No. Think of the request broker like a jdbc-connection pool. The broker
holds say 5 different oo-instances as servers which listen to different
ports and forwards requests to them if none are available it will create
a new instance up to a maximum just like apache.

Tom

Gascoigne Thomas wrote:
> Thanks for that. Would such a solution with a request broker have the
> effect of serializing the processing of each document? Cheers, Thomas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Schindl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 18 May 2006 11:23
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [api-dev] Re: Get a word doc as a java String
> 
> No please note that one single OO-Instance can only handle one single
> conversion process => OpenOffice can not deal with multiple threads from
> external. You need to implement a request broker. There are plenty
> examples out there e.g. one writen in python, ...
> 
> Tom
> 
> Gascoigne Thomas wrote:
> 
>>Thanks a lot. Just one last thing, I'm assuming that the server will
>>allow (and handle performantly) multiple concurrent requests to open
> 
> and
> 
>>extract text from (different) documents? Cheers, Thomas
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Kent Gibson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>Sent: 18 May 2006 10:22
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: RE: [api-dev] Re: Get a word doc as a java String
>>
>>I may be wrong, but no matter what you will need the
>>server running, the only question is how transparent
>>it is to you, if you use the bean examples or
>>something called nice office access (not very well
>>documented in english though) then the connection
>>handling is relativley transparent, they will kick
>>start the server, (but you will probably not be able
>>to bring it down again. I use macros to do that.)
>>Otherwise you will need to start the server from hand
>>listenning to a port. 90% of the effort is getting
>>that connection and getting that document open.
>>
>>--- Gascoigne Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Cheers Kent,
>>>
>>>Just another quick one before I give it a try. To do
>>>this simple text
>>>extraction task should it be possible to use an OO
>>>api in process by
>>>just including necessary jars or will it required a
>>>full OO 'server'
>>>running either locally or remotely?  
>>>Thanks, Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Kent Gibson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>>Sent: 17 May 2006 18:36
>>>To: [email protected]
>>>Subject: Re: [api-dev] Re: Get a word doc as a java
>>>String
>>>
>>>it really won't be too tricky. You will need to
>>>connect, and then convert your document. There are
>>>examples for connection and conversion (filters). Be
>>>sure to look in the java examples directory of the
>>>sdk.  
>>>
>>>Be sure to also look on the openoffice snippets
>>>page,
>>>there are some bootstrapping classe which will get
>>>you
>>>up and runny very quickly. other than that you will
>>>probably have to be a bit more specific. 
>>>
>>>good luck
>>>
>>>--- Gascoigne Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I need to turn MS Word documents into plain text
>>>
>>>so
>>>
>>>
>>>>that they can be
>>>>indexed for searching purposes. Would the Open
>>>>Office UNO api provide
>>>>
>>>>a relatively straight forward and painless way to
>>>
>>>do
>>>
>>>
>>>>this. I basically
>>>>need to read word docs in and get a java String
>>>>representation of the
>>>>doc out. Any advise greatly appreciated, Thomas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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