On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Aaron Ehrensberger <aehrensber...@docfinity.com> wrote:
Hi Aaron, > Is this possible? Are their drawbacks to having two OO instances on one > machine? Should I be using libraries or some other way to use OO to do > my file conversions without actually using OO instances? yes, it's possible. You can start one instance / one user (= user settings directory) under normal circumstances. But you can specify different user settings directory when starting OO.o => you can start more instances on one machine under one user. To achieve this, you have to use -env:UserInstallation="" argument when starting OO.o. My recommendation is to start OpenOffice.org as normal user and configure it properly (Java, ...). Than quit OpenOffice.org and copy user settings to several locations. For example /opt/ooo-server/instance-1, etc. and use these directories in -env:UserInstallation argument. OpenOffice.org contains bugs, memory leaks and sometimes crashes. But don't worry, there are tools to handle all these things. Example can be oood.py written by Joerg. This daemon has simple XML configuration file when you can put number of instances, user settings directories, maximum usage count before instance restart, etc. See ZIP/CZJUGInternet/Server/oood.py [1]. Ports, redirections to instances, ... are handled in this daemon as well. So, the last step is how to connect to instances. I implemented samples for CZJUG lectures and you can find them in ZIP/CZJUGInternet/Server/Klient/remote [1]. It's based on Apaches' PoolableObjectFactory. We use something similar in our commercial products and they run on Tomcat & Java, so, it should fit your needs too. Hope it helps. [1] http://www.java.cz/dwn/1003/15588_ooffice-java-czjug0812.zip --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
