Hi, The remote server is the right approach. I've been thinking for a while that we should propose a server hosted by XWiki that would do that and give installations instructions for those wanting to run such a server internally.
You should build a very nice simple REST api for this server. Ludovic Wang Ning wrote: > Hi, > > I want to develop a component to handle office documents in xwiki. As we > discussion before, I want to use openoffice api. I set a openoffice develop > environment in my pc running ubuntu 8.04, and learn how to use openoffice > api. Yes, The oo sdk is powerful to address office documents, MS doc, MS > excel... > But there's a problem. AFAIK, openoffice api need a openoffice local runtime > or a remote server running openoffice. The whole openoffice runtime is 356M, > more or less, so we shouldn't contain it in xwiki release. Hense, I think if > we want the office importer run in a computer, the computer should have > installed openoffice or configurate a remote openoffice server. > > WDYT? > I need some suggestion. > Thanks. > > -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

