Hi Oscar,
Oscar Picasso wrote:
Hi,
I have read several threads, without definitive answers, about the
current support for multhreading when using openoffice as a server.
Basically, I have a web application that, at user request, takes an
openoffice template, changes some text, based on the user input, and
generates a pdf file.
In this context is openoffice thread safe? If not was could be the
result of concurrently calling openoffice to populate a same template
on behalf of different requests?
OOo tries to be thread-safe ... but unfortunately it is not really. If
you stress it, it dies ...
Crash? Performance? Confusion (mixing or changing the data?).
If the openoffice server is not thread safe, I thought about the web
requests calling openoffice from the command line. But in that case,
do concurrent calls use the same openoffice instance? Is it safe from
the data integrity point of view?
Running one client at a time gives you good chances that the application
does not crash.
In short what is the safest way for openoffice to solve this use case.
Good question ... the safest way is to use the "main-thread" for doing
operations in OOo, though this one is not directly reachable from
another process.
Regards
Kay
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