Re: Word.Applicaiton acvivex components tomcat Windows 7
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jan, On 12/7/12 6:06 PM, Jan Kostelansky wrote: I am experiencing problems running vb script under tomcat. [...] I created servlet which does precisely the same as simple java program. If it's on the server side, there are a whole bunch of issues you could be encountering. Please post the Java code you are using to launch the script on the server. If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win XP - everything is fine If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win 7 64 bit - program stops when Word.Applicaiton ActiveX component opens docx document. Do you mean that the thread blocks and you never get a response from Tomcat? You are probably not managing your streams -- or the underlying process -- properly. Or, André's suggestion is right that Microsoft Office has lots of failure modes when running under a Service. This is not tomcat error precisely as it works on XP. I have a feeling enhanced Windows7 security causes this issues. Possibly. Are there any log messages (catalina.log, etc.) or error events in the Windows event viewer? - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEAREIAAYFAlDExJoACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBb1gCfXepZI+bWDYSfJbB1Ruv5ugmk L4sAn3n58QoDhCsfGolXlRSfRa/DYbwa =Fs9b -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: Word.Applicaiton acvivex components tomcat Windows 7
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jan, On 12/7/12 6:06 PM, Jan Kostelansky wrote: I am experiencing problems running vb script under tomcat. [...] I created servlet which does precisely the same as simple java program. If it's on the server side, there are a whole bunch of issues you could be encountering. