.sun.star.uno.IBridge;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XInterface;
+
+final class Marshal {
+    public Marshal(IBridge bridge, short cacheSize) {
+        this.bridge = bridge;
+        objectIdCache = new Cache(cacheSize);
+        threadIdCache = new Cache(cacheSize);
+        typeCache = new Cache(cacheSize);
+    }
+
+    public void write8Bit(int value) {
+        try {
+            output.writeByte(value);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void write16Bit(int value) {
+        try {
+            output.writeShort(value);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void writeObjectId(String objectId) {
+        try {
+            if (objectId == null) {
+                writeStringValue(null);
+                write16Bit(0xFFFF);
+            } else {
+                boolean[] found = new boolean[1];
+                int index = objectIdCache.add(found, objectId);
+                writeStringValue(found[0] ? null : objectId);
+                write16Bit(index);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void writeInterface(XInterface object, Type type) {
+        writeObjectId((String) bridge.mapInterfaceTo(object, type));
+    }
+
+    public void writeThreadId(ThreadId threadId) {
+        try {
+            byte[] data = threadId.getBytes();
+            boolean[] found = new boolean[1];
+            int index = threadIdCache.add(found, data);
+            if (found[0]) {
+                writeCompressedNumber(0);
+            } else {
+                writeCompressedNumber(data.length);
+                writeBytes(data);
+            }
+            write16Bit(index);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void writeType(TypeDescription type) {
+        try {
+            TypeClass typeClass = type.getTypeClass();
+            if (TypeDescription.isTypeClassSimple(typeClass)) {
+                write8Bit(typeClass.getValue());
+            } else {
+                boolean[] found = new boolean[1];
+                int index = typeCache.add(found, type.getTypeName());
+                write8Bit(typeClass.getValue() | (found[0] ? 0 : 0x80));
+                write16Bit(index);
+                if (!found[0]) {
+                    writeStringValue(type.getTypeName());
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void writeValue(TypeDescription type, Object value) {
+        try {
+            switch(type.getTypeClass().getValue()) {
+            case TypeClass.VOID_value:
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+                writeBooleanValue((Boolean) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+                writeByteValue((Byte) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                writeShortValue((Short) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+                writeLongValue((Integer) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+                writeHyperValue((Long) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+                writeFloatValue((Float) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+                writeDoubleValue((Double) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+                writeCharValue((Character) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+                writeStringValue((String) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+                writeTypeValue((Type) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.ANY_value:
+                writeAnyValue(value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+                writeSequenceValue(type, value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+                writeEnumValue(type, (Enum) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+                writeStructValue(type, value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value:
+                writeExceptionValue(type, (Exception) value);
+                break;
+
+            case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+                writeInterfaceValue(type, (XInterface) value);
+                break;
+
+            default:
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Bad type descriptor " + type);
+            }
+        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public byte[] reset() {
+        byte[] data = buffer.toByteArray();
+        buffer.reset();
+        return data;
+    }
+
+    private void writeBooleanValue(Boolean value) throws IOException {
+        output.writeBoolean(value != null && value.booleanValue());
+    }
+
+    private void writeByteValue(Byte value) {
+        write8Bit(value == null ? 0 : value.byteValue());
+    }
+
+    private void writeShortValue(Short value) {
+        write16Bit(value == null ? 0 : value.shortValue());
+    }
+
+    private void writeLongValue(Integer value) throws IOException {
+        write32Bit(value == null ? 0 : value.intValue());
+    }
+
+    private void writeHyperValue(Long value) throws IOException {
+        output.writeLong(value == null ? 0 : value.longValue());
+    }
+
+    private void writeFloatValue(Float value) throws IOException {
+        output.writeFloat(value == null ? 0 : value.floatValue());
+    }
+
+    private void writeDoubleValue(Double value) throws IOException {
+        output.writeDouble(value == null ? 0 : value.doubleValue());
+    }
+
+    private void writeCharValue(Character value) throws IOException {
+        output.writeChar(value == null ? 0 : value.charValue());
+    }
+
+    private void writeStringValue(String value) throws IOException {
+        if (value == null) {
+            writeCompressedNumber(0);
+        } else {
+            byte[] data = value.getBytes("UTF8");
+            writeCompressedNumber(data.length);
+            writeBytes(data);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void writeTypeValue(Type value) throws ClassNotFoundException {
+        writeType(
+            TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(
+                value == null ? Type.VOID : value));
+    }
+
+    private void writeAnyValue(Object value) throws ClassNotFoundException {
+        TypeDescription type;
+        if (value == null || value instanceof XInterface) {
+            type = TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(XInterface.class);
+        } else if (value instanceof Any) {
+            Any any = (Any) value;
+            type = TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(any.getType());
+            value = any.getObject();
+        } else if (value.getClass() == Object.class) {
+            // Avoid StackOverflowError:
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "Object instance does not represent UNO value");
+        } else {
+            type = TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(value.getClass());
+        }
+        writeType(type);
+        writeValue(type, value);
+    }
+
+    private void writeSequenceValue(TypeDescription type, Object value) throws IOException {
+        if (value == null) {
+            writeCompressedNumber(0);
+        } else {
+            TypeDescription ctype = type.getComponentType();
+            if (ctype.getTypeClass() == TypeClass.BYTE) {
+                byte[] data = (byte[]) value;
+                writeCompressedNumber(data.length);
+                writeBytes(data);
+            } else {
+                int len = Array.getLength(value);
+                writeCompressedNumber(len);
+                for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
+                    writeValue(ctype, Array.get(value, i));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void writeEnumValue(TypeDescription type, Enum value) throws IllegalAccessException, IOException, InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException {
+        int n;
+        if (value == null) {
+            n = ((Enum)
+                 (type.getZClass().getMethod("getDefault", (Class[]) null).
+                  invoke(null, (Object[]) null))).
+                getValue();
+        } else {
+            n = value.getValue();
+        }
+        write32Bit(n);
+    }
+
+    private void writeStructValue(TypeDescription type, Object value) throws IllegalAccessException {
+        FieldDescription[] fields = type.getFieldDescriptions();
+        for (int i = 0; i < fields.length; ++i) {
+            writeValue(
+                fields[i].getTypeDescription(),
+                value == null ? null : fields[i].getField().get(value));
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void writeExceptionValue(TypeDescription type, Exception value) throws IllegalAccessException, IOException {
+        writeStringValue(value == null ? null : value.getMessage());
+        writeStructValue(type, value);
+    }
+
+    private void writeInterfaceValue(TypeDescription type, XInterface value) {
+        writeInterface(value, new Type(type));
+    }
+
+    private void write32Bit(int value) throws IOException {
+        output.writeInt(value);
+    }
+
+    private void writeCompressedNumber(int number) throws IOException {
+        if (number >= 0 && number < 0xFF) {
+            write8Bit(number);
+        } else {
+            write8Bit(0xFF);
+            write32Bit(number);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void writeBytes(byte[] data) throws IOException {
+        output.write(data);
+    }
+
+    private final ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+    private final DataOutput output = new DataOutputStream(buffer);
+    private final IBridge bridge;
+    private final Cache objectIdCache;
+    private final Cache threadIdCache;
+    private final Cache typeCache;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/PendingRequests.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/PendingRequests.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..928cdcd63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/PendingRequests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols.urp;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Stack;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.MethodDescription;
+
+final class PendingRequests {
+
+    public synchronized void push(ThreadId tid, Item item) {
+        Stack<Item> s = map.get(tid);
+        if (s == null) {
+            s = new Stack<Item>();
+            map.put(tid, s);
+        }
+        s.push(item);
+    }
+
+    public synchronized Item pop(ThreadId tid) {
+        Stack<Item> s = map.get(tid);
+        Item i = s.pop();
+        if (s.empty()) {
+            map.remove(tid);
+        }
+        return i;
+    }
+
+    public static final class Item {
+        public Item(
+            boolean internal, MethodDescription function, Object[] arguments)
+        {
+            this.internal = internal;
+            this.function = function;
+            this.arguments = arguments;
+        }
+
+        public final boolean internal;
+        public final MethodDescription function;
+        public final Object[] arguments;
+    }
+
+    private final HashMap<ThreadId, Stack<Item>> map = new HashMap<ThreadId, Stack<Item>>(); // from ThreadId to Stack of Item
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Unmarshal.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Unmarshal.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c16d19291
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/Unmarshal.java
@@ -0,0 +1,476 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols.urp;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.DataInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Any;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Enum;
+import com.sun.star.uno.IBridge;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XInterface;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.FieldDescription;
+
+final class Unmarshal {
+    public Unmarshal(IBridge bridge, int cacheSize) {
+        this.bridge = bridge;
+        objectIdCache = new String[cacheSize];
+        threadIdCache = new ThreadId[cacheSize];
+        typeCache = new TypeDescription[cacheSize];
+        reset(new byte[0]);
+    }
+
+    public int read8Bit() {
+        try {
+            return input.readUnsignedByte();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public int read16Bit() {
+        try {
+            return input.readUnsignedShort();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public String readObjectId() {
+        try {
+            String id = readStringValue();
+            int index = read16Bit();
+            if (index == 0xFFFF) {
+                if (id.length() == 0) {
+                    id = null;
+                }
+            } else {
+                if (id.length() == 0) {
+                    id = objectIdCache[index];
+                } else {
+                    objectIdCache[index] = id;
+                }
+            }
+            return id;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public Object readInterface(Type type) {
+        String id = readObjectId();
+        return id == null ? null : bridge.mapInterfaceFrom(id, type);
+    }
+
+    public ThreadId readThreadId() {
+        try {
+            int len = readCompressedNumber();
+            byte[] data  ;
+            ThreadId id = null;
+            if (len != 0) {
+                data = new byte[len];
+                readBytes(data);
+                id = new ThreadId(data);
+            }
+            int index = read16Bit();
+            if (index != 0xFFFF) {
+                if (len == 0) {
+                    id = threadIdCache[index];
+                } else {
+                    threadIdCache[index] = id;
+                }
+            }
+            return id;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public TypeDescription readType() {
+        int b = read8Bit();
+        TypeClass typeClass = TypeClass.fromInt(b & 0x7F);
+        if (typeClass == null) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(
+                "Reading TYPE with bad type class " + (b & 0x7F));
+        }
+        if (TypeDescription.isTypeClassSimple(typeClass)) {
+            if ((b & 0x80) != 0) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(
+                    "Reading TYPE with bad type class/cache flag " + b);
+            }
+            return TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(typeClass);
+        } else {
+            int index = read16Bit();
+            TypeDescription type;
+            if ((b & 0x80) == 0) {
+                if (index >= typeCache.length) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(
+                        "Reading TYPE with bad cache index " + index);
+                }
+                type = typeCache[index];
+                if (type == null) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(
+                        "Reading TYPE with empty cache index " + index);
+                }
+            } else {
+                try {
+                    type = TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(
+                        readStringValue());
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+                if (index != 0xFFFF) {
+                    if (index >= typeCache.length) {
+                        throw new RuntimeException(
+                            "Reading TYPE with bad cache index " + index);
+                    }
+                    typeCache[index] = type;
+                }
+            }
+            return type;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public Object readValue(TypeDescription type) {
+        try {
+            switch (type.getTypeClass().getValue()) {
+            case TypeClass.VOID_value:
+                return null;
+
+            case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+                return readBooleanValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+                return readByteValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                return readShortValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+                return readLongValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+                return readHyperValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+                return readFloatValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+                return readDoubleValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+                return readCharValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+                return readStringValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+                return readTypeValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.ANY_value:
+                return readAnyValue();
+
+            case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+                return readSequenceValue(type);
+
+            case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+                return readEnumValue(type);
+
+            case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+                return readStructValue(type);
+
+            case TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value:
+                return readExceptionValue(type);
+
+            case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+                return readInterfaceValue(type);
+
+            default:
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Bad type descriptor " + type);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public boolean hasMore() {
+        try {
+            return input.available() > 0;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void reset(byte[] data) {
+        input = new DataInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(data));
+    }
+
+    private Boolean readBooleanValue() throws IOException {
+       return input.readBoolean() ? Boolean.TRUE : Boolean.FALSE;
+    }
+
+    private Byte readByteValue() throws IOException {
+       return Byte.valueOf(input.readByte());
+    }
+
+    private Short readShortValue() throws IOException {
+        return Short.valueOf(input.readShort());
+    }
+
+    private Integer readLongValue() throws IOException {
+        return Integer.valueOf(input.readInt());
+    }
+
+    private Long readHyperValue() throws IOException {
+        return Long.valueOf(input.readLong());
+    }
+
+    private Float readFloatValue() throws IOException {
+        return new Float(input.readFloat());
+    }
+
+    private Double readDoubleValue() throws IOException {
+        return new Double(input.readDouble());
+    }
+
+    private Character readCharValue() throws IOException {
+        return new Character(input.readChar());
+    }
+
+    private String readStringValue() throws IOException {
+        int len = readCompressedNumber();
+        byte[] data = new byte[len];
+        readBytes(data);
+        try {
+            return new String(data, "UTF8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Type readTypeValue() {
+        return new Type(readType());
+    }
+
+    private Object readAnyValue() throws IOException {
+        TypeDescription type = readType();
+        switch (type.getTypeClass().getValue()) {
+        case TypeClass.VOID_value:
+            return Any.VOID;
+
+        case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+            return readBooleanValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+            return readByteValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+            return readShortValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+            return new Any(Type.UNSIGNED_SHORT, readShortValue());
+
+        case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+            return readLongValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+            return new Any(Type.UNSIGNED_LONG, readLongValue());
+
+        case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+            return readHyperValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+            return new Any(Type.UNSIGNED_HYPER, readHyperValue());
+
+        case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+            return readFloatValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+            return readDoubleValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+            return readCharValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+            return readStringValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+            return readTypeValue();
+
+        case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+            {
+                Object value = readSequenceValue(type);
+                TypeDescription ctype = type.getComponentType();
+                while (ctype.getTypeClass() == TypeClass.SEQUENCE) {
+                    ctype = ctype.getComponentType();
+                }
+                switch (ctype.getTypeClass().getValue()) {
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+                    return new Any(new Type(type), value);
+
+                case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+                    if (ctype.hasTypeArguments()) {
+                        return new Any(new Type(type), value);
+                    }
+                default:
+                    return value;
+                }
+            }
+
+        case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+            return readEnumValue(type);
+
+        case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+            {
+                Object value = readStructValue(type);
+                return type.hasTypeArguments()
+                    ? new Any(new Type(type), value) : value;
+            }
+
+        case TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value:
+            return readExceptionValue(type);
+
+        case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+            {
+                Object value = readInterfaceValue(type);
+                return type.getZClass() == XInterface.class
+                    ? value : new Any(new Type(type), value);
+            }
+
+        default:
+            throw new RuntimeException(
+                "Reading ANY with bad type " + type.getTypeClass());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Object readSequenceValue(TypeDescription type) throws IOException {
+        int len = readCompressedNumber();
+        TypeDescription ctype = type.getComponentType();
+        if (ctype.getTypeClass() == TypeClass.BYTE) {
+            byte[] data = new byte[len];
+            readBytes(data);
+            return data;
+        } else {
+            Object value = Array.newInstance(
+                ctype.getTypeClass() == TypeClass.ANY
+                ? Object.class : ctype.getZClass(), len);
+            for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
+                Array.set(value, i, readValue(ctype));
+            }
+            return value;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Enum readEnumValue(TypeDescription type) throws IOException {
+        try {
+            return (Enum)
+                type.getZClass().getMethod(
+                    "fromInt", new Class[] { int.class }).
+                invoke(null, new Object[] { readLongValue() });
+        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Object readStructValue(TypeDescription type) {
+        Object value;
+        try {
+            value = type.getZClass().newInstance();
+        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (InstantiationException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        readFields(type, value);
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    private Exception readExceptionValue(TypeDescription type) throws IOException {
+        Exception value;
+        try {
+            value = (Exception)
+                type.getZClass().getConstructor(new Class[] { String.class }).
+                newInstance(new Object[] { readStringValue() });
+        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (InstantiationException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        readFields(type, value);
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    private Object readInterfaceValue(TypeDescription type) {
+        return readInterface(new Type(type));
+    }
+
+    private int readCompressedNumber() throws IOException {
+        int number = read8Bit();
+        return number < 0xFF ? number : input.readInt();
+    }
+
+    private void readBytes(byte[] data) throws IOException {
+        input.readFully(data);
+    }
+
+    private void readFields(TypeDescription type, Object value) {
+        FieldDescription[] fields = type.getFieldDescriptions();
+        for (int i = 0; i < fields.length; ++i) {
+            try {
+                fields[i].getField().set(
+                    value,
+                    readValue(
+                        fields[i].getTypeDescription()));
+            } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final IBridge bridge;
+    private final String[] objectIdCache;
+    private final ThreadId[] threadIdCache;
+    private final TypeDescription[] typeCache;
+    private DataInputStream input;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/UrpMessage.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/UrpMessage.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..34cdf7073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/UrpMessage.java
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols.urp;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Message;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.MethodDescription;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XCurrentContext;
+
+final class UrpMessage extends Message {
+    public UrpMessage(
+        ThreadId threadId, boolean request, String objectId,
+        TypeDescription type, MethodDescription method, boolean synchronous,
+        XCurrentContext currentContext, boolean abnormalTermination,
+        Object result, Object[] arguments, boolean internal)
+    {
+        super(
+            threadId, request, objectId, type, method, synchronous,
+            currentContext, abnormalTermination, result, arguments);
+        this.internal = internal;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isInternal() {
+        return internal;
+    }
+
+    private final boolean internal;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/urp.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/urp.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ce9d35be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/protocols/urp/urp.java
@@ -0,0 +1,760 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.protocols.urp;
+
+import com.sun.star.bridge.InvalidProtocolChangeException;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.ProtocolProperty;
+import com.sun.star.bridge.XProtocolProperties;
+import com.sun.star.lang.DisposedException;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.IProtocol;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Message;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.ThreadId;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.MethodDescription;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Any;
+import com.sun.star.uno.IBridge;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass;
+import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
+import com.sun.star.uno.XCurrentContext;
+import java.io.DataInput;
+import java.io.DataInputStream;
+import java.io.DataOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Random;
+import java.util.StringTokenizer;
+
+/**
+ * This class internally relies on the availability of Java UNO type information
+ * for the interface type <code>com.sun.star.bridge.XProtocolProperties</code>,
+ * even though URP itself does not rely on that type.
