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As functionality traditionally associated with desktop applications moves to the Web, developers are looking for new ways to handle that computational heavy lifting on the server side. But if you need to create a Web-based application that behaves like an office suite, there's no need to reinvent the wheel: the open source OpenOffice.org suite can actually serve as the powerhouse behind a Web application. In this article, you'll learn how to combine OpenOffice.org and Dojo to create a simple Ajax-based spreadsheet application much like Google Spreadsheets.