I originally sent this to the wvware development list, and someone recommended I mail this group as well. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Nicholson > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:58 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Windows server with Wv on it > > Hi, > > I've downloaded the wvWare source, but I'm now unsure what to do with it. > There are several options, but they all have potential pitfalls. These are > all because the wv will ultimately run on a Windows server and not a Unix > server. > > Here's what's happened so far: > > The engine is a Java servlet engine. It needs to be able (amongst other > things) to strip plain text out of a number of formats. > At the moment, it can deal with RTF, HTML and some XML formats. However, > it would help matters enormously if it could do > this with Microsoft Word formats. Through the Java Native Interface (JNI), > I was hoping to communicate with the compiled wvWare. However, there are > different ways I could compile it. > > i) Using Cygwin, compile the source code. Can theoretically just use the > Makefile already provided. However, still seem to be having some problems > with this. Would also mean having to count on shared cygwin.dll file and > an executable wv file. The JNI guidelines I've been using only give > guidance for communicating with a wv.dll file. > > ii) Could use MS Visual C++ (boo hiss) to compile source code, to produce > a wv.dll file that the JNI could communicate with. Downside to this... how > the heck do I do this? (seeing as there's only documentation on compiling > the code on a Unix platform) > > > If anybody out there has compiled the wv source for a Windows server, > could they please email me and tell me the options available, especially > for a Java application that needs to communicate with it. > > Regards > Chris