+ */
+public final class urp implements IProtocol {
+    public urp(
+        IBridge bridge, String attributes, InputStream input,
+        OutputStream output)
+    {
+        this.input = new DataInputStream(input);
+        this.output = new DataOutputStream(output);
+        marshal = new Marshal(bridge, CACHE_SIZE);
+        unmarshal = new Unmarshal(bridge, CACHE_SIZE);
+        forceSynchronous = parseAttributes(attributes);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see IProtocol#init
+     */
+    public void init() throws IOException {
+        synchronized (monitor) {
+            if (state == STATE_INITIAL0) {
+                sendRequestChange();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see IProtocol#terminate
+     */
+    public void terminate() {
+        synchronized (monitor) {
+            state = STATE_TERMINATED;
+            initialized = true;
+            monitor.notifyAll();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see IProtocol#readMessage
+     */
+    public Message readMessage() throws IOException {
+        for (;;) {
+            if (!unmarshal.hasMore()) {
+                unmarshal.reset(readBlock());
+                if (!unmarshal.hasMore()) {
+                    throw new IOException("closeConnection message received");
+                }
+            }
+            UrpMessage msg;
+            int header = unmarshal.read8Bit();
+            if ((header & HEADER_LONGHEADER) != 0) {
+                if ((header & HEADER_REQUEST) != 0) {
+                    msg = readLongRequest(header);
+                } else {
+                    msg = readReply(header);
+                }
+            } else {
+                msg = readShortRequest(header);
+            }
+            if (msg.isInternal()) {
+                handleInternalMessage(msg);
+            } else {
+                return msg;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see IProtocol#writeRequest
+     */
+    public boolean writeRequest(
+        String oid, TypeDescription type, String function, ThreadId tid,
+        Object[] arguments)
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        if (oid.equals(PROPERTIES_OID)) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("illegal OID " + oid);
+        }
+        synchronized (monitor) {
+            while (!initialized) {
+                try {
+                    monitor.wait();
+                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                    Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+            }
+            if (state == STATE_TERMINATED) {
+                throw new DisposedException();
+            }
+            return writeRequest(false, oid, type, function, tid, arguments);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @see IProtocol#writeReply
+     */
+    public void writeReply(boolean exception, ThreadId tid, Object result)
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        synchronized (output) {
+            writeQueuedReleases();
+            int header = HEADER_LONGHEADER;
+            PendingRequests.Item pending = pendingIn.pop(tid);
+            TypeDescription resultType;
+            TypeDescription[] argTypes;
+            Object[] args;
+            if (exception) {
+                header |= HEADER_EXCEPTION;
+                resultType = TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(TypeClass.ANY);
+                argTypes = null;
+                args = null;
+            } else {
+                resultType = pending.function.getReturnSignature();
+                argTypes = pending.function.getOutSignature();
+                args = pending.arguments;
+            }
+            if (!tid.equals(outL1Tid)) {
+                header |= HEADER_NEWTID;
+                outL1Tid = tid;
+            } else {
+                tid = null;
+            }
+            marshal.write8Bit(header);
+            if (tid != null) {
+                marshal.writeThreadId(tid);
+            }
+            marshal.writeValue(resultType, result);
+            if (argTypes != null) {
+                for (int i = 0; i < argTypes.length; ++i) {
+                    if (argTypes[i] != null) {
+                        marshal.writeValue(
+                            argTypes[i].getComponentType(),
+                            Array.get(args[i], 0));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            writeBlock(true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void sendRequestChange() throws IOException {
+        if (propertiesTid == null) {
+            propertiesTid = ThreadId.createFresh();
+        }
+        random = randomGenerator.nextInt();
+        writeRequest(
+            true, PROPERTIES_OID,
+            TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(XProtocolProperties.class),
+            PROPERTIES_FUN_REQUEST_CHANGE, propertiesTid,
+            new Object[] { Integer.valueOf(random) });
+        state = STATE_REQUESTED;
+    }
+
+    private void handleInternalMessage(Message message) throws IOException {
+        if (message.isRequest()) {
+            String t = message.getType().getTypeName();
+            if (!t.equals("com.sun.star.bridge.XProtocolProperties")) {
+                throw new IOException(
+                    "read URP protocol properties request with unsupported"
+                    + " type " + t);
+            }
+            int fid = message.getMethod().getIndex();
+            switch (fid) {
+            case PROPERTIES_FID_REQUEST_CHANGE:
+                checkSynchronousPropertyRequest(message);
+                synchronized (monitor) {
+                    switch (state) {
+                    case STATE_INITIAL0:
+                    case STATE_INITIAL:
+                        writeReply(
+                            false, message.getThreadId(), Integer.valueOf(1));
+                        state = STATE_WAIT;
+                        break;
+                    case STATE_REQUESTED:
+                        int n
+                            = ((Integer) message.getArguments()[0]).intValue();
+                        if (random < n) {
+                            writeReply(
+                                false, message.getThreadId(), Integer.valueOf(1));
+                            state = STATE_WAIT;
+                        } else if (random == n) {
+                            writeReply(
+                                false, message.getThreadId(), Integer.valueOf(-1));
+                            state = STATE_INITIAL;
+                            sendRequestChange();
+                        } else {
+                            writeReply(
+                                false, message.getThreadId(), Integer.valueOf(0));
+                        }
+                        break;
+                    default:
+                        writeReply(
+                            true, message.getThreadId(),
+                            new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(
+                                "read URP protocol properties requestChange"
+                                + " request in illegal state"));
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+                break;
+            case PROPERTIES_FID_COMMIT_CHANGE:
+                checkSynchronousPropertyRequest(message);
+                synchronized (monitor) {
+                    if (state == STATE_WAIT) {
+                        ProtocolProperty[] p = (ProtocolProperty[])
+                            message.getArguments()[0];
+                        boolean ok = true;
+                        boolean cc = false;
+                        int i = 0;
+                        for (; i < p.length; ++i) {
+                            if (p[i].Name.equals(PROPERTY_CURRENT_CONTEXT)) {
+                                cc = true;
+                            } else {
+                                ok = false;
+                                break;
+                            }
+                        }
+                        if (ok) {
+                            writeReply(false, message.getThreadId(), null);
+                        } else {
+                            writeReply(
+                                true, message.getThreadId(),
+                                new InvalidProtocolChangeException(
+                                    "", null, p[i], 1));
+                        }
+                        state = STATE_INITIAL;
+                        if (!initialized) {
+                            if (cc) {
+                                currentContext = true;
+                                initialized = true;
+                                monitor.notifyAll();
+                            } else {
+                                sendRequestChange();
+                            }
+                        }
+                    } else {
+                        writeReply(
+                            true, message.getThreadId(),
+                            new com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException(
+                                "read URP protocol properties commitChange"
+                                + " request in illegal state"));
+                    }
+                }
+                break;
+            default:
+                throw new IOException(
+                    "read URP protocol properties request with unsupported"
+                    + " function ID " + fid);
+            }
+        } else {
+            synchronized (monitor) {
+                if (state == STATE_COMMITTED) {
+                    // commitChange reply:
+                    if (!message.isAbnormalTermination()) {
+                        currentContext = true;
+                    }
+                    state = STATE_INITIAL;
+                    initialized = true;
+                    monitor.notifyAll();
+                } else {
+                    // requestChange reply:
+                    if (message.isAbnormalTermination()) {
+                        // remote side probably does not support negotiation:
+                        state = STATE_INITIAL;
+                        initialized = true;
+                        monitor.notifyAll();
+                    } else {
+                        int n = ((Integer) message.getResult()).intValue();
+                        switch (n) {
+                        case -1:
+                        case 0:
+                            break;
+                        case 1:
+                            writeRequest(
+                                true, PROPERTIES_OID,
+                                TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(
+                                    XProtocolProperties.class),
+                                PROPERTIES_FUN_COMMIT_CHANGE, propertiesTid,
+                                new Object[] {
+                                    new ProtocolProperty[] {
+                                        new ProtocolProperty(
+                                            PROPERTY_CURRENT_CONTEXT,
+                                            Any.VOID) } });
+                            state = STATE_COMMITTED;
+                            break;
+                        default:
+                            throw new IOException(
+                                "read URP protocol properties "
+                                + PROPERTIES_FUN_REQUEST_CHANGE
+                                + " reply with illegal return value " + n);
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void checkSynchronousPropertyRequest(Message message)
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        if (!message.isSynchronous()) {
+            throw new IOException(
+                "read URP protocol properties request for synchronous function"
+                + " marked as not SYNCHRONOUS");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private byte[] readBlock() throws IOException {
+        int size = input.readInt();
+        input.readInt(); // ignore count
+        byte[] bytes = new byte[size];
+        input.readFully(bytes);
+        return bytes;
+    }
+
+    private UrpMessage readLongRequest(int header) throws IOException {
+        boolean sync = false;
+        if ((header & HEADER_MOREFLAGS) != 0) {
+            if (unmarshal.read8Bit() != (HEADER_MUSTREPLY | HEADER_SYNCHRONOUS))
+            {
+                throw new IOException(
+                    "read URP request with bad MUSTREPLY/SYNCHRONOUS byte");
+            }
+            sync = true;
+        }
+        int funId = (header & HEADER_FUNCTIONID16) != 0
+            ? unmarshal.read16Bit() : unmarshal.read8Bit();
+        if ((header & HEADER_NEWTYPE) != 0) {
+            inL1Type = unmarshal.readType();
+            if (inL1Type.getTypeClass() != TypeClass.INTERFACE) {
+                throw new IOException(
+                    "read URP request with non-interface type " + inL1Type);
+            }
+        }
+        if ((header & HEADER_NEWOID) != 0) {
+            inL1Oid = unmarshal.readObjectId();
+        }
+        if ((header & HEADER_NEWTID) != 0) {
+            inL1Tid = unmarshal.readThreadId();
+        }
+        return readRequest(funId, sync);
+    }
+
+    private UrpMessage readShortRequest(int header) throws IOException {
+        int funId = (header & HEADER_FUNCTIONID14) != 0
+            ? ((header & HEADER_FUNCTIONID) << 8) | unmarshal.read8Bit()
+            : header & HEADER_FUNCTIONID;
+        return readRequest(funId, false);
+    }
+
+    private UrpMessage readRequest(int functionId, boolean forcedSynchronous)
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        boolean internal = PROPERTIES_OID.equals(inL1Oid);
+            // inL1Oid may be null in XInstanceProvider.getInstance("")
+        XCurrentContext cc =
+            (currentContext && !internal
+             && functionId != MethodDescription.ID_RELEASE)
+            ? (XCurrentContext) unmarshal.readInterface(
+                new Type(XCurrentContext.class))
+            : null;
+        MethodDescription desc = inL1Type.getMethodDescription(functionId);
+        if (desc == null) {
+            throw new IOException(
+                "read URP request with unsupported function ID " + functionId);
+        }
+        TypeDescription[] inSig = desc.getInSignature();
+        TypeDescription[] outSig = desc.getOutSignature();
+        Object[] args = new Object[inSig.length];
+        for (int i = 0; i < args.length; ++i) {
+            if (inSig[i] != null) {
+                if (outSig[i] != null) {
+                    Object inout = Array.newInstance(
+                        outSig[i].getComponentType().getZClass(), 1);
+                    Array.set(
+                        inout, 0,
+                        unmarshal.readValue(
+                            outSig[i].getComponentType()));
+                    args[i] = inout;
+                } else {
+                    args[i] = unmarshal.readValue(inSig[i]);
+                }
+            } else {
+                args[i] = Array.newInstance(
+                    outSig[i].getComponentType().getZClass(), 1);
+            }
+        }
+        boolean sync = forcedSynchronous || !desc.isOneway();
+        if (sync) {
+            pendingIn.push(
+                inL1Tid, new PendingRequests.Item(internal, desc, args));
+        }
+        return new UrpMessage(
+            inL1Tid, true, inL1Oid, inL1Type, desc, sync, cc, false, null, args,
+            internal);
+    }
+
+    private UrpMessage readReply(int header) {
+        if ((header & HEADER_NEWTID) != 0) {
+            inL1Tid = unmarshal.readThreadId();
+        }
+        PendingRequests.Item pending = pendingOut.pop(inL1Tid);
+        TypeDescription resultType;
+        TypeDescription[] argTypes;
+        Object[] args;
+        boolean exception = (header & HEADER_EXCEPTION) != 0;
+        if (exception) {
+            resultType = TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(TypeClass.ANY);
+            argTypes = null;
+            args = null;
+        } else {
+            resultType = pending.function.getReturnSignature();
+            argTypes = pending.function.getOutSignature();
+            args = pending.arguments;
+        }
+        Object result = resultType == null
+            ? null : unmarshal.readValue(resultType);
+        if (argTypes != null) {
+            for (int i = 0; i < argTypes.length; ++i) {
+                if (argTypes[i] != null) {
+                    Array.set(
+                        args[i], 0,
+                        unmarshal.readValue(
+                            argTypes[i].getComponentType()));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return new UrpMessage(
+            inL1Tid, false, null, null, null, false, null, exception, result,
+            args, pending.internal);
+    }
+
+    private boolean writeRequest(
+        boolean internal, String oid, TypeDescription type, String function,
+        ThreadId tid, Object[] arguments)
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        MethodDescription desc = type.getMethodDescription(function);
+        synchronized (output) {
+            if (desc.getIndex() == MethodDescription.ID_RELEASE
+                && releaseQueue.size() < MAX_RELEASE_QUEUE_SIZE)
+            {
+                releaseQueue.add(
+                    new QueuedRelease(internal, oid, type, desc, tid));
+                return false;
+            } else {
+                writeQueuedReleases();
+                return writeRequest(
+                    internal, oid, type, desc, tid, arguments, true);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private boolean writeRequest(
+        boolean internal, String oid, TypeDescription type,
+        MethodDescription desc, ThreadId tid, Object[] arguments,
+        boolean flush)
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        int funId = desc.getIndex();
+        if (funId < 0 || funId > MAX_FUNCTIONID16) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "function ID " + funId + " out of range");
+        }
+        boolean forceSync = forceSynchronous
+            && funId != MethodDescription.ID_RELEASE;
+        boolean moreFlags = forceSync && desc.isOneway();
+        boolean longHeader = moreFlags;
+        int header = 0;
+        if (!type.equals(outL1Type)) {
+            longHeader = true;
+            header |= HEADER_NEWTYPE;
+            outL1Type = type;
+        } else {
+            type = null;
+        }
+        if (!oid.equals(outL1Oid)) {
+            longHeader = true;
+            header |= HEADER_NEWOID;
+            outL1Oid = oid;
+        } else {
+            oid = null;
+        }
+        if (!tid.equals(outL1Tid)) {
+            longHeader = true;
+            header |= HEADER_NEWTID;
+            outL1Tid = tid;
+        } else {
+            tid = null;
+        }
+        if (funId > MAX_FUNCTIONID14) {
+            longHeader = true;
+        }
+        if (longHeader) {
+            header |= HEADER_LONGHEADER | HEADER_REQUEST;
+            if (funId > MAX_FUNCTIONID8) {
+                header |= HEADER_FUNCTIONID16;
+            }
+            if (moreFlags) {
+                header |= HEADER_MOREFLAGS;
+            }
+            marshal.write8Bit(header);
+            if (moreFlags) {
+                marshal.write8Bit(HEADER_MUSTREPLY | HEADER_SYNCHRONOUS);
+            }
+            if (funId > MAX_FUNCTIONID8) {
+                marshal.write16Bit(funId);
+            } else {
+                marshal.write8Bit(funId);
+            }
+            if (type != null) {
+                marshal.writeType(type);
+            }
+            if (oid != null) {
+                marshal.writeObjectId(oid);
+            }
+            if (tid != null) {
+                marshal.writeThreadId(tid);
+            }
+        } else {
+            if (funId > HEADER_FUNCTIONID) {
+                marshal.write8Bit(HEADER_FUNCTIONID14 | (funId >> 8));
+            }
+            marshal.write8Bit(funId);
+        }
+        if (currentContext && !internal
+            && funId != MethodDescription.ID_RELEASE)
+        {
+            marshal.writeInterface(
+                UnoRuntime.getCurrentContext(),
+                new Type(XCurrentContext.class));
+        }
+        TypeDescription[] inSig = desc.getInSignature();
+        TypeDescription[] outSig = desc.getOutSignature();
+        for (int i = 0; i < inSig.length; ++i) {
+            if (inSig[i] != null) {
+                if (outSig[i] != null) {
+                    marshal.writeValue(
+                        outSig[i].getComponentType(),
+                        ((Object[]) arguments[i])[0]);
+                } else {
+                    marshal.writeValue(
+                        inSig[i], arguments[i]);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        boolean sync = forceSync || !desc.isOneway();
+        if (sync) {
+            pendingOut.push(
+                outL1Tid, new PendingRequests.Item(internal, desc, arguments));
+        }
+        writeBlock(flush);
+        return sync;
+    }
+
+    private void writeBlock(boolean flush) throws IOException {
+        byte[] data = marshal.reset();
+        output.writeInt(data.length);
+        output.writeInt(1);
+        output.write(data);
+        if (flush) {
+            output.flush();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void writeQueuedReleases() throws IOException {
+        for (int i = releaseQueue.size(); i > 0;) {
+            --i;
+            QueuedRelease r = releaseQueue.get(i);
+            writeRequest(
+                r.internal, r.objectId, r.type, r.method, r.threadId, null,
+                false);
+            releaseQueue.remove(i);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static boolean parseAttributes(String attributes) {
+        boolean forceSynchronous = true;
+        if (attributes != null) {
+            StringTokenizer t = new StringTokenizer(attributes, ",");
+            while (t.hasMoreTokens()) {
+                String a = t.nextToken();
+                String v = null;
+                int i = a.indexOf('=');
+                if (i >= 0) {
+                    v = a.substring(i + 1);
+                    a = a.substring(0, i);
+                }
+                if (a.equalsIgnoreCase("ForceSynchronous")) {
+                    forceSynchronous = parseBooleanAttributeValue(a, v);
+                } else if (a.equalsIgnoreCase("negotiate")) {
+                    // Ignored:
+                    parseBooleanAttributeValue(a, v);
+                } else {
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                        "unknown protocol attribute " + a);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return forceSynchronous;
+    }
+
+    private static boolean parseBooleanAttributeValue(
+        String attribute, String value)
+    {
+        if (value == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "missing value for protocol attribute " + attribute);
+        }
+        if (value.equals("0")) {
+            return false;
+        } else if (value.equals("1")) {
+            return true;
+        } else {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "bad value " + value + " for protocol attribute " + attribute);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final class QueuedRelease {
+        public QueuedRelease(
+            boolean internal, String objectId, TypeDescription type,
+            MethodDescription method, ThreadId threadId)
+        {
+            this.internal = internal;
+            this.objectId = objectId;
+            this.type = type;
+            this.method = method;
+            this.threadId = threadId;
+        }
+
+        public final boolean internal;
+        public final String objectId;
+        public final TypeDescription type;
+        public final MethodDescription method;
+        public final ThreadId threadId;
+    }
+
+    private static final String PROPERTIES_OID = "UrpProtocolProperties";
+    private static final int PROPERTIES_FID_REQUEST_CHANGE = 4;
+    private static final String PROPERTIES_FUN_REQUEST_CHANGE = "requestChange";
+    private static final int PROPERTIES_FID_COMMIT_CHANGE = 5;
+    private static final String PROPERTIES_FUN_COMMIT_CHANGE = "commitChange";
+    private static final String PROPERTY_CURRENT_CONTEXT = "CurrentContext";
+
+    private static final short CACHE_SIZE = 256;
+
+    private static final int HEADER_LONGHEADER = 0x80;
+    private static final int HEADER_REQUEST = 0x40;
+    private static final int HEADER_NEWTYPE = 0x20;
+    private static final int HEADER_NEWOID = 0x10;
+    private static final int HEADER_NEWTID = 0x08;
+    private static final int HEADER_FUNCTIONID16 = 0x04;
+    private static final int HEADER_MOREFLAGS = 0x01;
+    private static final int HEADER_MUSTREPLY = 0x80;
+    private static final int HEADER_SYNCHRONOUS = 0x40;
+    private static final int HEADER_FUNCTIONID14 = 0x40;
+    private static final int HEADER_FUNCTIONID = 0x3F;
+    private static final int HEADER_EXCEPTION = 0x20;
+
+    private static final int MAX_FUNCTIONID16 = 0xFFFF;
+    private static final int MAX_FUNCTIONID14 = 0x3FFF;
+    private static final int MAX_FUNCTIONID8 = 0xFF;
+
+    private static final int STATE_INITIAL0 = 0;
+    private static final int STATE_INITIAL = 1;
+    private static final int STATE_REQUESTED = 2;
+    private static final int STATE_COMMITTED = 3;
+    private static final int STATE_WAIT = 4;
+    private static final int STATE_TERMINATED = 5;
+
+    private static final int MAX_RELEASE_QUEUE_SIZE = 100;
+
+    private static final Random randomGenerator = new Random();
+
+    private final DataInput input;
+    private final DataOutputStream output;
+
+    private final Marshal marshal;
+    private final Unmarshal unmarshal;
+
+    private final boolean forceSynchronous;
+
+    private final PendingRequests pendingIn = new PendingRequests();
+    private final PendingRequests pendingOut = new PendingRequests();
+
+    private final Object monitor = new Object();
+    private int state = STATE_INITIAL0;
+    private boolean initialized = false;
+    private ThreadId propertiesTid = null;
+    private int random;
+    private boolean currentContext = false;
+
+    private ThreadId inL1Tid = null;
+    private String inL1Oid = null;
+    private TypeDescription inL1Type = null;
+
+    private ThreadId outL1Tid = null;
+    private String outL1Oid = null;
+    private TypeDescription outL1Type = null;
+
+    private final ArrayList<QueuedRelease> releaseQueue = new ArrayList<QueuedRelease>(); // of QueuedRelease
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/FieldDescription.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/FieldDescription.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6dcdc99db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/FieldDescription.java
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+
+/**
+ * Describes non method members.
+ */
+public final class FieldDescription {
+    public FieldDescription(
+        String name, int index, TypeDescription typeDescription, Field field)
+    {
+        this.name = name;
+        this.index = index;
+        this.typeDescription = typeDescription;
+        this.field = field;
+    }
+
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isUnsigned() {
+        return MemberDescriptionHelper.isUnsigned(typeDescription);
+    }
+
+    public boolean isAny() {
+        return MemberDescriptionHelper.isAny(typeDescription);
+    }
+
+    public boolean isInterface() {
+        return MemberDescriptionHelper.isInterface(typeDescription);
+    }
+
+    public int getIndex() {
+        return index;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives the name of this member.
+     * <p>
+     * @return  the name
+     */
+    public TypeDescription getTypeDescription() {
+        return typeDescription;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives native java field of this member.
