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. >
Well, we should not embed an OpenOffice instance in XWiki products, so we should: - have *very* good installation notes on how to configure XWiki to work with an OpenOffice instance (ideally it should automatically detect if and where is OO installed). - easily show/hide menu entries/actions, depending on whether OO is available or not. - always display nice messages when the user somehow requests an operation that requires OO, and OO is not available. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
