Hi Devs,

Currently OfficeImporter requires an OpenOffice server to be present in the
same computer as XE. I have been searching about adding support for a remote
OpenOffice server but the results are not very promising:

http://groups.google.com/group/jodconverter/browse_thread/thread/f4f0e8328d422fbf

Even though this is the case, I think we can settle on a compromise with the
following approach:

* We develop a stand-alone servlet (probably under xwiki-tools just like the
root-web-app)
* The purpose of this servlet is to:

1. Accept incoming office documents
2. Convert them into html (results in multiple files)
3. Zip the results together
4. Stream the zipped content back to the client

* And the client would be any xwiki instance that is configured to consume
this converter-servlet.

This way, multiple XWiki instances would be able to share a central
OpenOffice server via the converter-servlet. The downside of this approach
is that there has to be a servlet container on the remote computer which is
hosting the OpenOffice server.

Please let me know what you think about this idea.

Thanks.

- Asiri
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