+     * <p>
+     * @return  the java field
+     */
+    public Field getField() {
+        return field;
+    }
+
+    private final String name;
+    private final int index;
+    private final TypeDescription typeDescription;
+    private final Field field;
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/MemberDescriptionHelper.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/MemberDescriptionHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..27a5361f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/MemberDescriptionHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass;
+
+final class MemberDescriptionHelper {
+    public static boolean isUnsigned(TypeDescription desc) {
+        switch (getElementTypeClass(desc).getValue()) {
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+            return true;
+
+        default:
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static boolean isAny(TypeDescription desc) {
+        return getElementTypeClass(desc) == TypeClass.ANY;
+    }
+
+    public static boolean isInterface(TypeDescription desc) {
+        return getElementTypeClass(desc) == TypeClass.INTERFACE;
+    }
+
+    private static TypeClass getElementTypeClass(TypeDescription desc) {
+        for (;; desc = desc.getComponentType()) {
+            TypeClass tc = desc.getTypeClass();
+            if (tc != TypeClass.SEQUENCE) {
+                return tc;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private MemberDescriptionHelper() {} // do not instantiate
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/MethodDescription.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/MethodDescription.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6cbbb1678
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/MethodDescription.java
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+
+/**
+ * Allows to examine a method in detail. It gives a view to java methods from a UNO point.
+ */
+public final class MethodDescription {
+    MethodDescription(
+        String name, int index, boolean oneway, TypeDescription[] inSignature,
+        TypeDescription[] outSignature, TypeDescription returnSignature,
+        Method method)
+    {
+        this.name = name;
+        this.index = index;
+        this.oneway = oneway;
+        this.inSignature = inSignature;
+        this.outSignature = outSignature;
+        this.returnSignature = returnSignature;
+        this.method = method;
+    }
+
+    MethodDescription(MethodDescription other, int index) {
+        this(
+            other.getName(), index, other.isOneway(), other.getInSignature(),
+            other.getOutSignature(), other.getReturnSignature(),
+            other.getMethod());
+    }
+
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isUnsigned() {
+        return MemberDescriptionHelper.isUnsigned(returnSignature);
+    }
+
+    public boolean isAny() {
+        return MemberDescriptionHelper.isAny(returnSignature);
+    }
+
+    public boolean isInterface() {
+        return MemberDescriptionHelper.isInterface(returnSignature);
+    }
+
+    public int getIndex() {
+        return index;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Indicates if this method is <code>oneWay</code>,
+     * respectively if this method may become executed asynchronously.
+     * @return  true means may execute asynchronously .
+     */
+    public boolean isOneway() {
+        return oneway;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Indicates if this method is const.
+     * @return true means it is const.
+     */
+    public boolean isConst() {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives any array of <code>TypeDescription</code> of
+     * the [in] parameters.
+     * @return the in parameters
+     */
+    public TypeDescription[] getInSignature() {
+        return inSignature;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives any array of <code>TypeDescription</code> of
+     * the [out] parameters.
+     * @return the out parameters
+     */
+    public TypeDescription[] getOutSignature() {
+        return outSignature;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives the <code>TypeDescription</code> of
+     * the return type.
+     * @return the return type <code>TypeDescription</code>
+     */
+    public TypeDescription getReturnSignature() {
+        return returnSignature;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives native java method of this method.
+     * @return the java method
+     */
+    public Method getMethod() {
+        return method;
+    }
+
+    public static final int ID_QUERY_INTERFACE = 0;
+    public static final int ID_ACQUIRE = 1;
+    public static final int ID_RELEASE = 2;
+
+    private final String name;
+    private final int index;
+    private final boolean oneway;
+    private final TypeDescription[] inSignature;
+    private final TypeDescription[] outSignature;
+    private final TypeDescription returnSignature;
+    private final Method method;
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/TypeDescription.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/TypeDescription.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a3c3bcd52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typedesc/TypeDescription.java
@@ -0,0 +1,819 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo.AttributeTypeInfo;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo.MemberTypeInfo;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo.MethodTypeInfo;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo.ParameterTypeInfo;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo.TypeInfo;
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+import com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass;
+import java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue;
+import java.lang.ref.SoftReference;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+/**
+ * Supplies information about UNO types. Allows to examine a type
+ * in detail (e.g. it is used for marshaling/unmarshaling).
+ *
+ * @since UDK2.0
+ */
+public final class TypeDescription {
+    public static TypeDescription getTypeDescription(String typeName)
+        throws ClassNotFoundException
+    {
+        Type t = new Type(typeName);
+        if (t.getTypeClass() == TypeClass.UNKNOWN) {
+            if (typeName.startsWith("[]")) {
+                t = new Type(typeName, TypeClass.SEQUENCE);
+            } else {
+                t = new Type(Class.forName(typeName));
+            }
+        }
+        return get(t);
+    }
+
+    public static TypeDescription getTypeDescription(Class<?> zClass) {
+        return getDefinitely(new Type(zClass));
+    }
+
+    public static TypeDescription getTypeDescription(Type type)
+        throws ClassNotFoundException
+    {
+        //TODO: synchronize on type?
+        TypeDescription desc = type.getTypeDescription();
+        if (desc == null) {
+            desc = getTypeDescription(type.getTypeName());
+            type.setTypeDescription(desc);
+        }
+        return desc;
+    }
+
+    public static TypeDescription getTypeDescription(TypeClass typeClass) {
+        switch (typeClass.getValue()) {
+        case TypeClass.VOID_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.VOID);
+
+        case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.BOOLEAN);
+
+        case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.BYTE);
+
+        case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.SHORT);
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.UNSIGNED_SHORT);
+
+        case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.LONG);
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.UNSIGNED_LONG);
+
+        case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.HYPER);
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.UNSIGNED_HYPER);
+
+        case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.FLOAT);
+
+        case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.DOUBLE);
+
+        case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.CHAR);
+
+        case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.STRING);
+
+        case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.TYPE);
+
+        case TypeClass.ANY_value:
+            return getDefinitely(Type.ANY);
+
+        default:
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static boolean isTypeClassSimple(TypeClass typeClass) {
+        return getTypeDescription(typeClass) != null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <code>TypeDescription</code> of the
+     * super, if it exists.
+     * @return  the <code>TypeDescription</code>.
+     */
+    public TypeDescription getSuperType() {
+        // Arbitrarily take the first super type:
+        return superTypes == null || superTypes.length == 0
+            ? null : superTypes[0];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <code>MethodDescription</code> for every
+     * method, if this type is an interface. Otherwise
+     * returns <code>null</code>.
+     * @return  the <code>MethodDescription[]</code>.
+     */
+    public MethodDescription[] getMethodDescriptions() {
+        initMethodDescriptions();
+        return methodDescriptions; //TODO: clone?
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <code>MethodDescription</code> for the
+     * method with index methodId, if it exists, otherwise
+     * returns <code>null</code>.
+     *
+     * @param methodId the index.
+     *
+     * @return  the <code>MethodDescription</code>.
+     */
+    public MethodDescription getMethodDescription(int methodId) {
+        initMethodDescriptions();
+        return methodId < 0
+            ? null
+            : methodId < superMethodDescriptions.length
+            ? superMethodDescriptions[methodId]
+            : (methodId - superMethodDescriptions.length
+               < methodDescriptions.length)
+            ? methodDescriptions[methodId - superMethodDescriptions.length]
+            : null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <code>MethodDescription</code> for the
+     * method with the name <code>name</code>, if it exists,
+     * otherwise returns <code>null</code>.
+     *
+     * @param name the name of the method.
+     *
+     * @return  the <code>MethodDescription</code>.
+     */
+    public MethodDescription getMethodDescription(String name) {
+        initMethodDescriptions();
+        for (int i = 0; i < superMethodDescriptions.length; ++i) {
+            if (superMethodDescriptions[i].getName().equals(name)) {
+                return superMethodDescriptions[i];
+            }
+        }
+        for (int i = 0; i < methodDescriptions.length; ++i) {
+            if (methodDescriptions[i].getName().equals(name)) {
+                return methodDescriptions[i];
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <code>FieldDescription</code> for every
+     * field, if this type is an interface. Otherwise
+     * returns <code>null</code>.
+     * @return  the <code>FieldDescription[]</code>.
+     */
+    public FieldDescription[] getFieldDescriptions() {
+        return fieldDescriptions; //TODO: clone?
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <code>FieldDescription</code> for the
+     * field with the name <code>name</code>, if it exists,
+     * otherwise returns <code>null</code>.
+     *
+     * @param name the name of the field.
+     *
+     * @return  the <code>FieldDescription</code>.
+     */
+    public FieldDescription getFieldDescription(String name) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < fieldDescriptions.length; ++i) {
+            if (fieldDescriptions[i].getName().equals(name)) {
+                return fieldDescriptions[i];
+            }
+        }
+        return superTypes != null && superTypes.length == 1
+            ? superTypes[0].getFieldDescription(name) : null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the IDL <code>TypeClass</code> of the type.
+     * @return  the <code>TypeClass</code>.
+     */
+    public TypeClass getTypeClass() {
+        return typeClass;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the component <code>TypeDescription</code> if
+     * this is an array type, otherwise returns <code>null</code>.
+     * @return the <code>TypeDescription</code>
+     */
+    public TypeDescription getComponentType() {
+        return componentType;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the (UNO) type name.
+     * <table>
+     *   <caption>Mapping from UNO types to type names</caption>
+     *   <thead>
+     *     <tr><th>UNO type</th><th>type name</th></tr>
+     *   </thead>
+     *   <tbody>
+     *     <tr><td>VOID</td><td><code>"void"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>BOOLEAN</td><td><code>"boolean"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>CHAR</td><td><code>"char"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>BYTE</td><td><code>"byte"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>SHORT</td><td><code>"short"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr>
+     *       <td>UNSIGNED SHORT</td><td><code>"unsigned short"</code></td>
+     *     </tr>
+     *     <tr><td>LONG</td><td><code>"long"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>UNSIGNED LONG</td><td><code>"unsigned long"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>HYPER</td><td><code>"hyper"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr>
+     *       <td>UNSIGNED HYPER</td><td><code>"unsigned hyper"</code></td>
+     *     </tr>
+     *     <tr><td>FLOAT</td><td><code>"float"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>DOUBLE</td><td><code>"double"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>STRING</td><td><code>"string"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>TYPE</td><td><code>"type"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr><td>ANY</td><td><code>"any"</code></td></tr>
+     *     <tr>
+     *       <td>sequence type of base type <var>T</var></td>
+     *       <td><code>"[]"</code> followed by type name for <var>T</var></td>
+     *     </tr>
+     *     <tr>
+     *       <td>enum type named <var>N</var></td>
+     *       <td><var>N</var> (see below)</td>
+     *     </tr>
+     *     <tr>
+     *       <td>struct type named <var>N</var></td>
+     *       <td><var>N</var> (see below)</td>
+     *     </tr>
+     *     <tr>
+     *       <td>exception type named <var>N</var></td>
+     *       <td><var>N</var> (see below)</td>
+     *     </tr>
+     *     <tr>
+     *       <td>interface type named <var>N</var></td>
+     *       <td><var>N</var> (see below)</td>
+     *     </tr>
+     *   </tbody>
+     * </table>
+     * <p>For a UNO type named <var>N</var>, consisting of a sequence of module
+     * names <var>M<sub>1</sub></var>, ..., <var>M<sub>n</sub></var> followed by
+     * a simple name <var>S</var>, the corresponding type name consists of the
+     * same sequence of module names and simple name, with <code>"."</code>
+     * separating the individual elements.</p>
+     * @return the type name.
+     */
+    public String getTypeName() {
+        return typeName;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the (Java) array type name.
+     * <p>The array type name is defined to be the Java class name (as returned
+     * by <code>Class.forName</code>) of the Java array class that corresponds
+     * to the UNO sequence type with this type (the UNO type represented by this
+     * <code>TypeDescription</code> instance) as base type.  For an
+     * <code>TypeDescription</code> instance representing the UNO type VOID,
+     * the array type name is defined to be
+     * <code>"[Ljava.lang.Void;"</code>.</p>
+     * @return the array type name.
+     */
+    public String getArrayTypeName() {
+        return arrayTypeName;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the corresponding java class for the type.
+     * @return   the corresponding java class.
+     */
+    public Class<?> getZClass() {
+        return zClass;
+    }
+
+    public boolean hasTypeArguments() {
+        return hasTypeArguments;
+    }
+
+    // @see Object#toString
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "[" + getClass().getName() + ": " + getTypeClass() + ", "
+            + getTypeName() + "]";
+    }
+
+    private static TypeDescription getDefinitely(Type type) {
+        try {
+            return get(type);
+        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("this cannot happen: " + e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static TypeDescription get(Type type) throws ClassNotFoundException
+    {
+        String typeName = type.getTypeName();
+        TypeDescription desc = cache.get(typeName);
+        if (desc == null) {
+            desc = create(type);
+            cache.put(desc);
+        }
+        return desc;
+    }
+
+    private static TypeDescription create(Type type)
+        throws ClassNotFoundException
+    {
+        TypeClass typeClass = type.getTypeClass();
+        String typeName = type.getTypeName();
+        Class<?> zClass = type.getZClass();
+        if (zClass == null) {
+            throw new ClassNotFoundException("UNO type " + type);
+        }
+        switch (typeClass.getValue()) {
+        case TypeClass.VOID_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[Ljava.lang.Void;", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[Z", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[B", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[S", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[I", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[J", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[F", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[D", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[C", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[Ljava.lang.String;", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[Lcom.sun.star.uno.Type;", zClass, null,
+                null);
+
+        case TypeClass.ANY_value:
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[Ljava.lang.Object;", zClass, null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+            {
+                // assert typeName.startsWith("[]");
+                TypeDescription componentType = getTypeDescription(
+                    typeName.substring("[]".length()));
+                // assert zClass.getName().startsWith("[");
+                return new TypeDescription(
+                    typeClass, typeName, "[" + zClass.getName(), zClass, null,
+                    componentType);
+            }
+
+        case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+            // assert !zClass.getName().startsWith("[");
+            return new TypeDescription(
+                typeClass, typeName, "[L" + zClass.getName() + ";", zClass,
+                null, null);
+
+        case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+            {
+                // This code exploits the fact that an instantiated polymorphic
+                // struct type may not be the direct base of a struct type:
+                Class<?> superClass = zClass.getSuperclass();
+                TypeDescription[] superTypes = superClass != Object.class
+                    ? new TypeDescription[] { get(new Type(superClass)) }
+                    : null;
+                // assert !zClass.getName().startsWith("[");
+                return new TypeDescription(
+                    typeClass, typeName, "[L" + zClass.getName() + ";", zClass,
+                    superTypes, null);
+            }
+
+        case TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value:
+            {
+                TypeDescription[] superTypes
+                    = typeName.equals("com.sun.star.uno.Exception")
+                    || typeName.equals("com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException")
+                    ? null
+                    : new TypeDescription[] {
+                            get(new Type(zClass.getSuperclass())) };
+                // assert !zClass.getName().startsWith("[");
+                return new TypeDescription(
+                    typeClass, typeName, "[L" + zClass.getName() + ";", zClass,
+                    superTypes, null);
+            }
+
+        case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+            {
+                List superTypes = new List();
+                Class<?>[] interfaces = zClass.getInterfaces();
+                for (int i = 0; i < interfaces.length; ++i) {
+                    Type t = new Type(interfaces[i]);
+                    if (t.getTypeClass() == TypeClass.INTERFACE) {
+                        TypeDescription desc = getDefinitely(t);
+                        TypeDescription[] descs = desc.superTypes;
+                        for (int j = 0; j < descs.length; ++j) {
+                            superTypes.add(descs[j]);
+                        }
+                        superTypes.add(desc);
+                    }
+                }
+                // assert !zClass.getName().startsWith("[");
+                return new TypeDescription(
+                    typeClass, typeName, "[L" + zClass.getName() + ";", zClass,
+                    superTypes.toArray(), null);
+            }
+
+        default:
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("given type has bad type class");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private TypeDescription(
+        TypeClass typeClass, String typeName, String arrayTypeName,
+        Class<?> zClass, TypeDescription[] superTypes,
+        TypeDescription componentType)
+    {
+        this.typeClass = typeClass;
+        this.typeName = typeName;
+        this.arrayTypeName = arrayTypeName;
+        this.zClass = zClass;
+        this.superTypes = superTypes;
+        this.componentType = componentType;
+        TypeDescription[] args = calculateTypeArguments();
+        this.hasTypeArguments = args != null;
+        this.fieldDescriptions = calculateFieldDescriptions(args);
+        // methodDescriptions must be initialized lazily, to avoid problems with
+        // circular dependencies (a super-interface that has a sub-interface as
+        // method parameter type; an interface that has a struct as method
+        // parameter type, and the struct has the interface as member type)
+    }
+
+    private synchronized void initMethodDescriptions() {
+        if (methodDescriptions != null || typeClass != TypeClass.INTERFACE) {
+            return;
+        }
+        if (superTypes.length == 0) { // com.sun.star.uno.XInterface
+            superMethodDescriptions = new MethodDescription[0];
+            methodDescriptions = new MethodDescription[] {
+                new MethodDescription(
+                    "queryInterface", MethodDescription.ID_QUERY_INTERFACE,
+                    false, new TypeDescription[] { getDefinitely(Type.TYPE) },
+                    new TypeDescription[] { null }, getDefinitely(Type.ANY),
+                    null),
+                new MethodDescription(
+                    "acquire", MethodDescription.ID_ACQUIRE, true,
+                    new TypeDescription[0], new TypeDescription[0],
+                    getDefinitely(Type.VOID), null),
+                new MethodDescription(
+                    "release", MethodDescription.ID_RELEASE, true,
+                    new TypeDescription[0], new TypeDescription[0],
+                    getDefinitely(Type.VOID), null) };
+        } else {
+            int methodOffset = 0;
+            ArrayList<MethodDescription> superList = new ArrayList<MethodDescription>();
+            for (int i = 0; i < superTypes.length; ++i) {
+                MethodDescription[] ds = superTypes[i].getMethodDescriptions();
+                for (int j = 0; j < ds.length; ++j) {
+                    superList.add(new MethodDescription(ds[j], methodOffset++));
+                }
+            }
+            superMethodDescriptions = superList.toArray(
+                new MethodDescription[superList.size()]);
+            ArrayList<MethodDescription> directList = new ArrayList<MethodDescription>();
+            TypeInfo[] infos = getTypeInfo();
+            int infoCount = infos == null ? 0 : infos.length;
+            int index = 0;
+            Method[] methods = zClass.getDeclaredMethods();
+            for (int i = 0; i < infoCount;) {
+                if (infos[i] instanceof AttributeTypeInfo) {
+                    AttributeTypeInfo info = (AttributeTypeInfo) infos[i++];
+                    if (info.getIndex() != index) {
+                        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                            "Bad UNOTYPEINFO for " + zClass
+                            + ": entries not ordererd");
+                    }
+                    String getterName = "get" + info.getName();
+                    Method getter = findMethod(methods, getterName);
+                    Type t = info.getUnoType();
+                    TypeDescription type = t == null
+                        ? getTypeDescription(getter.getReturnType(), info)
+                        : getDefinitely(t);
+                    directList.add(
+                        new MethodDescription(
+                            getterName, index++ + methodOffset, false,
+                            new TypeDescription[0], new TypeDescription[0],
+                            type, getter));
+                    if (!info.isReadOnly()) {
+                        String setterName = "set" + info.getName();
+                        Method setter = findMethod(methods, setterName);
+                        directList.add(
+                            new MethodDescription(
+                                setterName, index++ + methodOffset, false,
+                                new TypeDescription[] { type },
+                                new TypeDescription[] { null },
+                                getDefinitely(Type.VOID), setter));
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    MethodTypeInfo info = (MethodTypeInfo) infos[i++];
+                    if (info.getIndex() != index) {
+                        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                            "Bad UNOTYPEINFO for " + zClass
+                            + ": entries not ordererd");
+                    }
+                    Method method = findMethod(methods, info.getName());
+                    Class<?>[] params = method.getParameterTypes();
+                    TypeDescription[] in = new TypeDescription[params.length];
+                    TypeDescription[] out
+                        = new TypeDescription[params.length];
+                    for (int j = 0; j < params.length; ++j) {
+                        ParameterTypeInfo p = null;
+                        if (i < infoCount
+                            && infos[i] instanceof ParameterTypeInfo
+                            && ((ParameterTypeInfo) infos[i]).getIndex() == j)
+                        {
+                            p = (ParameterTypeInfo) infos[i++];
+                        }
+                        Type pt = p == null ? null : p.getUnoType();
+                        TypeDescription d = pt == null
+                            ? getTypeDescription(params[j], p)
+                            : getDefinitely(pt);
+                        if (p == null || p.isIN()) {
+                            in[j] = d;
+                        }
+                        if (p != null && p.isOUT()) {
+                            out[j] = d;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    Type t = info.getUnoType();
+                    directList.add(
+                        new MethodDescription(
+                            info.getName(), index++ + methodOffset,
+                            info.isOneway(), in, out,
+                            (t == null
+                             ? getTypeDescription(method.getReturnType(), info)
+                             : getDefinitely(t)),
+                            method));
+                }
+            }
+            methodDescriptions = directList.toArray(
+                new MethodDescription[directList.size()]);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private TypeDescription[] calculateTypeArguments() {
+        if (typeClass != TypeClass.STRUCT) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        int i = typeName.indexOf('<');
+        if (i < 0) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        java.util.List<TypeDescription> args = new java.util.ArrayList<TypeDescription>();
+        do {
+            ++i; // skip '<' or ','
+            int j = i;
+        loop:
+            for (int level = 0; j != typeName.length(); ++j) {
+                switch (typeName.charAt(j)) {
+                case ',':
+                    if (level == 0) {
+                        break loop;
+                    }
+                    break;
+
+                case '<':
+                    ++level;
+                    break;
+
+                case '>':
+                    if (level == 0) {
+                        break loop;
+                    }
+                    --level;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            if (j != typeName.length()) {
+                Type t = new Type(typeName.substring(i, j));
+                if (t.getZClass() == null) {
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                        "UNO type name \"" + typeName
+                        + "\" contains bad type argument \""
+                        + typeName.substring(i, j) + "\"");
+                }
+                args.add(getDefinitely(t));
+            }
+            i = j;
+        } while (i != typeName.length() && typeName.charAt(i) != '>');
+        if (i != typeName.length() - 1 || typeName.charAt(i) != '>'
+            || args.isEmpty())
+        {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "UNO type name \"" + typeName + "\" is syntactically invalid");
+        }
+        return args.toArray(
+                new TypeDescription[args.size()]);
+    }
+
+    private FieldDescription[] calculateFieldDescriptions(
+        TypeDescription[] typeArguments)
+    {
+        if (typeClass != TypeClass.STRUCT && typeClass != TypeClass.EXCEPTION) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        TypeInfo[] infos = getTypeInfo();
+        int infoCount = infos == null ? 0 : infos.length;
+        TypeDescription superType = getSuperType();
+        FieldDescription[] superDescs = superType == null
+            ? null : superType.getFieldDescriptions();
+        int superCount = superDescs == null ? 0 : superDescs.length;
+        FieldDescription[] descs = new FieldDescription[
+            superCount + infoCount];
+        if (superCount != 0) {
+            System.arraycopy(superDescs, 0, descs, 0, superCount);
+        }
+        for (int i = 0; i < infoCount; ++i) {
+            MemberTypeInfo info = (MemberTypeInfo) infos[i];
+            if (info.getIndex() != i) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "Bad UNOTYPEINFO for " + zClass + ": entries not ordererd");
+            }
+            Field field;
+            try {
+                field = zClass.getDeclaredField(info.getName());
+            } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "Bad UNOTYPEINFO for " + zClass + ": " + e);
+            }
+            Type t = info.getUnoType();
+            int index = info.getTypeParameterIndex();
+            descs[i + superCount] = new FieldDescription(
+                info.getName(), i + superCount,
+                (index >= 0
+                 ? typeArguments[index]
+                 : t == null
+                 ? getTypeDescription(field.getType(), info)
+                 : getDefinitely(t)),
+                field);
+        }
+        return descs;
+    }
+
+    private TypeInfo[] getTypeInfo() {
+        try {
+            return (TypeInfo[])
+                zClass.getDeclaredField("UNOTYPEINFO").get(null);
+        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
+            return null;
+        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "Bad UNOTYPEINFO for " + zClass + ": " + e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Method findMethod(Method[] methods, String name) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < methods.length; ++i) {
+            if (methods[i].getName().equals(name)) {
+                return methods[i];
+            }
+        }
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+            "Bad UNOTYPEINFO for " + zClass + ": no method " + name);
+    }
+
+    private static TypeDescription getTypeDescription(
+        Class<?> zClass, TypeInfo typeInfo)
+    {
+        return getDefinitely(
+            new Type(
+                zClass,
+                typeInfo != null
+                && (typeInfo.isUnsigned() || typeInfo.isInterface())));
+    }
+
+    private static final class List {
+
+        public void add(TypeDescription desc) {
+            if (!list.contains(desc)) {
+                list.add(desc);
+            }
+        }
+
+        public TypeDescription[] toArray() {
+            return list.toArray(
+                new TypeDescription[list.size()]);
+        }
+
+        private final ArrayList<TypeDescription> list = new ArrayList<TypeDescription>();
+    }
+
+    private static final class Cache {
+
+        public TypeDescription get(String typeName) {
+            synchronized (map) {
+                cleanUp();
+                Entry e = map.get(typeName);
+                return e == null ? null : (TypeDescription) e.get();
+            }
+        }
+
+        public void put(TypeDescription desc) {
+            synchronized (map) {
+                cleanUp();
+                map.put(desc.getTypeName(), new Entry(desc, queue));
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void cleanUp() {
+            for (;;) {
+                Object tmp = queue.poll();
+                Entry e = (Entry)tmp;
+                if (e == null) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                map.remove(e.typeName);
+            }
+        }
+
+        private static final class Entry extends SoftReference<TypeDescription> {
+            public Entry(TypeDescription desc, ReferenceQueue<TypeDescription> queue) {
+                super(desc, queue);
+                typeName = desc.getTypeName();
+            }
+
+            public final String typeName;
+        }
+
+        private final HashMap<String, Entry> map = new HashMap<String, Entry>();
+        private final ReferenceQueue<TypeDescription> queue = new ReferenceQueue<TypeDescription>();
+    }
+
+    private static final Cache cache = new Cache();
+
+    private final TypeClass typeClass;
+    private final String typeName;
+    private final String arrayTypeName;
+    private final Class<?> zClass;
+    private final TypeDescription[] superTypes;
+    private final TypeDescription componentType;
+    private final boolean hasTypeArguments;
+    private final FieldDescription[] fieldDescriptions;
+    private MethodDescription[] methodDescriptions = null;
+    private MethodDescription[] superMethodDescriptions;
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/AttributeTypeInfo.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/AttributeTypeInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3230528e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/AttributeTypeInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+
+public class AttributeTypeInfo extends TypeInfo
+{
+    protected int m_index;
+    private final Type m_unoType; // @since UDK 3.2
+
+    /**
+       Create an attribute type info with a UNO type that cannot unambiguously
+       be represented as a Java&nbsp;1.2 type.
+
+       @param name the name of this attribute; must not be <code>null</code>
+
+       @param index the index among the direct members
+
+       @param flags any flags (<code>READONLY</code>, <code>BOUND</code>,
+       <code>UNSIGNED</code>, <code>ANY</code>, <code>INTERFACE</code>)
+
+       @param unoType the exact UNO type; or <code>null</code> if the UNO type
+       is already unambiguously represented by the Java&nbsp;1.2 type
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public AttributeTypeInfo(String name, int index, int flags, Type unoType) {
+        super(name, flags);
+        m_index = index;
+        m_unoType = unoType;
+    }
+
+    public AttributeTypeInfo(String name, int index, int flags)
+    {
+        this(name, index, flags, null);
+    }
+
+    public int getIndex()
+    {
+        return m_index;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isReadOnly()
+    {
+        return (m_flags & TypeInfo.READONLY) != 0;
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Returns the status of the 'bound' flag.
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public final boolean isBound() {
+        return (m_flags & TypeInfo.BOUND) != 0;
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Get the exact UNO type of this attribute type info, in case it cannot
+       unambiguously be represented as a Java&nbsp;1.2 type.
+
+       @return the exact UNO type of this attribute type info, or
+       <code>null</code> if the UNO type is already unambiguously represented by
+       the Java&nbsp;1.2 type
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public final Type getUnoType() {
+        return m_unoType;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/ConstantTypeInfo.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/ConstantTypeInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2676718cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/ConstantTypeInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo;
+
+/**
+   @deprecated <code>UNOTYPEINFO</code> for constants is not needed
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public class ConstantTypeInfo extends TypeInfo
+{
+    public ConstantTypeInfo(String name, int flags)
+    {
+        super(name, flags);
+    }
+}
+
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/MemberTypeInfo.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/MemberTypeInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5b3f669fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/MemberTypeInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+
+public class MemberTypeInfo extends TypeInfo
+{
+    int m_index;
+    private final Type m_unoType; // @since UDK 3.2
+    private final int m_typeParameterIndex; // @since UDK 3.2
+
+    /**
+       Create a member type info with a UNO type that cannot unambiguously be
+       represented as a Java&nbsp;1.2 type.
+
+       @param name the name of this member; must not be <code>null</code>
+
+       @param index the index among the direct members
+
+       @param flags any flags (<code>UNSIGNED</code>, <code>ANY</code>,
+       <code>INTERFACE</code>, <code>TYPE_PARAMETER</code>)
+
+       @param unoType the exact UNO type; or <code>null</code> if the UNO type
+       is already unambiguously represented by the Java&nbsp;1.2 type
+
+       @param typeParameterIndex the index of the type parameter that determines
+       the type of this parameterized member; or <code>-1</code> if this member
+       is of an explicit type, or is the member of a plain struct type
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public MemberTypeInfo(
+        String name, int index, int flags, Type unoType, int typeParameterIndex)
+    {
+        super(name, flags);
+        m_index = index;
+        m_unoType = unoType;
+        m_typeParameterIndex = typeParameterIndex;
+    }
+
+    public MemberTypeInfo(String name, int index, int flags )
+    {
+        this(name, index, flags, null, -1);
+    }
+
+    public int getIndex()
+    {
+        return m_index;
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Get the exact UNO type of this member type info, in case it cannot
+       unambiguously be represented as a Java&nbsp;1.2 type.
+
+       @return the exact UNO type of this member type info, or <code>null</code>
+       if the UNO type is already unambiguously represented by the Java&nbsp;1.2
+       type
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public final Type getUnoType() {
+        return m_unoType;
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Returns the index of the type parameter that determines the parameterized
+       type of this member.
+
+       @return the index of the type parameter that determines the type of this
+       parameterized member; if this member is of an explicit type, or is the
+       member of a plain struct type, <code>-1</code> is returned
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public final int getTypeParameterIndex() {
+        return m_typeParameterIndex;
+    }
+}
+
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/MethodTypeInfo.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/MethodTypeInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..319e63514
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/MethodTypeInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+
+public class MethodTypeInfo extends TypeInfo
+{
+    protected int m_index;
+    private final Type m_unoType; // @since UDK 3.2
+
+    /**
+       Create a method type info with a UNO return type that cannot
+       unambiguously be represented as a Java&nbsp;1.2 type.
+
+       @param name the name of this method; must not be <code>null</code>
+
+       @param index the index among the direct members
+
+       @param flags any flags (<code>ONEWAY</code>, <code>UNSIGNED</code>,
+       <code>ANY</code>, <code>INTERFACE</code>)
+
+       @param unoType the exact UNO return type; or <code>null</code> if the UNO
+       type is already unambiguously represented by the Java&nbsp;1.2 type
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public MethodTypeInfo(String name, int index, int flags, Type unoType) {
+        super(name, flags);
+        m_index = index;
+        m_unoType = unoType;
+    }
+
+    public MethodTypeInfo(String name, int index, int flags)
+    {
+        this(name, index, flags, null);
+    }
+
+    public int getIndex()
+    {
+        return m_index;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isReturnUnsigned()
+    {
+        return isUnsigned();
+    }
+
+    public boolean isOneway()
+    {
+        return (m_flags & TypeInfo.ONEWAY) != 0;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isConst()
+    {
+        return (m_flags & TypeInfo.CONST) != 0;
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Get the exact UNO return type of this method type info, in case it cannot
+       unambiguously be represented as a Java&nbsp;1.2 type.
+
+       @return the exact UNO return type of this method type info, or
+       <code>null</code> if the UNO type is already unambiguously represented by
+       the Java&nbsp;1.2 type
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public final Type getUnoType() {
+        return m_unoType;
+    }
+}
+
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/ParameterTypeInfo.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/ParameterTypeInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f15ddc816
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/ParameterTypeInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo;
+
+import com.sun.star.uno.Type;
+
+public class ParameterTypeInfo extends TypeInfo
+{
+    protected int       m_index;
+    protected String    m_methodName;
+    private final Type m_unoType; // @since UDK 3.2
+
+    /**
+       Create a parameter type info with a UNO type that cannot unambiguously be
+       represented as a Java&nbsp;1.2 type.
+
+       @param name the name of this parameter; must not be <code>null</code>
+
+       @param methodName the name of the method; must not be <code>null</code>
+
+       @param index the index among the parameters
+
+       @param flags any flags (<code>IN</code>, <code>OUT</code>,
+       <code>UNSIGNED</code>, <code>ANY</code>, <code>INTERFACE</code>)
+
+       @param unoType the exact UNO type; or <code>null</code> if the UNO type
+       is already unambiguously represented by the Java&nbsp;1.2 type
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public ParameterTypeInfo(
+        String name, String methodName, int index, int flags, Type unoType)
+    {
+        super(name, flags);
+        m_index = index;
+        m_methodName = methodName;
+        m_unoType = unoType;
+    }
+
+    public ParameterTypeInfo(String name, String methodName, int index, int flags)
+    {
+        this(name, methodName, index, flags, null);
+    }
+
+    public String getMethodName()
+    {
+        return m_methodName;
+    }
+
+    public int getIndex()
+    {
+        return m_index;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isIN()
+    {
+        return ((m_flags & TypeInfo.IN) != 0 ||
+                (m_flags & (TypeInfo.IN | TypeInfo.OUT)) == 0); // nothing set => IN
+    }
+
+    public boolean isOUT()
+    {
+        return (m_flags & TypeInfo.OUT) != 0;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isINOUT()
+    {
+        return (m_flags & (TypeInfo.IN | TypeInfo.OUT)) == (TypeInfo.IN | TypeInfo.OUT);
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Get the exact UNO type of this parameter type info, in case it cannot
+       unambiguously be represented as a Java&nbsp;1.2 type.
+
+       <p>If this is an out or in&ndash;out parameter, the UNO type must be a
+       sequence type, taking into account that such a parameter is represented
+       in Java as a parameter of array type.</p>
+
+       @return the exact UNO type of this parameter type info, or
+       <code>null</code> if the UNO type is already unambiguously represented by
+       the Java&nbsp;1.2 type
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public final Type getUnoType() {
+        return m_unoType;
+    }
+}
+
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/TypeInfo.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/TypeInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2503029fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/uno/typeinfo/TypeInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.uno.typeinfo;
+
+
+/** Defines a class to describe additional type information.
+ */
+public class TypeInfo
+{
+    public static final int IN          = 0x00000001;
+    public static final int OUT         = 0x00000002;
+    public static final int UNSIGNED    = 0x00000004;
+    public static final int READONLY    = 0x00000008;
+    public static final int ONEWAY      = 0x00000010;
+    public static final int CONST       = 0x00000020;
+    public static final int ANY         = 0x00000040;
+    public static final int INTERFACE   = 0x00000080;
+
+    /**
+       Marks an extended attribute of an interface type as bound.
+
+       <p>Only used in the <code>flags</code> argument of the
+       <code>AttributeTypeInfo</code> constructors.</p>
+
+       @since UDK 3.2
+     */
+    public static final int BOUND = 0x00000100;
+
+    protected int       m_flags;
+    protected String    m_name;
+
+    public TypeInfo(String name, int flags)
+    {
+        m_name = name;
+        m_flags = flags;
+    }
+
+    public String getName()
+    {
+        return m_name;
+    }
+
+    public int getFlags() {
+        return m_flags;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isUnsigned()
+    {
+        return (m_flags & TypeInfo.UNSIGNED) != 0;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isAny()
+    {
+        return (m_flags & TypeInfo.ANY) != 0;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isInterface()
+    {
+        return (m_flags & TypeInfo.INTERFACE) != 0;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/AsynchronousFinalizer.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/AsynchronousFinalizer.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..588b8fe38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/AsynchronousFinalizer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.util;
+
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+
+/**
+ * Helper class to asynchronously execute finalize methods.
+ *
+ * <p>Current JVMs seem not to be robust against long-running finalize methods,
+ * in that such long-running finalize methods may lead to OutOfMemoryErrors.
+ * This class mitigates the problem by asynchronously shifting the bodies of
+ * potentially long-running finalize methods into an extra thread.  Classes that
+ * make use of this in their finalize methods are the proxies used in the
+ * intra-process JNI UNO bridge and the inter-process Java URP UNO bridge (where
+ * in both cases finalizers lead to synchronous UNO release calls).</p>
+ *
+ * <p>Irrespective whether JVMs are getting more mature and should no longer
+ * have problems with long-running finalize methods, at least the JNI UNO bridge
+ * needs some way to stop finalization of proxies (to C++ objects) well before
+ * process exit, as provided by drain().</p>
+ */
+public final class AsynchronousFinalizer {
+    public AsynchronousFinalizer() {
+        thread = new Thread("AsynchronousFinalizer") {
+                @Override
+                public void run() {
+                    for (;;) {
+                        Job j;
+                        synchronized (queue) {
+                            for (;;) {
+                                if (done) {
+                                    return;
+                                }
+                                if (!queue.isEmpty()) {
+                                    break;
+                                }
+                                try {
+                                    queue.wait();
+                                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                                    return;
+                                }
+                            }
+                            j = queue.remove(0);
+                        }
+                        try {
+                            j.run();
+                        } catch (Throwable e) {}
+                    }
+                }
+            };
+        thread.start();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Add a job to be executed asynchronously.
+     *
+     * <p>The run method of the given job is called exactly once. If it terminates
+     * abnormally by throwing any Throwable, that is ignored.</p>
+     *
+     * @param job represents the body of some finalize method; must not be null.
+     */
+    public void add(Job job) {
+        synchronized (queue) {
+            boolean first = queue.isEmpty();
+            queue.add(job);
+            if (first) {
+                queue.notify();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void drain() throws InterruptedException {
+        synchronized (queue) {
+            done = true;
+            queue.notify();
+        }
+        // tdf#123481 Only join if we are not in our own thread, else we have a deadlock
+        if (Thread.currentThread() != thread)
+            thread.join();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * An interface to represent bodies of finalize methods.
+     *
+     * Similar to <code>Runnable</code>, except that the run method may throw any
+     * <code>Throwable</code> (which is effectively ignored by
+     * <code>AsynchronousFinalizer.add</code>, similar to any <code>Throwables</code>
+     * raised by finalize being ignored).
+    */
+    public interface Job {
+        void run() throws Throwable;
+    }
+
+    private final LinkedList<Job> queue = new LinkedList<Job>();
+    private final Thread thread;
+    private boolean done = false;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/DisposeListener.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/DisposeListener.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6fdde2a8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/DisposeListener.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.util;
+
+/**
+ * Counterpart to <code>DisposeNotifier</code>.
+ *
+ * @see DisposeNotifier
+ */
+public interface DisposeListener {
+    /**
+     * Callback fired by a <code>DisposeNotifier</code> once it is disposed.
+     *
+     * @param source the <code>DisposeNotifier</code> that fires the callback;
+     * will never be <code>null</code>
+     */
+    void notifyDispose(DisposeNotifier source);
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/DisposeNotifier.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/DisposeNotifier.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ebe0008d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/DisposeNotifier.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.util;
+
+/**
+ * Optional interface to be implemented by objects stored in a
+ * <code>WeakMap</code>.
+ *
+ * @see WeakMap
+ */
+public interface DisposeNotifier {
+    /**
+     * Adds a dispose listener, to be notified when this object is disposed.
+     *
+     * <p>It is unspecified what happens when the same listener is added
+     * multiple times.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>It is unspecified exactly when the <code>notifyDispose</code> callback
+     * is fired: immediately before the notifier is disposed, while it is in the
+     * process of disposing, or some time after it got disposed.  But even if
+     * adding a listener to an already disposed notifier, the listener must
+     * eventually receive a <code>notifyDispose</code> callback.</p>
+     *
+     * @param listener a dispose listener, to be notified when this object is
+     * disposed; must not be <code>null</code>
+     */
+    void addDisposeListener(DisposeListener listener);
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/NativeLibraryLoader.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/NativeLibraryLoader.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d255a71ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/NativeLibraryLoader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.util;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
+import com.sun.star.lib.unoloader.UnoClassLoader;
+
+/**
+ * Helper functions to locate and load native files.
+ *
+ * <p>The methods in this class are designed to find the requested resources in
+ * as many cases as possible.  They search various places, roughly from most
+ * specific to most general.  This works well if a component is known to bring
+ * with it a certain resource, and that resource has to be found.  However, it
+ * might not work very well in cases where you want to check whether a
+ * component brings with it a certain resource or not: a similarly named
+ * resource from another component might be found by the eager search
+ * algorithm.</p>
+ */
+public final class NativeLibraryLoader {
+    static {
+        // if it's some other class loader, then resolving the symbol
+        // Java_com_sun_star_bridges_jni_1uno_JNI_1proxy_dispatch_1call in
+        // java_uno will not work and result in UnsatisfiedLinkError
+        if (!(NativeLibraryLoader.class.getClassLoader() instanceof com.sun.star.lib.unoloader.UnoClassLoader)) {
+            System.err.println("warning: com.sun.star.lib.util.NativeLibraryLoader must be loaded by com.sun.star.lib.unoloader.UnoClassLoader for java_uno bridge to work (not a problem if this is using Java remote bridge or unit test)");
+        }
+    }
+    /**
+     * Load a system library, using a given class loader to locate the library.
