On Mar 2, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote: > Hi Devs, > > > =INTRO= > > A new version of jodconverter has been released ( > http://code.google.com/p/jodconverter/) which, among several other > enhancements includes support for automating openoffice server process > management. Even though the jodconverter API has changed slightly, > upgrading > officeimporter to use this new version of jodconverter does not > require that > much of an effort and it will allow us to control the oo server > instance > pretty easily. > > With this new version jodconverter, all we have to do is configure > the path > to the OO server installation (and few more options) within our > web.xml (or > similar) file. Apart from that, starting / stopping the oo server > process > can be done in java. Optionally, we can configure following two > parameters > as well: > > 1. Maximum number of simulataneous conversion tasks to be handled by a > single oo server instance. > 2. Task execution timeout.
Sounds good. > =UI= > > To integrate oo server management functions in XE UI we can create > an admin > page for officeimporter like XWiki.OfficeImporterAdmin and link to > it from > XWiki.AdminSheet. As a start, I have created the this mockup ui: > http://i39.tinypic.com/6tlli9.png. > > Please help me improve this UI :) > > > =IMPLEMENTATION= > > I can see two different designs that would work: > > 1. Add the required method signatures (see below) to OfficeImporter > component interface. > 2. Introduce a separate component for managing the OpenOffice server > instance. +1 for 2 since the task of managing an instance is different from that of doing import conversions. One can have a JMX interface and such while the other one is not related to mgmt. > In any case, following methods (API) will have to be added: > > 1. startOoServer(); // start > 2. stopOoServer(); // stop > 3. getOoServerStatus(); // get current state (running / stopped / > error) > 4. getOoServerPath(); // Returns the location of oo server > installation to > be displayed on admin UI > 5. getOoServerProfilePath(); // Each oo server installation is > associated > with a profile, this parameter also need to be configured in web.xml OpenOfficeServerManager or something like that and: - startServer() - stopServer() - getServerStatus() ... (no need to repeat Oo - not even sure we need "Server"). Will it be implemented as a JMX MBean? Thanks -Vincent > Since OpenOffice server is used only by officeimporter, adding those > methods > to OfficeImporter interface seems ok to me. > > WDYT? > > Thanks. > > - Asiri Thanks -Vincent http://xwiki.com http://xwiki.org http://massol.net _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
