EasyRPA Open Framework

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Usage
• Libraries
• Examples
• Contributing
• License

Introduction

The Robotic Process Automation (RPA) supposes the doing of things in a way as human does it, via UI elements. But the work with different document formats or services such as Excel, PDF, Google Docs, etc. can be done without actual manipulation with UI elements. If RPA platform supports describing of robot scenarios based on the one of popular program language like Java, the automation of these things can be done using tens of existing functional libraries and APIs. Such approach allows significantly speedup the robot work and increase performance. At the same time, if you are not familiar with these libraries it takes much time to find them and investigate. Moreover, the found functionality will be poorly adapted for usage in the code of robot scenarios. As result the using of functional libraries and APIs can become a nightmare.

EasyRPA Open Framework is a collection of open-source Java-libraries for Robotic Process Automation designed to be used with EasyRPA platform. It keeps in one place libraries to work with most popular document formats and services. The functionality is clear and easy to use with minimal amount of preparation or configuration steps in the code that ``significantly simplifies development of RPA processes.

The project is:

• 100% Open Source
• Optimized for EasyRPA platform
• Accepting external contributions

Usage

EasyRPA Open Framework consist of several independent libraries. All of them are deployed on Maven Central repository.

In order to use any of EasyRPA Open Framework's library you need simply add it as a dependency in your Maven POM file. E.g.:

<dependency>
    <groupId>eu.easyrpa</groupId>
    <artifactId>easy-rpa-openframework-email</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Additionally, to let libraries collaborate with RPA platform it's necessary to add as dependency corresponding adapter. Since this framework initially was intended and optimized to work with EasyRPA platform currently only adapter for EasyRPA platform is implemented and supported.

<dependency>
    <groupId>eu.easyrpa</groupId>
    <artifactId>easy-rpa-adapter-for-openframework</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.0</version>
</dependency>

There is no limitation to implement similar adapter for any other RPA platform that uses Java program language for describing of robot scenarios but it's out of this project scope.

Libraries

The EasyRPA Open Framework includes following libraries:

Name	Latest version	Description
Database		Functionality to work with remote databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server).
Email		Functionality to work with mailboxes and email messages.
Excel		Functionality to work with Excel documents.
Google Services		Functionality to perform authentication, authorization and instantiation of Google Workspace API client services like Drive, Sheets, Calendar etc.
Google Drive		Functionality to work with Google Drive files and folders.
Google Sheets		Functionality to work with Google Sheets.

Examples

Please refer to Examples page to see the full list of examples of using EasyRPA Open Framework libraries.

Contributing

Found a bug and it is necessary to make a fast fix? Wants to add a critical feature? Interested in contributing? Head over to the Contribution guide to see where to get started.

License

This project is open-source and licensed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.