+     *
+     * <p>This is similar to <code>System.loadLibrary</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param loader a class loader; may be null.
+     * @param libname the library name; how this name is mapped to a system
+     * library name is system dependent.
+     */
+    public static void loadLibrary(ClassLoader loader, String libname) {
+        String sysname = System.mapLibraryName(libname);
+        // At least Oracle's 1.7.0_51 now maps to .dylib rather than .jnilib:
+        if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Mac")
+            && sysname.endsWith(".dylib"))
+        {
+            sysname
+                = sysname.substring(0, sysname.length() - "dylib".length())
+                + "jnilib";
+        }
+        File path = getResource(loader, sysname);
+        if (path == null) {
+            // If the library cannot be found as a class loader resource, try
+            // the global System.loadLibrary as a last resort:
+            System.loadLibrary(libname);
+        } else {
+            System.load(path.getAbsolutePath());
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Locate a system resource, using a given class loader.
+     *
+     * <p>This is similar to <code>ClassLoader.getResource</code>, but only works
+     * for local resources (local files), and adds additional functionality for
+     * <code>URLClassLoaders</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param loader a class loader; may be null.
+     * @param name a resource name (that is, the name of a file).
+     * @return a File locating the resource, or null if the resource was not
+     * found.
+     */
+    public static File getResource(ClassLoader loader, String name) {
+        if (loader != null) {
+            File path = UrlToFileMapper.mapUrlToFile(loader.getResource(name));
+            if (path != null) {
+                return path;
+            }
+        }
+        // URLClassLoaders work on lists of URLs, which are typically URLs
+        // locating JAR files (scheme://auth/dir1/dir2/some.jar).  The following
+        // code looks for resource name beside the JAR file
+        // (scheme://auth/dir1/dir2/name) and one directory up
+        // (scheme://auth/dir1/name).  The second step is important in a typical
+        // OOo installation, where the JAR files are in the program/classes
+        // directory while the shared libraries are in the program directory.
+        if (!(loader instanceof URLClassLoader)) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        URL[] urls = ((URLClassLoader) loader).getURLs();
+        for (int i = 0; i < urls.length; ++i) {
+            File path = UrlToFileMapper.mapUrlToFile(urls[i]);
+            if (path != null) {
+                File dir = path.isDirectory() ? path : path.getParentFile();
+                if (dir != null) {
+                    path = new File(dir, name);
+                    if (path.exists()) {
+                        return path;
+                    }
+                    dir = dir.getParentFile();
+                    if (dir != null) {
+                        path = new File(dir, name);
+                        if (path.exists()) {
+                            return path;
+                        }
+                        // On macOS, dir is now the Resources dir,
+                        // we want to look in Frameworks
+                        if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Mac")
+                            && dir.getName().equals("Resources")) {
+                            dir = dir.getParentFile();
+                            path = new File(dir, "Frameworks/" + name);
+                            if (path.exists()) {
+                                return path;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private NativeLibraryLoader() {} // do not instantiate
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/StringHelper.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/StringHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de8b5253a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/StringHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.util;
+
+/**
+ * jurt.jar internal string helper methods.
+ */
+public final class StringHelper
+{
+    private StringHelper() {} // do not instantiate
+
+    public static String replace(String str, char from, String to) {
+        StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
+        for (int i = 0;;) {
+            int j = str.indexOf(from, i);
+            if (j == -1) {
+                b.append(str.substring(i));
+                break;
+            } else {
+                b.append(str.substring(i, j));
+                b.append(to);
+                i = j + 1;
+            }
+        }
+        return b.toString();
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/UrlToFileMapper.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/UrlToFileMapper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..131890f54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/UrlToFileMapper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+package com.sun.star.lib.util;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLEncoder;
+
+/**
+ * Maps Java URL representations to File representations, on any Java version.
+ *
+ * This used to be used to do URL to File mapping in pre-Java1.4 days, but since
+ * we now require Java 1.5, it is largely unnecessary.
+ *
+ * @since UDK 3.2.8
+ */
+public final class UrlToFileMapper {
+
+    /**
+     * Maps Java URL representations to File representations.
+     *
+     * @param url some URL, possibly null.
+     * @return a corresponding File, or null on failure.
+     */
+    public static File mapUrlToFile(URL url) {
+        if (url == null) {
+            return null;
+        } else {
+            try {
+                // where encodedUrl is url.toString(), but since that may contain
+                // unsafe characters (e.g., space, " "), it is encoded, as otherwise
+                // the URI constructor might throw java.net.URISyntaxException (in
+                // Java 1.5, URL.toURI might be used instead).
+                String encodedUrl = encode(url.toString());
+                URI uri = new URI(encodedUrl);
+                try {
+                    return new File(uri);
+                } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                    return null;
+                }
+            } catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(ex); // should never happen
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static String encode(String url) {
+        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(url.length());
+        for (int i = 0; i < url.length(); ++i) {
+            char c = url.charAt(i);
+            // The RFC 2732 <uric> characters: !$&'()*+,-./:;=?@[]_~ plus digits
+            // and letters; additionally, do not encode % again.
+            if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z' || c >= '?' && c <= '['
+                || c >= '$' && c <= ';' || c == '!' || c == '=' || c == ']'
+                || c == '_' || c == '~')
+            {
+                buf.append(c);
+            } else if (c == ' ') {
+                buf.append("%20");
+            } else {
+                try {
+                    String enc = URLEncoder.encode(Character.toString(c), "UTF-8");
+                    buf.append(enc);
+                } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e); // should never happen
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return buf.toString();
+    }
+
+    private UrlToFileMapper() {}
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/WeakMap.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/WeakMap.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f3b3b55a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/lib/util/WeakMap.java
@@ -0,0 +1,319 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.lib.util;
+
+import java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue;
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * A hash map that holds values of type <code>WeakReference</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>Like <code>HashMap</code>, this implementation provides all of the
+ * optional map operations, and permits the <code>null</code> key.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>Also like <code>HashMap</code>, this implementation is not synchronized.
+ * If multiple threads share an instance, and at least one of them executes any
+ * modifying operations on the <code>WeakMap</code>, they have to use external
+ * synchronization.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>Unlike other map implementations, <code>WeakMap</code> is asymmetric in
+ * that <code>put</code> expects the given value to be a plain object that is
+ * then wrapped in a <code>WeakReference</code>, while the occurrences of values
+ * in all other methods (<code>containsValue</code>, <code>entrySet</code>,
+ * <code>equals</code>, <code>get</code>, <code>hashCode</code>,
+ * <code>remove</code>, <code>values</code>, and also the return value of
+ * <code>put</code>) expect already wrapped instances of
+ * <code>WeakReference</code>.  That is, after <code>weakMap.put("key",
+ * o)</code>, <code>weakMap.get("key").equals(o)</code> does not work as
+ * na&iuml;vely expected; neither does
+ * <code>weakMap1.putAll(weakMap2)</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>At an arbitrary time after the <code>WeakReference</code> value of an
+ * entry has been cleared by the garbage collector, the entry is automatically
+ * removed from the map.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>Values placed into a <code>WeakMap</code> may optionally support the
+ * <code>DisposeNotifier</code> interface.  For those that do, the associated
+ * <code>WeakReference</code> wrappers are automatically cleared as soon as the
+ * values are disposed.</p>
+ *
+ * Note that this class does not actually implement the Map interface properly,
+ * the type of the return value of the entrySet and values methods is wrong,
+ * but the "implements Map" is retained for backward compatibility.
+ */
+public final class WeakMap<K,V> implements Map {
+
+    /**
+     * Declare the map as WeakReference instead of Entry because it makes the return
+     * type signatures of values() and keySet() cleaner.
+     */
+    private final HashMap<K, WeakReference<V>> map = new HashMap<K, WeakReference<V>>();
+    private final ReferenceQueue<V> queue = new ReferenceQueue<V>();
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs an empty <code>WeakMap</code>.
+     */
+    public WeakMap() {}
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>WeakMap</code> with the same mappings as the
+     * specified <code>Map</code>.
+     *
+     * @param m the map whose mappings are to be placed in this map
+     */
+    public WeakMap(Map<K,V> m) {
+        putAll(m);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the number of key&ndash;value mappings in this map.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a non-modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @return the number of key&ndash;value mappings in this map
+     */
+    public int size() {
+        return map.size();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns <code>true</code> if this map contains no key&ndash;value
+     * mappings.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a non-modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @return <code>true</code> if this map contains no key&ndash;value
+     * mappings
+     */
+    public boolean isEmpty() {
+        return map.isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns <code>true</code> if this map contains a mapping for the
+     * specified key.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a non-modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @param key the key whose presence in this map is to be tested
+     * @return <code>true</code> if this map contains a mapping for the
+     * specified key
+     */
+    public boolean containsKey(/*K*/ Object key) {
+        return map.containsKey(key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns <code>true</code> if this map maps one or more keys to the
+     * specified value.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a non-modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @param value the value whose presence in this map is to be tested
+     * @return <code>true</code> if this map maps one or more keys to the
+     * specified value
+     */
+    public boolean containsValue(Object /*WeakReference<V>*/ value) {
+        return map.containsValue(value);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the value to which the specified key is mapped in this map, or
+     * <code>null</code> if the map contains no mapping for this key.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a non-modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @param key the key whose associated value is to be returned
+     *
+     * @return the value to which this map maps the specified key, or
+     * <code>null</code> if the map contains no mapping for this key
+     */
+    public WeakReference<V> get(/*K*/ Object key) {
+        return map.get(key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Associates the specified value with the specified key in this map.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @param key the key with which the specified value is to be associated
+     * @param value the value to be associated with the specified key.  This
+     * must be a plain object, which is then wrapped in a
+     * <code>WeakReference</code>.
+     * @return previous value associated with the specified key, or
+     * <code>null</code> if there was no mapping for the key
+     */
+    public Object /*WeakReference<V>*/ put(/*K*/ Object key, /*V*/ Object value) {
+        cleanUp();
+        return map.put((K) key, new Entry<K,V>((K) key, (V) value, queue));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Removes the mapping for this key from this map if present.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @param key the key whose mapping is to be removed from the map
+     * @return previous value associated with the specified key, or
+     * <code>null</code> if there was no mapping for the key
+     */
+    public Object /*WeakReference<V>*/ remove(/*K*/ Object key) {
+        cleanUp();
+        return map.remove(key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Copies all of the mappings from the specified map to this map.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @param m mappings to be stored in this map.  The values of those mappings
+     * must be plain objects, which are then wrapped in instances of
+     * <code>WeakReference</code>.
+     */
+    public void putAll(Map/*<K,V>*/ m) {
+        cleanUp();
+        for (Iterator<Map.Entry<K,V>> i = m.entrySet().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+            Map.Entry<K,V> e = i.next();
+            K k = e.getKey();
+            map.put(k, new Entry<K,V>(k, e.getValue(), queue));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Removes all mappings from this map.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a modifying operation.</p>
+     */
+    public void clear() {
+        cleanUp();
+        map.clear();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a view of the keys contained in this map.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a non-modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @return a set view of the keys contained in this map
+     */
+    public Set<K> keySet() {
+        return map.keySet();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a collection view of the values contained in this map.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a non-modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @return a collection view of the values contained in this map
+     */
+    public Collection<WeakReference<V>> values() {
+        return map.values();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a collection view of the mappings contained in this map.
+     *
+     * <p>This is a non-modifying operation.</p>
+     *
+     * @return a collection view of the mappings contained in this map
+     */
+    public Set/*<Map.Entry<K,WeakReference<V>>>*/ entrySet() {
+        return map.entrySet();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object o) {
+        return map.equals(o);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return map.hashCode();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the referent of a <code>WeakReference</code>, silently handling a
+     * <code>null</code> argument.
+     *
+     * <p>This static method is useful to wrap around the return values of
+     * methods like <code>get</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param ref must be either an instance of <code>WeakReference</code> or
+     * <code>null</code>
+     * @return the referent of the specified <code>WeakReference</code>, or
+     * <code>null</code> if <code>ref</code> is <code>null</code>
+     */
+    public static <T> T getValue(Object /*WeakReference<T>*/ ref) {
+        return ref == null ? null : ((WeakReference<T>) ref).get();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * cleanUp() must only be called from within modifying methods.  Otherwise,
+     * the implementations of entrySet, keySet and values would break
+     * (Specifically, iterating over the collections returned by those
+     * methods), as non-modifying methods might modify the underlying map.
+     **/
+    private void cleanUp() {
+        for (;;) {
+            Entry<K,V> e = (Entry<K,V>) queue.poll();
+            if (e == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+            // It is possible that an Entry e1 becomes weakly reachable, then
+            // another Entry e2 is added to the map for the same key, and only
+            // then e1 is enqueued.  To not erroneously remove the new e2 in
+            // that case, check whether the map still contains e1:
+            Object k = e.key;
+            if (e == map.get(k)) {
+                map.remove(k);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final class Entry<K,V> extends WeakReference<V>
+        implements DisposeListener
+    {
+        private final K key;
+
+        private Entry(K key, V value, ReferenceQueue<V> queue) {
+            super(value, queue);
+            this.key = key;
+            if (value instanceof DisposeNotifier) {
+                ((DisposeNotifier) value).addDisposeListener(this);
+            }
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @see DisposeListener#notifyDispose(DisposeNotifier)
+         */
+        public void notifyDispose(DisposeNotifier source) {
+            clear();
+            enqueue();
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Any.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Any.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2f4976436
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Any.java
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+
+/**
+ * The UNO IDL type any is mapped to java type <code>java.lang.Object</code>.
+ * <p>
+ * In special cases it is necessary to have an explicit any to additionally transport
+ * an exact type. For instance if you want to pass an object reference via
+ * an interprocess connection using an any, you should use this class to add
+ * an explicit interface type, so the remote counterpart doesn't need to invoke
+ * a queryInterface).
+ * </p>
+ */
+public class Any {
+    /**
+     * The type of the any.
+     *
+     * @see #getType
+     */
+    protected Type  _type;
+
+    /**
+     * The data of the any.
+     *
+     * @see #getObject
+     */
+    protected Object _object;
+
+    public static final Any VOID = new Any(new Type("void", TypeClass.VOID),
+                                           null);
+        // do not use Type.VOID here to avoid circular dependencies between
+        // static members of Any and Type
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new any.
+     *
+     * @param   zInterface  the type of the any.
+     * @param   object      the data of the any.
+     * @deprecated as of UDK 2.0
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public Any(Class<?> zInterface, Object object) {
+        this(new Type(zInterface), object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new any with a given type and value
+     *
+     * @param type the UNO type of the any.
+     * @param object the value of the any.
+     */
+    public Any(Type type, Object object) {
+        if (type.equals(Type.ANY)) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Any cannot contain Any");
+        }
+        _type   = type;
+        _object = object;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Complete a UNO <code>ANY</code> (make sure it is wrapped up as an
+     * <code>Any</code> instance).
+     *
+     * @param any a Java value representing a UNO <code>ANY</code> value.
+     * @return a complete Java value (that is, an <code>Any</code> instance)
+     * representing the same UNO <code>ANY</code> value as the given argument.
+     * @since UDK 3.2.3
+    */
+    public static final Any complete(Object any) {
+        return any instanceof Any
+            ? (Any) any
+            : new Any(
+                new Type(any == null ? XInterface.class : any.getClass()), any);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the type of the value within the any.
+     *
+     * @return the type of the value within the any.
+     */
+    public Type getType() {
+        return _type;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the value within the any.
+     *
+     * @return gets the value within the any.
+     */
+    public Object getObject() {
+        return _object;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Indicates whether some other object is equal to this one.
+     *
+     * @param obj the reference object with which to compare.
+     * @return <code>true</code> if this object is the same as the obj argument;
+     * <code>false</code> otherwise.
+     * @see java.lang.Object#equals
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        return obj instanceof Any && _type.equals(((Any) obj)._type)
+            && (_object == null
+                ? ((Any) obj)._object == null
+                : _object.equals(((Any) obj)._object));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a hash code value for the object.
+     *
+     * @return a hash code value for this object.
+     * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return _type.hashCode() * 13
+            + (_object == null ? 0 : _object.hashCode());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a string representation of the object.
+     *
+     * @return a string representation of the object.
+     * @see java.lang.Object#toString
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "Any[" + _type + ", " + _object + "]";
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/AnyConverter.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/AnyConverter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d36542e1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/AnyConverter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,668 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+/**
+ * This class provides static methods which aim at exploring the contents of an
+ * Any and extracting its value.
+ *
+ * <p>All public methods take an Object argument that either is the immediate object,
+ * such as Boolean, Type, interface implementation, or an Any that contains an
+ * object.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>The methods which extract the value do a widening conversion. See the
+ * method comments for the respective conversions.</p>
+ */
+public class AnyConverter
+{
+    /**
+     * Determines the type of an Any object.
+     *
+     * @param object any object.
+     * @return type object.
+     */
+    public static Type getType( Object object )
+    {
+        Type t;
+        if (null == object)
+        {
+            t = m_XInterface_type;
+        }
+        else if (object instanceof Any)
+        {
+            t = ((Any)object).getType();
+            // nested any
+            if (TypeClass.ANY_value == t.getTypeClass().getValue())
+                return getType( ((Any)object).getObject() );
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            t = new Type( object.getClass() );
+        }
+        return t;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains the idl type <code>void</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any is void, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isVoid(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.VOID, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>char</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a char, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isChar(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.CHAR, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>boolean</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a boolean, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isBoolean(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.BOOLEAN, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>byte</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a byte, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isByte(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.BYTE, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>short</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a short, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isShort(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.SHORT, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>long</code>
+     * (which maps to a java-int).
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a int, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isInt(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.LONG, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>hyper</code>
+     * (which maps to a java-long).
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a long, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isLong(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.HYPER, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>float</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a float, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isFloat(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.FLOAT, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>double</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a double, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isDouble(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.DOUBLE, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>string</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a string, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isString(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.STRING, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>enum</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true if the any contains an enum, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isEnum(Object object)
+    {
+        return containsType(TypeClass.ENUM, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains a value of the idl type <code>type</code>.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains a type, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isType(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.TYPE, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains an interface, struct, exception, sequence or enum.
+     *
+     * <p>If <em>object</em> is an any with an interface type, then true is also
+     * returned if the any contains a null reference. This is because interfaces
+     * are allowed to have a null value contrary to other UNO types.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true if the any contains an object.
+     */
+    public static boolean isObject(Object object)
+    {
+        int tc = getType(object).getTypeClass().getValue();
+        return (TypeClass.INTERFACE_value == tc ||
+                TypeClass.STRUCT_value == tc ||
+                TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value == tc ||
+                TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value == tc ||
+                TypeClass.ENUM_value == tc);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if the any contains UNO idl sequence value (meaning a java array
+     * containing elements which are values of UNO idl types).
+     *
+     * @param object the object to check.
+     * @return true when the any contains an object which implements interfaces,
+     * false otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean isArray(Object object){
+        return containsType(TypeClass.SEQUENCE, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a Char object or an Any object containing a Char object into a
+     * simple char.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @return the char contained within the object.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no char is
+     * contained within object.
+     *
+     * @see #isChar
+     */
+    public static char toChar(Object object) throws  com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException{
+        Character ret= (Character)convertSimple(TypeClass.CHAR, null, object);
+        return ret.charValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a Boolean object or an Any object containing a Boolean object
+     * into a simple boolean.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @return the boolean contained within the object
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no boolean is
+     * contained within object
+     *
+     * @see #isBoolean
+    */
+    public static boolean toBoolean(Object object) throws  com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException{
+        Boolean ret= (Boolean)convertSimple(TypeClass.BOOLEAN, null, object);
+        return ret.booleanValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a Byte object or an Any object containing a Byte object into a
+     * simple byte.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @return the boolean contained within the object.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no byte is
+     * contained within object.
+     *
+     * @see #isBoolean
+     */
+    public static byte toByte(Object object) throws   com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException{
+        Byte ret= (Byte)convertSimple(TypeClass.BYTE, null, object);
+        return ret.byteValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a number object into a simple short and allows widening conversions.
+     *
+     * <p>Allowed argument types are Byte, Short or Any containing these types.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no short or
+     * byte is contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return the short contained within the object.
+     */
+    public static short toShort(Object object) throws   com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException{
+        Short ret= (Short)convertSimple(TypeClass.SHORT, null, object);
+        return ret.shortValue();
+    }
+    /**
+     * Converts a number object into an idl unsigned short and allows widening
+     * conversions.
+     *
+     * <p>Allowed argument types are Anies containing idl unsigned short values.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no idl unsigned
+     * short is contained within Any.
+     *
+     * @return an (unsigned) short.
+     */
+    public static short toUnsignedShort(Object object)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        Short ret= (Short)convertSimple(TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT, null, object);
+        return ret.shortValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a number object into a simple int and allows widening conversions.
+     *
+     * <p>Allowed argument types are Byte, Short, Integer or Any containing these
+     * types.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no short, byte
+     * or int is contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return the int contained within the object.
+     */
+    public static int toInt(Object object) throws  com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException{
+        Integer ret= (Integer) convertSimple( TypeClass.LONG, null, object);
+        return ret.intValue();
+    }
+    /**
+     * Converts a number object into an idl unsigned long and allows widening
+     * conversions.
+     *
+     * <p>Allowed argument types are Anies containing idl unsigned short or
+     * unsigned long values.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no idl unsigned
+     * short nor unsigned long is contained within Any.
+     *
+     * @return an (unsigned) int.
+     */
+    public static int toUnsignedInt(Object object)
+        throws  com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        Integer ret = (Integer)convertSimple(TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG, null, object);
+        return ret.intValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a number object into a simple long and allows widening conversions.
+     *
+     * <p>Allowed argument types are Byte, Short, Integer, Long or Any containing
+     * these types.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no short, byte,
+     * int or long is contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return the long contained within the object.
+     */
+    public static long toLong(Object object) throws   com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException{
+        Long ret= (Long) convertSimple( TypeClass.HYPER, null, object);
+        return ret.longValue();
+    }
+    /**
+     * Converts a number object into an idl unsigned hyper and allows widening
+     * conversions.
+     *
+     * <p>Allowed argument types are Anies containing idl unsigned short, unsigned
+     * long or unsigned hyper values.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no idl unsigned
+     * short, nor unsigned long nor unsigned hyper is contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return an (unsigned) long.
+     */
+    public static long toUnsignedLong(Object object)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        Long ret = (Long)convertSimple(TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER, null, object);
+        return ret.longValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a number object into a simple float and allows widening conversions.
+     *
+     * <p>Allowed argument types are Byte, Short, Float or Any containing these
+     * types.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no byte, short
+     * or float is contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return the float contained within the object.
+     */
+    public static float toFloat(Object object) throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException{
+        Float ret= (Float) convertSimple( TypeClass.FLOAT,null, object);
+        return ret.floatValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a number object into a simple double and allows widening conversions.
+     *
+     * <p>Allowed argument types are Byte, Short, Int, Float, Double or Any
+     * containing these types.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no byte, short,
+     * int, float or double is contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return the double contained within the object.
+     */
+    public static double toDouble(Object object) throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+        Double ret= (Double) convertSimple( TypeClass.DOUBLE, null, object);
+        return ret.doubleValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a string or an any containing a string into a string.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no string is
+     * contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return the string contained within the object.
+     */
+    public static String toString(Object object) throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+        return (String) convertSimple( TypeClass.STRING, null, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a Type or an any containing a Type into a Type.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no type is
+     * contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return the type contained within the object.
+     */
+    public static Type toType(Object object) throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+        return (Type) convertSimple( TypeClass.TYPE, null, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a UNO object (struct, exception, sequence, enum or interface) or
+     * an Any containing these types into a UNO object of a specified destination
+     * type.
+     *
+     * <p> For interfaces, the argument <em>object</em> is queried for the interface
+     * specified by the <em>type</em> argument.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>That query (UnoRuntime.queryInterface) might return null, if the interface
+     * is not implemented or a null-ref or a VOID any is given.</p>
+     *
+     * @param type type of the returned value.
+     * @param object the object that is to be converted.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case conversion is
+     * not possible.
+     *
+     * @return destination object.
+     */
+    public static Object toObject(Type type, Object object)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        return convertSimple( type.getTypeClass(), type, object );
+    }
+    /**
+     * Converts a UNO object (struct, exception, sequence, enum or interface) or
+     * an Any containing these types into a UNO object of a specified destination
+     * type.
+     *
+     * <p>For interfaces, the argument <em>object</em> is queried for the interface
+     * specified by the <em>type</em> argument. That query (UnoRuntime.queryInterface)
+     * might return null, if the interface is not implemented or a null-ref or a
+     * VOID any is given.</p>
+     *
+     * @param clazz class of the returned value.
+     * @param object the object that is to be converted.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case conversion is
+     * not possible.
+     *
+     * @return destination object.
+     */
+    public static Object toObject(Class<?> clazz, Object object)
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        return toObject( new Type( clazz ), object );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts an array or an any containing an array into an array.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to convert.
+     * @throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case no array is
+     * contained within object.
+     *
+     * @return the array contained within the object.
+     */
+    public static Object toArray( Object object) throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException {
+        return convertSimple( TypeClass.SEQUENCE, null, object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Examines the argument <em>object</em> if is correspond to the type in
+     * argument <em>what</em>.
+     *
+     * <p><em>object</em> is either matched directly against the type or if it is
+     * an any then the contained object is matched against the type.</p>
+     */
+    private static boolean containsType( TypeClass what, Object object){
+        return (getType(object).getTypeClass().getValue() == what.getValue());
+    }
+
+    private static final Type m_XInterface_type = new Type( XInterface.class );
+
+    private static Object convertSimple( TypeClass destTClass, Type destType, Object object_ )
+        throws com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
+    {
+        Object object;
+        Type type;
+        if (object_ instanceof Any) {
+            // unbox
+            Any a = (Any)object_;
+            object = a.getObject();
+            type = a.getType();
+            // nested any
+            if (TypeClass.ANY_value == type.getTypeClass().getValue())
+                return convertSimple( destTClass, destType, object );
+        } else {
+            object = object_;
+            type = (null == object ? m_XInterface_type : new Type( object.getClass() ));
+        }
+
+        int tc = type.getTypeClass().getValue();
+        int dest_tc = destTClass.getValue();
+
+        if (null == object) {
+            // special for interfaces
+            if (TypeClass.INTERFACE_value == tc && dest_tc == tc)
+                return null;
+        } else {
+            switch (dest_tc) {
+            case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+                if (tc == TypeClass.CHAR_value)
+                    return object;
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+                if (tc == TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value)
+                    return object;
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+                if (tc == TypeClass.BYTE_value)
+                    return object;
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+                switch (tc) {
+                case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+                    return Short.valueOf( ((Byte)object).byteValue() );
+                case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                switch (tc) {
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+                switch (tc) {
+                case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+                    return Integer.valueOf( ((Byte)object).byteValue() );
+                case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                    return Integer.valueOf( ((Short)object).shortValue() );
+                case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+                switch (tc) {
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                    return Integer.valueOf( ((Short)object).shortValue() );
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+                switch (tc) {
+                case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+                    return Long.valueOf( ((Byte)object).byteValue() );
+                case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                    return Long.valueOf( ((Short)object).shortValue() );
+                case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+                    return Long.valueOf( ((Integer)object).intValue() );
+                case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+                switch (tc) {
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+                    return Long.valueOf( ((Short)object).shortValue() );
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+                    return Long.valueOf( ((Integer)object).intValue() );
+                case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+                switch (tc) {
+                case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+                    return new Float( ((Byte)object).byteValue() );
+                case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+                    return new Float( ((Short)object).shortValue() );
+                case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+                switch (tc) {
+                case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+                    return new Double( ((Byte)object).byteValue() );
+                case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+                    return new Double( ((Short)object).shortValue() );
+                case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+                    return new Double( ((Integer)object).intValue() );
+                case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+                    return new Double( ((Float)object).floatValue() );
+                case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+                if (tc == TypeClass.ENUM_value &&
+                    (null == destType || destType.equals( type ) /* optional destType */))
+                {
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+                if (tc == TypeClass.STRING_value)
+                    return object;
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+                if (tc == TypeClass.TYPE_value)
+                    return object;
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+                // Because object is a class, not an interface, it is
+                // controversial what kind of Type "new Type(object.class)"
+                // above should return (UNKNOWN or INTERFACE), so that we should
+                // not check here for "tc == TypeClass.INTERFACE_value".
+                // Instead, we check whether object (indirectly) derives from
+                // XInterface:
+                if (object instanceof XInterface)
+                    return UnoRuntime.queryInterface( destType, object );
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+            case TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value:
+                if (destType.isSupertypeOf(type)) {
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+                if (tc == TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value &&
+                    (null == destType || destType.equals( type ) /* optional destType */))
+                {
+                    return object;
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        throw new com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException(
+            "The Argument did not hold the proper type");
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Ascii.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Ascii.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce5108893
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Ascii.java
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+/**
+ * The Ascii class represents the IDL build in type <code>ascii</code>.
+ *
+ * @deprecated do not use.
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public final class Ascii {
+    public final char ascii;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Ascii</code>.
+     *
+     * @deprecated do not use.
+     * @param   c  the char value.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public Ascii(char c) {
+        ascii = c;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/AsciiString.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/AsciiString.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b744c5a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/AsciiString.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+/**
+ * The Ascii class represents the IDL build in type <code>asciistring</code>.
+ *
+ * @deprecated do not use.
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public final class AsciiString {
+    public final String asciistring;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>AsciiString</code>.
+     *
+     * @deprecated do not use.
+     * @param   s  the String value.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public AsciiString(String s) {
+        asciistring = s;
+    }
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Enum.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Enum.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8bd50876d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Enum.java
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+/**
+ * The Enum class is the base class for all classes generated
+ * as java binding for the IDL type enum.
+ * <p>
+ * Each java mapped enum class provides static member of this class
+ * which represents the enum values.
+ * You cannot create an object of this class or subclass direct, to
+ * avoid enum values with integer values outside the defined range.
+ * </p>
+ */
+public abstract class Enum {
+    private final int m_value;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs an enum value.
+     * @param  value   the integer value of this enum value.
+     */
+    protected Enum(int value) {
+        m_value = value;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the integer value of an enum value.
+     * @return   the integer value.
+     */
+    public final int getValue() {
+        return m_value;
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IBridge.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IBridge.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51babcdfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IBridge.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * This is abstract interface for bridges.
+ *
+ * <p>Bridges are able to map one object from one UNO environment to another and
+ * vice versa.<p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IQueryInterface
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime
+ *
+ * @deprecated As of UDK 3.2, this interface is deprecated, without offering a
+ * replacement.
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface IBridge {
+    /**
+     * Maps an object from the source environment to the destination
+     * environment.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to map
+     * @param type the type of the interface that shall be mapped
+     * @return the object in the destination environment
+     */
+    Object mapInterfaceTo(Object object, Type type);
+
+    /**
+     * Maps an object from the destination environment to the source
+     * environment.
+     *
+     * @param object the object to map
+     * @param type the type of the interface that shall be mapped
+     * @return the object in the source environment
+     */
+    Object mapInterfaceFrom(Object object, Type type);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the source environment.
+     *
+     * @return the source environment of this bridge
+     */
+    IEnvironment getSourceEnvironment();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the destination environment.
+     *
+     * @return the destination environment of this bridge
+     */
+    IEnvironment getTargetEnvironment();
+
+    /**
+     * Increases the life count.
+     */
+    void acquire();
+
+    /**
+     * Decreases the life count.
+     *
+     * <p>If the life count drops to zero, the bridge disposes itself.</p>
+     */
+    void release();
+
+    /**
+     * Disposes the bridge.
+     *
+     * <p>Sends involved threads an <code>InterruptedException</code>.  Releases
+     * mapped objects.</p>
+     *
+     * @throws InterruptedException it's deprecated so who cares.
+     * @throws IOException it's deprecated so who cares.
+     */
+    void dispose() throws InterruptedException, IOException;
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IEnvironment.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IEnvironment.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5d3289305
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IEnvironment.java
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+/**
+ * The interface implemented by UNO environments.
+ *
+ * <p>With this interface, objects can be registered at and revoked from an
+ * environment.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IQueryInterface
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime
+ *
+ * @deprecated As of UDK 3.2, this interface is deprecated, without offering a
+ * replacement.
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface IEnvironment {
+    /**
+     * Gets the context of this environment.
+     *
+     * @return the context of this environment
+     */
+    Object getContext();
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the name of this environment.
+     *
+     * @return the name of this environment
+     */
+    String getName();
+
+    /**
+     * Registers one UNO interface facet of an object.
+     *
+     * <p>Such an object will typically be one of three things:
+     * <ul>
+     * <li>A local Java object, to be mapped out of this environment via a given
+     *     bridge.</li>
+     * <li>A proxy object, mapped into this environment via some bridge
+     *     <var>B1</var>, and now to be mapped out of this environment via a
+     *     given bridge <var>B2</var>.</li>
+     * <li>A proxy object, created as a remote object is mapped into this
+     *     environment via a given bridge.</li>
+     * </ul>
+     *
+     * <p>The object actually registered may differ from the specified
+     * <code>object</code> that is passed as an argument.  This enables an
+     * environment to work in a multi-threaded scenario, where two threads can
+     * call <code>registerInterface</code> for the same combination of
+     * <code>oid</code> and <code>type</code> at the same time; the race
+     * condition is solved by letting one of the calls register its argument
+     * <code>object</code>, ignoring the argument <code>object</code> of the
+     * other call, and letting both calls return the same
+     * <code>object</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>The registered object is held only weakly by the environment.  After a
+     * call to <code>registerInterface</code>, a call to
+     * <code>getRegisteredInterface</code> only succeeds as long as the
+     * registered object is still strongly reachable, and the registered object
+     * has not been explicitly revoked by calling
+     * <code>revokeInterface</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object the object to register; must be non-null
+     * @param oid in-out parameter containing the OID of <code>object</code>.
+     *    This must be a non-null reference to an array of length at least one;
+     *    the zeroth element is used to pass the argument in and out.  If the
+     *    zeroth element is null on input, the OID will be computed and passed
+     *    out (that is, the zeroth element will never be null upon normal
+     *    return).
+     * @param type the UNO interface type to register.  This argument must be
+     *    non-null, and must denote a UNO interface type.  The given
+     *    <code>object</code> should implement this <code>type</code>.
+     * @return the registered object (may differ from the <code>object</code>
+     *     passed in); will never be null
+     */
+    Object registerInterface(Object object, String[] oid, Type type);
+
+    /**
+     * Explicitly revokes a UNO interface facet.
+     *
+     * <p>Calls to <code>registerInterface</code> and
+     * <code>revokeInterface</code> must be paired.  A facet is only removed
+     * from the environment when it has been revoked as often as it has been
+     * registered.  This may change in the future, so that a facet would be
+     * removed upon the first call to <code>revokeInterface</code> (and calls to
+     * <code>revokeInterface</code> would no longer be necessary if the calling
+     * code does not want to control the temporal extent of the
+     * registration).</p>
+     *
+     * <p>It is not an error if the specified facet is not registered at this
+     * environment (either because no corresponding object has ever been
+     * registered, or it has been explicitly revoked, or it is no longer
+     * strongly reachable).  In such a case, this method simply does
+     * nothing.</p>
+     *
+     * @param oid the OID of the object to revoke; must be non-null
+     * @param type the UNO interface type of the object to revoke.  This
+     *     argument must be non-null, and must denote a UNO interface type.
+     */
+    void revokeInterface(String oid, Type type);
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves a registered object, specified by OID and UNO interface type.
+     *
+     * @param oid the OID of the object to retrieve; must be non-null
+     * @param type the UNO interface type of the object to retrieve.  This
+     *     argument must be non-null, and must denote a UNO interface type.
+     * @return the registered object, or null if none is found
+     */
+    Object getRegisteredInterface(String oid, Type type);
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves the OID for a registered object.
+     *
+     * @param object a registered object; must be non-null
+     * @return the OID of the <code>object</code>; will never be null
+     */
+    String getRegisteredObjectIdentifier(Object object);
+
+    /**
+     * Lists the registered objects to <code>System.out</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>This is for debug purposes.</p>
+     */
+    void list();
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IMapping.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IMapping.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fdf6d8207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IMapping.java
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+/**
+ * With a mapping objects can be mapped from one environment to another.
+ *
+ * <p>This interface exists for compatibility with the binary UNO API.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge
+ *
+ * @deprecated As of UDK 3.2, this interface is deprecated, without offering a
+ * replacement.
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface IMapping {
+    /**
+     * Maps an interface from one environment to another.
+     *
+     * @param object source object that is to be mapped
+     * @param type description of the interface that is to be mapped
+     * @return the object mapped to the destination environment
+     */
+    Object mapInterface(Object object, Type type);
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IQueryInterface.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IQueryInterface.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7857d6205
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/IQueryInterface.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+/**
+ * This is the delegator interface for Java objects implementing interfaces of
+ * an underlying UNO object.
+ *
+ * <p>Calls are delegated through the <code>UnoRuntime</code> to this
+ * interface.  Implement this interface in case you want to customize the
+ * behaviour of <code>UnoRuntime.queryInterface</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime
+ */
+public interface IQueryInterface {
+    /**
+     * Returns the unique object identifier (OID) of the underlying UNO object.
+     *
+     * @return the OID of the underlying object
+     */
+    String getOid();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an object implementing the requested interface type.
+     *
+     * @param type the requested UNO interface type; must be a <code>Type</code>
+     * object representing a UNO interface type
+     * @return a reference to the requested UNO interface type if available,
+     * otherwise <code>null</code>
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime
+     */
+    Object queryInterface(Type type);
+
+    /**
+     * Tests if the given reference represents a facet of the underlying UNO
+     * object.
+     *
+     * @param object a reference to any Java object representing (a facet of) a
+     * UNO object; may be <code>null</code>
+     * @return <code>true</code> if and only if <code>object</code> is not
+     * <code>null</code> and represents the same UNO object as this object
+     */
+    boolean isSame(Object object);
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/MappingException.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/MappingException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7670a790a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/MappingException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+
+/**
+ * The mapping Exception.
+ *
+ * <p>The exception is replaced by the com.sun.star.lang.DisposedException.</p>
+ *
+ * @see         com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime
+ * @see         com.sun.star.uno.IQueryInterface
+ * @see         com.sun.star.uno.IBridge
+ *
+ * @deprecated since UDK 3.0.2
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public class MappingException extends com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException {
+    /**
+     * Constructs an empty <code>MappingException</code>.
+     */
+    public MappingException() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs an <code>MappingException</code> with a detail message.
+     *
+     * @param  message   the detail message.
+     */
+    public MappingException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs an <code>MappingException</code> with a detail message and a
+     * context.
+     *
+     * @param  message   the detail message.
+     * @param  context   the context.
+     */
+    public MappingException(String message, Object context) {
+        super(message, context);
+    }
+}
+
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Type.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Type.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0589b64cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/Type.java
@@ -0,0 +1,699 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+
+/**
+ * Represents the UNO built-in type <code>TYPE</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>The UNO type is not directly mapped to <code>java.lang.Class</code> for at
+ * least two reasons.  For one, some UNO types (like <code>UNSIGNED
+ * SHORT</code>) do not have a matching Java class.  For another, it can be
+ * necessary to describe a type which is unknown to the Java runtime system
+ * (for example, for delaying the need of a class, so that it is possible to
+ * generate it on the fly.)</p>
+ *
+ * <p>A <code>Type</code> is uniquely determined by its type class (a
+ * <code>TypeClass</code>) and its type name (a <code>String</code>); these two
+ * will never be <code>null</code>.  A <code>Type</code> may have an additional
+ * "z class" (a <code>java.lang.Class</code>), giving a Java class type that
+ * corresponds to the UNO type.  Also, a <code>Type</code> can cache a type
+ * description (a <code>com.sun.star.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription</code>), which can be
+ * computed and set by <code>TypeDescription.getTypeDescription</code>.
+ */
+public class Type {
+    // The following private static members and static initializer must come
+    // first in the class definition, so that the class can be initialized
+    // successfully:
+
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_VOID = "void";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_BOOLEAN = "boolean";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_BYTE = "byte";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_SHORT = "short";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_SHORT = "unsigned short";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_LONG = "long";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_LONG = "unsigned long";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_HYPER = "hyper";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_HYPER = "unsigned hyper";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_FLOAT = "float";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_DOUBLE = "double";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_CHAR = "char";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_STRING = "string";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_TYPE = "type";
+    private static final String TYPE_NAME_ANY = "any";
+
+    // must be sorted same as TypeClass:
+    private static final String[] __typeClassToTypeName = new String[] {
+        TYPE_NAME_VOID,
+        TYPE_NAME_CHAR,
+        TYPE_NAME_BOOLEAN,
+        TYPE_NAME_BYTE,
+        TYPE_NAME_SHORT,
+        TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_SHORT,
+        TYPE_NAME_LONG,
+        TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_LONG,
+        TYPE_NAME_HYPER,
+        TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_HYPER,
+        TYPE_NAME_FLOAT,
+        TYPE_NAME_DOUBLE,
+        TYPE_NAME_STRING,
+        TYPE_NAME_TYPE,
+        TYPE_NAME_ANY
+    };
+
+    private static final class TypeInfo {
+        TypeInfo(
+            TypeClass thePrimary, TypeClass theAlternative,
+            boolean theSequenceComponentType)
+        {
+            primary = thePrimary;
+            alternative = theAlternative;
+            sequenceComponentType = theSequenceComponentType;
+        }
+
+        final TypeClass primary;
+        final TypeClass alternative;
+        final boolean sequenceComponentType;
+    }
+
+    private static final HashMap<Class<?>, TypeInfo> __javaClassToTypeClass =
+        new HashMap<Class<?>, TypeInfo>();
+    static {
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            void.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.VOID, TypeClass.VOID, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Void.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.VOID, TypeClass.VOID, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            boolean.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.BOOLEAN, TypeClass.BOOLEAN, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Boolean.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.BOOLEAN, TypeClass.BOOLEAN, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            byte.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.BYTE, TypeClass.BYTE, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Byte.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.BYTE, TypeClass.BYTE, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            short.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.SHORT, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Short.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.SHORT, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            int.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.LONG, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Integer.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.LONG, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            long.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.HYPER, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Long.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.HYPER, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            float.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.FLOAT, TypeClass.FLOAT, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Float.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.FLOAT, TypeClass.FLOAT, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            double.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.DOUBLE, TypeClass.DOUBLE, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Double.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.DOUBLE, TypeClass.DOUBLE, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            char.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.CHAR, TypeClass.CHAR, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Character.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.CHAR, TypeClass.CHAR, false));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            String.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.STRING, TypeClass.STRING, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Type.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.TYPE, TypeClass.TYPE, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Any.class, new TypeInfo(TypeClass.ANY, TypeClass.ANY, true));
+        __javaClassToTypeClass.put(
+            Object.class,
+            new TypeInfo(TypeClass.ANY, TypeClass.INTERFACE, true));
+    }
+
+    public static final Type VOID = new Type(void.class);
+    public static final Type CHAR = new Type(char.class);
+    public static final Type BOOLEAN = new Type(boolean.class);
+    public static final Type BYTE = new Type(byte.class);
+    public static final Type SHORT = new Type(short.class);
+    public static final Type UNSIGNED_SHORT = new Type(
+        TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_SHORT, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT);
+    public static final Type LONG = new Type(int.class);
+    public static final Type UNSIGNED_LONG = new Type(
+        TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_LONG, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG);
+    public static final Type HYPER = new Type(long.class);
+    public static final Type UNSIGNED_HYPER = new Type(
+        TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_HYPER, TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER);
+    public static final Type FLOAT = new Type(float.class);
+    public static final Type DOUBLE = new Type(double.class);
+    public static final Type STRING = new Type(String.class);
+    public static final Type TYPE = new Type(Type.class);
+    public static final Type ANY = new Type(Any.class);
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Type</code> which defaults to <code>VOID</code>.
+     */
+    public Type() {
+        init(null, void.class, false, false, false);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Type</code> with the given type class and type
+     * name.
+     *
+     * @param typeName the type name.  Must not be <code>null</code>.
+     * @param typeClass the type class.  Must not be <code>null</code>, and must
+     *     match the <code>typeName</code> (for example, it is illegal to
+     *     combine a <code>typeName</code> of <code>"void"</code> with a
+     *     <code>typeClass</code> of <code>BOOLEAN</code>).
+     */
+    public Type(String typeName, TypeClass typeClass) {
+        _typeClass = typeClass;
+        _typeName = typeName;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Type</code> from the given
+     * <code>java.lang.Class</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>This is equivalent to <code>Type(zClass, false)</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param zClass the Java class of this type.  Must not be
+     *     <code>null</code>.
+     */
+    public Type(Class<?> zClass) {
+        init(null, zClass, false, false, false);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Type</code> from the given
+     * <code>java.lang.Class</code>, handling ambiguous cases.
+     *
+     * <p>In certain cases, one Java class corresponds to two UNO types (e.g.,
+     * the Java class <code>short[].class</code> corresponds to both a sequence
+     * of <code>SHORT</code> and a sequence of <code>UNSIGNED SHORT</code> in
+     * UNO).  In such ambiguous cases, the parameter <code>alternative</code>
+     * controls which UNO type is chosen:
+     * <ul>
+     *   <li>If the Java type is (an array type with element type)
+     *   <code>short</code> or <code>java.lang.Short</code>:  If
+     *   <code>alternative</code> is <code>false</code>, the chosen UNO type is
+     *   (a sequence type with element type) <code>SHORT</code>.  If
+     *   <code>alternative</code> is <code>true</code>, the chosen UNO type is
+     *   (a sequence type with element type) <code>UNSIGNED SHORT</code>.</li>
+     *
+     *   <li>If the Java type is (an array type with element type)
+     *   <code>int</code> or <code>java.lang.Integer</code>:  If
+     *   <code>alternative</code> is <code>false</code>, the chosen UNO type is
+     *   (a sequence type with element type) <code>LONG</code>.  If
+     *   <code>alternative</code> is <code>true</code>, the chosen UNO type is
+     *   (a sequence type with element type) <code>UNSIGNED LONG</code>.</li>
+     *
+     *   <li>If the Java type is (an array type with element type)
+     *   <code>long</code> or <code>java.lang.Long</code>:  If
+     *   <code>alternative</code> is <code>false</code>, the chosen UNO type is
+     *   (a sequence type with element type) <code>HYPER</code>.  If
+     *   <code>alternative</code> is <code>true</code>, the chosen UNO type is
+     *   (a sequence type with element type) <code>UNSIGNED HYPER</code>.</li>
+     *
+     *   <li>If the Java type is (an array type with element type)
+     *   <code>java.lang.Object</code>:  If <code>alternative</code> is
+     *   <code>false</code>, the chosen UNO type is (a sequence type with
+     *   element type) <code>ANY</code>.  If <code>alternative</code> is
+     *   <code>true</code>, the chosen UNO type is (a sequence type with element
+     *   type) <code>com.sun.star.uno.XInterface</code>.</li>
+     * </ul>
+     * <p>In all other cases, the value of <code>alternative</code> is
+     * ignored.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>This constructor cannot be used to create <code>Type</code> instances
+     * that represent (sequences of) instantiated polymorphic struct types.</p>
+     *
+     * @param zClass the Java class of this type; must not be <code>null</code>
+     * @param alternative controls which UNO type to choose in case of
+     *     ambiguities
+     *
+     * @since UDK 3.2.0
+     */
+    public Type(Class<?> zClass, boolean alternative) {
+        init(null, zClass, alternative, false, false);
+    }
+
+    private Type(
+        Class<?> zClass, boolean alternative, boolean sequenceComponentType)
+    {
+        init(null, zClass, alternative, false, sequenceComponentType);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Type</code> from the given type description.
+     *
+     * <em>For internal URE use only. Not to be used by client code.</em>
+     *
+     * @param typeDescription a type description.  Must not be
+     *     <code>null</code>.
+     */
+    public Type(TypeDescription typeDescription) {
+        _typeName         = typeDescription.getTypeName();
+        _typeClass        = typeDescription.getTypeClass();
+        _iTypeDescription = typeDescription;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Type</code> with the given type name.
+     *
+     * @param typeName the name of this type; must not be <code>null</code>.
+     */
+    public Type(String typeName) {
+        if (typeName.startsWith("[]")) {
+            _typeName = typeName;
+            _typeClass = TypeClass.SEQUENCE;
+            return;
+        }
+        for (int i = 0; i < __typeClassToTypeName.length; ++i) {
+            if (__typeClassToTypeName[i].equals(typeName)) {
+                _typeName = typeName;
+                _typeClass = TypeClass.fromInt(i);
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+        int i = typeName.indexOf('<');
+        try {
+            init(
+                typeName,
+                Class.forName(i < 0 ? typeName : typeName.substring(0, i)),
+                false, i >= 0, false);
+        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new <code>Type</code> with the given type class.
+     *
+     * @param typeClass the type class of this type; must not be
+     *     <code>null</code>.  Only type classes for simple types are allowed
+     *     here.
+     *
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given <code>typeClass</code> is
+     *     not simple (for example, a struct or an interface type).  This
+     *     constructor could not find out the type name in such a case.
+     */
+    public Type(TypeClass typeClass) {
+        if(__isTypeClassPrimitive(typeClass)) {
+            _typeClass = typeClass;
+            _typeName = __typeClassToTypeName[typeClass.getValue()];
+        }
+        else
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(typeClass + " is not primitive");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the type class.
+     *
+     * @return the type class.  Will never be <code>null</code>, but might be
+     *     <code>UNKNOWN</code>.
+     */
+    public TypeClass getTypeClass() {
+        return _typeClass;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the type name.
+     *
+     * @return the type name; will never be <code>null</code>
+     */
+    public String getTypeName() {
+        return _typeName;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the Java class.
+     *
+     * @return the type name; may be <code>null</code> in extreme situations
+     *     (inconsistent <code>TypeClass</code>, error loading a class)
+     */
+    public Class<?> getZClass() {
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if (_class == null) {
+                _class = determineClass();
+            }
+        }
+        return _class;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives the type description of this type.
+     *
+     * <em>For internal URE use only. Not to be used by client code.</em>
+     *
+     * @return the type description; may be <code>null</code>
+     */
+    public TypeDescription getTypeDescription() {
+        return _iTypeDescription;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the type description for this type.
+     *
+     * <em>For internal URE use only. Not to be used by client code.</em>
+     *
+     * @param typeDescription the type description
+     */
+    public void setTypeDescription(TypeDescription typeDescription) {
+        _iTypeDescription = typeDescription;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determines whether this UNO type is a supertype of another UNO type.
+     *
+     * UNO only defines the following supertype relations:
+     * (1)  A struct type t1 is a supertype of a struct type t2, if either t1
+     * and t2 are the same, or t1 is a direct or indirect parent of t2.
+     * (2)  An exception type t1 is a supertype of an exception type t2, if
+     * either t1 and t2 are the same, or t1 is a direct or indirect parent
+     * of t2.
+     * (3)  An interface type t1 is a supertype of an interface type t2, if
+     * either t1 and t2 are the same, or t1 is a direct or indirect parent
+     * of t2.
+     *
+     * Following the conventions of the Java UNO language binding,
+     * com.sun.star.uno.Exception is not considered a supertype of
+     * com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException or any exception type derived from
+     * com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException.
+     *
+     * @param type some Type
+     * @return true if this type is a supertype of the given type
+     *
+     * @since UDK 3.2.0
+     */
+    public boolean isSupertypeOf(Type type) {
+        if (_typeClass != type._typeClass) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        switch (_typeClass.getValue()) {
+        case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+        case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(type._typeName);
+
+        case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+            // This check exploits the fact that an instantiated polymorphic
+            // struct type may not be the direct base of a struct type:
+            if (_typeName.indexOf('<') >= 0 || type._typeName.indexOf('<') >= 0)
+            {
+                return _typeName.equals(type._typeName);
+            }
+            // fall-through
+        case TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value:
+        case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+            Class<?> c1 = getZClass();
+            Class<?> c2 = type.getZClass();
+            return c1 != null && c2 != null && c1.isAssignableFrom(c2);
+
+        default:
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Indicates whether some other object is equal to this one.
+     *
+     * @param obj the reference object with which to compare.
+     * @return <code>true</code> if this object is the same as the obj argument;
+     * <code>false</code> otherwise.
+     * @see java.lang.Object#equals
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        return obj instanceof Type
+            && _typeClass == ((Type) obj)._typeClass
+            && _typeName.equals(((Type) obj)._typeName);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a hash code value for the object.
+     *
+     * @return a hash code value for this object.
+     * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return _typeName.hashCode();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a string representation of the object.
+     *
+     * @return a string representation of the object.
+     * @see java.lang.Object#toString
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "Type[" + _typeName + "]";
+    }
+
+    private void init(
+        String name, Class<?> zClass, boolean alternative, boolean arguments,
+        boolean sequenceComponentType)
+    {
+        TypeInfo info = __javaClassToTypeClass.get(zClass);
+        if (info != null) {
+            if (sequenceComponentType && !info.sequenceComponentType) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    zClass + " cannot be sequence component type");
+            }
+            // info only contains primitive type classes, except for
+            // TypeClass.INTERFACE, which stands for XInterface (the alternative
+            // interpretation of java.lang.Object):
+            _typeClass = alternative ? info.alternative  : info.primary;
+            _typeName = _typeClass == TypeClass.INTERFACE
+                ? XInterface.class.getName()
+                : __typeClassToTypeName[_typeClass.getValue()];
+            // do not assign _class from zClass, as _class should always be
+            // normalized (e.g., boolean.class instead of
+            // java.lang.Boolean.class); getZClass will later calculate the
+            // correct class when needed
+        } else if (zClass.isArray()) {
+            Type t = new Type(zClass.getComponentType(), alternative, true);
+            _typeClass = t.getTypeClass() != TypeClass.UNKNOWN
+                ? TypeClass.SEQUENCE : TypeClass.UNKNOWN;
+            _typeName = "[]" + t.getTypeName();
+            // do not assign _class from zClass, as _class should always be
+            // normalized (e.g., boolean[].class instead of
+            // java.lang.Boolean[].class); getZClass will later calculate the
+            // correct class when needed
+        } else if (Enum.class.isAssignableFrom(zClass)) {
+            _typeClass = zClass != Enum.class
+                ? TypeClass.ENUM : TypeClass.UNKNOWN;
+            _typeName = zClass.getName();
+            _class = zClass;
+        } else if (Throwable.class.isAssignableFrom(zClass)) {
+            _typeClass
+                = com.sun.star.uno.Exception.class.isAssignableFrom(zClass)
+                || com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException.class.isAssignableFrom(
+                    zClass)
+                ? TypeClass.EXCEPTION : TypeClass.UNKNOWN;
+            _typeName = zClass.getName();
+            _class = zClass;
+        } else if (zClass.isInterface()) {
+            _typeClass = XInterface.class.isAssignableFrom(zClass)
+                ? TypeClass.INTERFACE : TypeClass.UNKNOWN;
+            _typeName = zClass.getName();
+            _class = zClass;
+        } else if (XInterface.class.isAssignableFrom(zClass)) {
+            // This case is needed by code that uses this constructor to
+            // calculate the UNO type corresponding to a Java object:
+            _typeClass = TypeClass.INTERFACE;
+            _typeName = XInterface.class.getName();
+            _class = XInterface.class;
+        } else {
+            // assert zClass != Object.class && !zClass.isPrimitive();
+            _typeClass = TypeClass.STRUCT;
+            _typeName = name == null ? zClass.getName() : name;
+            _class = zClass;
+        }
+        if (arguments && _typeClass != TypeClass.STRUCT) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                zClass + " cannot have type arguments");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Class<?> determineClass() {
+        switch (_typeClass.getValue()) {
+        case TypeClass.VOID_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_VOID) ? void.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_BOOLEAN) ? boolean.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_BYTE) ? byte.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_SHORT) ? short.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_SHORT)
+                ? short.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_LONG) ? int.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_LONG) ? int.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_HYPER) ? long.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_HYPER)
+                ? long.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_FLOAT) ? float.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_DOUBLE) ? double.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_CHAR) ? char.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_STRING) ? String.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_TYPE) ? Type.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.ANY_value:
+            return _typeName.equals(TYPE_NAME_ANY) ? Object.class : null;
+
+        case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+            StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
+            int offset = 0;
+            for (; _typeName.startsWith("[]", offset); offset += "[]".length())
+            {
+                buf.append('[');
+            }
+            if (buf.length() == 0) {
+                return null;
+            }
+            String base = _typeName.substring(offset);
+            if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_VOID)) {
+                buf.append('V');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_BOOLEAN)) {
+                buf.append('Z');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_BYTE)) {
+                buf.append('B');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_SHORT)
+                       || base.equals(TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_SHORT)) {
+                buf.append('S');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_LONG)
+                       || base.equals(TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_LONG)) {
+                buf.append('I');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_HYPER)
+                       || base.equals(TYPE_NAME_UNSIGNED_HYPER)) {
+                buf.append('J');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_FLOAT)) {
+                buf.append('F');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_DOUBLE)) {
+                buf.append('D');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_CHAR)) {
+                buf.append('C');
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_STRING)) {
+                buf.append("Ljava.lang.String;");
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_TYPE)) {
+                buf.append("Lcom.sun.star.uno.Type;");
+            } else if (base.equals(TYPE_NAME_ANY)) {
+                buf.append("Ljava.lang.Object;");
+            } else {
+                int args = base.indexOf('<');
+                if (args >= 0) {
+                    base = base.substring(0, args);
+                }
+                Class<?> c;
+                try {
+                    c = Class.forName(base);
+                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                    return null;
+                }
+                if (args < 0 && new Type(c).getTypeClass() == TypeClass.UNKNOWN)
+                {
+                    return null;
+                }
+                buf.append('L');
+                buf.append(base);
+                buf.append(';');
+            }
+            try {
+                return Class.forName(buf.toString());
+            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+        case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+        case TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value:
+        case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+            {
+                Class<?> c;
+                try {
+                    c = Class.forName(_typeName);
+                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                    return null;
+                }
+                return new Type(c).equals(this) ? c : null;
+            }
+
+        case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+            {
+                int args = _typeName.indexOf('<');
+                Class<?> c;
+                try {
+                    c = Class.forName(
+                        args < 0 ? _typeName : _typeName.substring(0, args));
+                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                    return null;
+                }
+                return args >= 0 || new Type(c).equals(this) ? c : null;
+            }
+
+        default:
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static boolean __isTypeClassPrimitive(TypeClass typeClass) {
+        return typeClass.getValue() < __typeClassToTypeName.length;
+    }
+
+    private TypeClass _typeClass; // TODO should be final
+    private String _typeName; // TODO should be final
+
+    private Class<?> _class;
+    private TypeDescription _iTypeDescription;
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/UnoRuntime.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/UnoRuntime.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f011aa77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/UnoRuntime.java
@@ -0,0 +1,726 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.WeakHashMap;
+
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.FieldDescription;
+import com.sun.star.lib.uno.typedesc.TypeDescription;
+import com.sun.star.lib.util.WeakMap;
+
+/**
+ * The central class needed for implementing or using UNO components in Java.
+ *
+ * <p>The methods <code>queryInterface</code> and <code>areSame</code> delegate
+ * calls to the implementing objects and are used instead of casts,
+ * <code>instanceof</code>, <code>==</code>, and <code>equals</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>For historic reasons, this class is not <code>final</code>, and has a
+ * <code>public</code> constructor.  These artifacts are considered mistakes,
+ * which might be corrected in a future version of this class, so client code
+ * should not rely on them.</p>
+ *
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment
+ * @see com.sun.star.uno.IQueryInterface
+ */
+public class UnoRuntime {
+    /**
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, do not create instances of this class.
+     * It is considered a historic mistake to have a <code>public</code>
+     * constructor for this class, which only has <code>static</code> members.
+     * Also, this class might be changed to become <code>final</code> in a
+     * future version.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public UnoRuntime() {}
+
+    /**
+     * Generates a worldwide unique identifier string.
+     *
+     * <p>It is guaranteed that every invocation of this method generates a new
+     * ID, which is unique within the VM.  The quality of &ldquo;worldwide
+     * unique&rdquo; will depend on the actual implementation, you should look
+     * at the source to determine if it meets your requirements.</p>
+     *
+     * @return a unique <code>String</code>
+     */
+    public static String getUniqueKey() {
+        synchronized (uniqueKeyLock) {
+            if (uniqueKeyCount == Long.MAX_VALUE) {
+                long time;
+                for (time = System.currentTimeMillis(); time == uniqueKeyTime;)
+                {
+                    // Conservatively sleep for 100 millisecond to wait for
+                    // System.currentTimeMillis() to change:
+                    try {
+                        Thread.sleep(100);
+                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                        Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+                    }
+                }
+                uniqueKeyTime = time;
+                uniqueKeyCount = Long.MIN_VALUE;
+            }
+            return uniqueKeyHostPrefix + Long.toString(uniqueKeyTime, 16) + ":"
+                + Long.toString(uniqueKeyCount++, 16);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Generates a worldwide unique object identifier (OID) for the given
+     * Java object.
+     *
+     * <p>It is guaranteed that subsequent calls to this method with the same
+     * Java object will give the same ID.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>This method is generally of little use for client code.  It should be
+     * considered a mistake that this method is published at all.</p>
+     *
+     * @param object any object for which an OID shall be generated; must not be
+     * <code>null</code>
+     * @return the generated OID
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IQueryInterface#getOid
+     */
+    public static String generateOid(Object object) {
+        String oid = null;
+        if (object instanceof IQueryInterface) {
+            oid = ((IQueryInterface) object).getOid();
+        }
+        if (oid == null) {
+            synchronized (oidMap) {
+                 oid = oidMap.get(object);
+                 if (oid == null) {
+                     oid = UUID.randomUUID().toString() + oidSuffix;
+                     oidMap.put(object, oid);
+                 }
+            }
+        }
+        return oid;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Queries the given UNO object for the given UNO interface type.
+     *
+     * <p>This method returns <code>null</code> in case the given UNO object
+     * does not support the given UNO interface type (or is itself
+     * <code>null</code>).  Otherwise, a reference to a Java object implementing
+     * the Java interface type corresponding to the given UNO interface is
+     * returned.  In the latter case, it is unspecified whether the returned
+     * Java object is the same as the given object, or is another facet of that
+     * UNO object.</p>
+     *
+     * @param type the requested UNO interface type; must be a <code>Type</code>
+     * object representing a UNO interface type
+     * @param object a reference to any Java object representing (a facet of) a
+     * UNO object; may be <code>null</code>
+     * @return a reference to the requested UNO interface type if available,
+     * otherwise <code>null</code>
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IQueryInterface#queryInterface
+     */
+    public static Object queryInterface(Type type, Object object) {
+        // Gracefully handle those situations where the passed in UNO object is
+        // wrapped in an Any.  Strictly speaking, such a situation constitutes a
+        // bug, but it is anticipated that such situations will arise quite
+        // often in practice (especially since UNO Anys containing an XInterface
+        // reference are not wrapped in a Java Any, but UNO Anys containing any
+        // other interface reference are wrapped in a Java Any, which can lead
+        // to confusion).
+        if (object instanceof Any) {
+            Any a = (Any) object;
+            if (a.getType().getTypeClass() == TypeClass.INTERFACE) {
+                object = a.getObject();
+            }
+        }
+        if (object instanceof IQueryInterface) {
+            object = ((IQueryInterface) object).queryInterface(type);
+            if (object instanceof Any) {
+                Any a = (Any) object;
+                object = a.getType().getTypeClass() == TypeClass.INTERFACE
+                    ? a.getObject() : null;
+            }
+        }
+        // Ensure that the object implements the requested interface type:
+        Class<?> c = type.getZClass();
+        if (c == null || !c.isInstance(object)) {
+            object = null;
+        }
+        return object;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Queries the given UNO object for the given Java class (which must
+     * represent a UNO interface type).
+     *
+     * @param <T> the requested UNO interface type.
+     * @param zInterface a Java class representing a UNO interface type
+     * @param object a reference to any Java object representing (a facet of) a
+     * UNO object; may be <code>null</code>
+     * @return a reference to the requested UNO interface type if available,
+     * otherwise <code>null</code>
+     * @see #queryInterface(Type, Object)
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public static <T> T queryInterface(Class<T> zInterface, Object object) {
+        return (T) queryInterface(new Type(zInterface), object);
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Tests two UNO <code>ANY</code> values for equality.
+
+       <p>Two UNO values are <dfn>equal</dfn> if and only if they are of the
+       same UNO type&nbsp;<var>t</var>, and they meet the following condition,
+       depending on&nbsp;<var>t</var>:</p>
+       <ul>
+         <li>If <var>t</var> is a primitive type, then both values must denote
+         the same element of the set of values of&nbsp;<var>t</var>.</li>
+
+         <li>If <var>t</var> is a structured type, then both values must
+         recursively contain corresponding values that are equal.</li>
+
+         <li>If <var>t</var> is an interface type, then the two values must be
+         either both null references, or both references to the same UNO
+         object.</li>
+       </ul>
+
+       @param any1 a Java value representing a UNO <code>ANY</code> value.
+
+       @param any2 a Java value representing a UNO <code>ANY</code> value.
+
+       @return <code>true</code> if and only if the two arguments represent
+       equal UNO values.
+    */
+    public static boolean areSame(Object any1, Object any2) {
+        Any a1 = Any.complete(any1);
+        Any a2 = Any.complete(any2);
+        Type t = a1.getType();
+        if (!a2.getType().equals(t)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        Object v1 = a1.getObject();
+        Object v2 = a2.getObject();
+        switch (t.getTypeClass().getValue()) {
+        case TypeClass.VOID_value:
+            return true;
+        case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+        case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+        case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+        case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+        case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+        case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+        case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+        case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+        case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+        case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+            return v1.equals(v2);
+        case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+            int n = Array.getLength(v1);
+            if (n != Array.getLength(v2)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
+                // Recursively using areSame on Java values that are (boxed)
+                // elements of Java arrays representing UNO sequence values,
+                // instead of on Java values that are representations of UNO ANY
+                // values, works by chance:
+                if (!areSame(Array.get(v1, i), Array.get(v2, i))) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+            return true;
+        case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+            return v1 == v2;
+        case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+        case TypeClass.EXCEPTION_value:
+            FieldDescription[] fs;
+            try {
+                fs = TypeDescription.getTypeDescription(t).
+                    getFieldDescriptions();
+            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                throw new java.lang.RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+            for (int i = 0; i< fs.length; ++i) {
+                Type ft = new Type(fs[i].getTypeDescription());
+                try {
+                    // Recursively using areSame on Java values that are (boxed)
+                    // fields of Java classes representing UNO struct or
+                    // exception values, instead of on Java values that are
+                    // representations of UNO ANY values, works by chance:
+                    if (!areSame(
+                            completeValue(ft, fs[i].getField().get(v1)),
+                            completeValue(ft, fs[i].getField().get(v2))))
+                    {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+                    throw new java.lang.RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+            }
+            return true;
+        case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+            return v1 == v2
+                || (v1 instanceof IQueryInterface
+                    && ((IQueryInterface) v1).isSame(v2))
+                || (v2 instanceof IQueryInterface
+                    && ((IQueryInterface) v2).isSame(v1));
+        default:
+            throw new java.lang.RuntimeException(
+                "com.sun.star.uno.Any has bad com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+       Complete a UNO value (make sure it is no invalid <code>null</code>
+       value).
+
+       <p>This is useful for members of parameterized type of instantiated
+       polymorphic struct types, as <code>null</code> is a valid value there
+       (and only there, for all types except <code>ANY</code> and interface
+       types).</p>
+
+       @param type a non-void, non-exception UNO type.
+
+       @param value a Java value representing a UNO value of the given UNO type,
+       or <code>null</code>.
+
+       @return the given value, or the neutral value of the given type, if the
+       given value was an invalid <code>null</code> value.
+
+       @since UDK 3.2.3
+    */
+    public static final Object completeValue(Type type, Object value) {
+        if (value != null) {
+            return value;
+        }
+        switch (type.getTypeClass().getValue()) {
+        case TypeClass.BOOLEAN_value:
+            return Boolean.FALSE;
+        case TypeClass.BYTE_value:
+            return Byte.valueOf((byte) 0);
+        case TypeClass.SHORT_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_SHORT_value:
+            return Short.valueOf((short) 0);
+        case TypeClass.LONG_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_LONG_value:
+            return Integer.valueOf(0);
+        case TypeClass.HYPER_value:
+        case TypeClass.UNSIGNED_HYPER_value:
+            return Long.valueOf(0);
+        case TypeClass.FLOAT_value:
+            return new Float(0.0f);
+        case TypeClass.DOUBLE_value:
+            return new Double(0.0);
+        case TypeClass.CHAR_value:
+            return new Character('\u0000');
+        case TypeClass.STRING_value:
+            return "";
+        case TypeClass.TYPE_value:
+            return Type.VOID;
+        case TypeClass.ANY_value:
+        case TypeClass.INTERFACE_value:
+            return null;
+        case TypeClass.SEQUENCE_value:
+            return Array.newInstance(type.getZClass().getComponentType(), 0);
+        case TypeClass.STRUCT_value:
+            try {
+                return type.getZClass().getConstructor((Class[]) null).
+                    newInstance((Object[]) null);
+            } catch (java.lang.RuntimeException e) {
+                throw e;
+            } catch (java.lang.Exception e) {
+                throw new java.lang.RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        case TypeClass.ENUM_value:
+            try {
+                return type.getZClass().getMethod("getDefault", (Class[]) null).
+                    invoke(null, (Object[]) null);
+            } catch (java.lang.RuntimeException e) {
+                throw e;
+            } catch (java.lang.Exception e) {
+                throw new java.lang.RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        default:
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime.completeValue called with bad"
+                + " com.sun.star.uno.Type");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the current context of the current thread, or <code>null</code> if
+     * no context has been set for the current thread.
+     *
+     * <p>The current context is thread local, which means that this method
+     * returns the context that was last set for this thread.</p>
+     *
+     * @return the current context of the current thread, or <code>null</code>
+     * if no context has been set for the current thread
+     */
+    public static XCurrentContext getCurrentContext() {
+        return currentContext.get();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the current context for the current thread.
+     *
+     * <p>The current context is thread local.  To support a stacking behaviour,
+     * every function that sets the current context should reset it to the
+     * original value when exiting (for example, within a <code>finally</code>
+     * block).</p>
+     *
+     * @param context the context to be set; if <code>null</code>, any
+     * previously set context will be removed
+    */
+    public static void setCurrentContext(XCurrentContext context) {
+        if (context == null) {
+            currentContext.remove();
+        } else {
+            currentContext.set(context);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves an environment of type <code>name</code> with context
+     * <code>context</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>Environments are held weakly by this class.  If the requested
+     * environment already exists, this methods simply returns it.  Otherwise,
+     * this method looks for it under
+     * <code>com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.<var>name</var>.<!--
+     * --><var>name</var>_environment</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param name the name of the environment
+     * @param context the context of the environment
+     * @throws Exception if something goes awry.
+     * @return an environment.
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment
+     *
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, this method is deprecated, without
+     * offering a replacement.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static IEnvironment getEnvironment(String name, Object context)
+        throws java.lang.Exception
+    {
+        synchronized (environments) {
+            IEnvironment env = WeakMap.getValue(
+                environments.get(name + context));
+            if (env == null) {
+                Class<?> c = Class.forName(
+                    "com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments." + name + "." + name
+                    + "_environment");
+                Constructor<?> ctor = c.getConstructor(
+                    new Class[] { Object.class });
+                env = (IEnvironment) ctor.newInstance(new Object[] { context });
+                environments.put(name + context, env);
+            }
+            return  env;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a bridge from environment <code>from</code> to environment
+     * <code>to</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>Creates a new bridge, if the requested bridge does not yet exist, and
+     * hands the arguments to the bridge.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>If the requested bridge does not exist, it is searched for in package
+     * <code>com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.<var>from</var>_<var>to</var>;</code>
+     * and the root classpath as
+     * <code><var>from</var>_<var>to</var>_bridge</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param from the source environment
+     * @param to the target environment
+     * @param args the initial arguments for the bridge
+     * @throws Exception if something goes awry.
+     * @return the requested bridge
+     * @see #getBridgeByName
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment
+     *
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, this method is deprecated, without
+     * offering a replacement.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static IBridge getBridge(
+        IEnvironment from, IEnvironment to, Object[] args)
+        throws java.lang.Exception
+    {
+        synchronized (bridges) {
+            String name = from.getName() + "_" + to.getName();
+            String hashName = from.getName() + from.getContext() + "_"
+                + to.getName() + to.getContext();
+            IBridge bridge = WeakMap.getValue(bridges.get(hashName));
+            if(bridge == null) {
+                Class<?> zClass = null;
+                String className =  name + "_bridge";
+                try {
+                    zClass = Class.forName(className);
+                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                    className = "com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges." + name + "."
+                        + className;
+                    zClass = Class.forName(className);
+                }
+                Class<?>[] signature = {
+                    IEnvironment.class, IEnvironment.class, args.getClass() };
+                Constructor<?> constructor = zClass.getConstructor(signature);
+                Object[] iargs = { from, to, args };
+                bridge = (IBridge) constructor.newInstance(iargs);
+                bridges.put(hashName, bridge);
+            }
+            return bridge;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a bridge from environment <code>from</code> to environment
+     * <code>to</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>Creates a new bridge, if the requested bridge does not yet exist, and
+     * hands the arguments to the bridge.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>If the requested bridge does not exist, it is searched for in package
+     * <code>com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.<var>from</var>_<var>to</var>;</code>
+     * and the root classpath as
+     * <code><var>from</var>_<var>to</var>_bridge</code>.  The used environments
+     * are retrieved through <code>getEnvironment</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param from the name of the source environment
+     * @param fromContext the context for the source environment
+     * @param to the name of the target environment
+     * @param toContext the context for the target environment
+     * @param args the initial arguments for the bridge
+     * @throws Exception if something goes awry.
+     * @return the requested bridge
+     * @see #getBridge
+     * @see #getEnvironment
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment
+     *
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, this method is deprecated, without
+     * offering a replacement.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static IBridge getBridgeByName(
+        String from, Object fromContext, String to, Object toContext,
+        Object[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
+    {
+        return getBridge(
+            getEnvironment(from, fromContext), getEnvironment(to, toContext),
+            args);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an array of all active bridges.
+     *
+     * @return an array of <code>IBridge</code> objects
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IBridge
+     *
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, this method is deprecated, without
+     * offering a replacement.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static IBridge[] getBridges() {
+        ArrayList<Object> l = new ArrayList<Object>();
+        synchronized (bridges) {
+            for (Iterator<java.lang.ref.WeakReference<IBridge>> i = bridges.values().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                IBridge o = WeakMap.getValue(i.next());
+                if (o != null) {
+                    l.add(o);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return l.toArray(new IBridge[l.size()]);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a mapping from environment <code>from</code> to environment
+     * <code>to</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>Mappings are like bridges, except that with mappings one can only map
+     * in one direction.  Mappings are here for compatibility with the binary
+     * UNO API.  Mappings are implemented as wrappers around bridges.</p>
+     *
+     * @param from the source environment
+     * @param to the target environment
+     * @throws Exception if something goes awry.
+     * @return the requested mapping
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IEnvironment
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IMapping
+     *
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, this method is deprecated, without
+     * offering a replacement.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static IMapping getMapping(IEnvironment from, IEnvironment to)
+        throws java.lang.Exception
+    {
+        IBridge bridge;
+        try {
+            bridge = getBridge(from, to, null);
+        }
+        catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            bridge = new BridgeTurner(getBridge(to, from, null));
+        }
+        return new MappingWrapper(bridge);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a mapping from environment <code>from</code> to environment
+     * <code>to</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>The used environments are retrieved through
+     * <code>getEnvironment</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param from the name of the source environment
+     * @param to the name of the target environment
+     * @throws Exception if something goes awry.
+     * @return the requested mapping
+     * @see #getEnvironment
+     * @see #getMapping
+     * @see com.sun.star.uno.IMapping
+     *
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, this method is deprecated, without
+     * offering a replacement.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static IMapping getMappingByName(String from, String to)
+        throws java.lang.Exception
+    {
+        return getMapping(getEnvironment(from, null), getEnvironment(to, null));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Resets this <code>UnoRuntime</code> to its initial state.
+     *
+     * <p>Releases all references to bridges and environments.</p>
+     *
+     * @return true if another thread didn't re-insert some bridge or
+     *         environment before the method returns.  Why that information
+     *         would be useful is anybody's guess.
+     *
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, this method is deprecated, without
+     * offering a replacement.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static boolean reset() {
+        synchronized (bridges) {
+            for (Iterator<java.lang.ref.WeakReference<IBridge>> i = bridges.values().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                IBridge b = WeakMap.getValue(i.next());
+                if (b != null) {
+                    // The following call to dispose was originally made to
+                    // com.sun.star.lib.sandbox.Disposable.dispose, which cannot
+                    // throw an InterruptedException or IOException:
+                    try {
+                        b.dispose();
+                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                        Thread.currentThread();
+                        Thread.interrupted();
+                        throw new RuntimeException(
+                            "Unexpected exception in UnoRuntime.reset: " + e);
+                    } catch (IOException e) {
+                        throw new RuntimeException(
+                            "Unexpected exception in UnoRuntime.reset: " + e);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            bridges.clear();
+        }
+        environments.clear();
+        return bridges.isEmpty() && environments.isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @deprecated As of UDK&nbsp;3.2.0, do not use this internal field.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+    private static final class BridgeTurner implements IBridge {
+        public BridgeTurner(IBridge bridge) {
+            this.bridge = bridge;
+        }
+
+        public Object mapInterfaceTo(Object object, Type type) {
+            return bridge.mapInterfaceFrom(object, type);
+        }
+
+        public Object mapInterfaceFrom(Object object, Type type) {
+            return bridge.mapInterfaceTo(object, type);
+        }
+
+        public IEnvironment getSourceEnvironment() {
+            return bridge.getTargetEnvironment();
+        }
+
+        public IEnvironment getTargetEnvironment() {
+            return bridge.getSourceEnvironment();
+        }
+
+        public void acquire() {
+            bridge.acquire();
+        }
+
+        public void release() {
+            bridge.release();
+        }
+
+        public void dispose() throws InterruptedException, IOException {
+            bridge.dispose();
+        }
+
+        private final IBridge bridge;
+    }
+
+    private static final class MappingWrapper implements IMapping {
+        public MappingWrapper(IBridge bridge) {
+            this.bridge = bridge;
+        }
+
+        public Object mapInterface(Object object, Type type) {
+            return bridge.mapInterfaceTo(object, type);
+        }
+
+        private final IBridge bridge;
+    }
+
+    private static final WeakHashMap<Object,String> oidMap = new WeakHashMap<Object,String>();
+    private static final String uniqueKeyHostPrefix
+    = Integer.toString(new Object().hashCode(), 16) + ":";
+    private static final Object uniqueKeyLock = new Object();
+    private static long uniqueKeyTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+    private static long uniqueKeyCount = Long.MIN_VALUE;
+
+    private static final String oidSuffix = ";java[];" + getUniqueKey();
+
+    private static final ThreadLocal<XCurrentContext> currentContext = new ThreadLocal<XCurrentContext>();
+
+    private static final WeakMap<String,IEnvironment> environments = new WeakMap<String,IEnvironment>();
+    private static final WeakMap<String,IBridge> bridges = new WeakMap<String,IBridge>();
+}
diff --git a/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/WeakReference.java b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/WeakReference.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a6b171ac2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ridljar/com/sun/star/uno/WeakReference.java
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+package com.sun.star.uno;
+
+/**
+ * This class holds weak reference to an object.
+ *
+ * <p>It actually holds a reference to a <code>com.sun.star.XAdapter</code>
+ * implementation and obtains a hard reference if necessary.
+ */
+public class WeakReference
+{
+    private OWeakRefListener m_listener;
+    // There is no default constructor. Every instance must register itself with the
+    // XAdapter interface, which is done in the constructors. Assume we have this code
+    // WeakReference ref= new WeakReference();
+    // ref = someOtherWeakReference;
+    //
+    // ref would not be notified (XReference.dispose()) because it did not register
+    // itself. Therefore the XAdapter would be kept alive although this is not
+    // necessary.
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an instance of this class.
+     *
+     * @param obj another instance that is to be copied.
+     */
+    public WeakReference(WeakReference obj)
+    {
+        if (obj == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+        Object weakImpl = obj.get();
+        if (weakImpl == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+        XWeak weak = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XWeak.class, weakImpl);
+        if (weak != null) {
+            XAdapter adapter = weak.queryAdapter();
+            if (adapter != null)
+                m_listener = new OWeakRefListener(adapter);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an instance of this class.
+     *
+     * @param obj XWeak implementation.
+     */
+    public WeakReference(Object obj)
+    {
+        XWeak weak= UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XWeak.class, obj);
+        if (weak != null)
+        {
+            XAdapter adapter= weak.queryAdapter();
+            if (adapter != null)
+                m_listener= new OWeakRefListener(adapter);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a hard reference to the object that is kept weak by this class.
+     *
+     * @return a hard reference to the XWeak implementation.
+     */
+    public Object get()
+    {
+        if (m_listener != null)
+            return m_listener.get();
+        return null;
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of com.sun.star.uno.XReference for use with WeakReference.
+ *
+ * <p>It keeps the XAdapter implementation and registers always with it.
+ * Deregistering occurs on notification by the adapter and the adapter is
+ * released.</p>
+ */
+class OWeakRefListener implements XReference
+{
+    private XAdapter m_adapter;
+
+    /**
+     * The constructor registered this object with adapter.
+     *
+     * @param adapter the XAdapter implementation.
+     */
+    OWeakRefListener( XAdapter adapter)
+    {
+        m_adapter= adapter;
+        m_adapter.addReference(this);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Method of <code>com.sun.star.uno.XReference</code>.
+     *
+     * <p>When called, it deregisters this object with the adapter and releases
+     * the reference to it.</p>
+     */
+    synchronized public void dispose()
+    {
+        if (m_adapter != null)
+        {
+            m_adapter.removeReference(this);
+            m_adapter= null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Obtains a hard reference to the object which is kept weak by the adapter
+     * and returns it.
+     *
+     * @return hard reference to the otherwise weakly kept object.
+     */
+    synchronized Object get()
+    {
+        Object retVal= null;
+        if (m_adapter != null)
+        {
+            retVal= m_adapter.queryAdapted();
+            if (retVal == null)
+            {
+                // If this object registered as listener with XAdapter while it was notifying
+                // the listeners then this object might not have been notified. If queryAdapted
+                // returned null then the weak kept object is dead and the listeners have already
+                // been notified. And we missed it.
+                m_adapter.removeReference(this);
+                m_adapter= null;
+            }
+        }
+        return retVal;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */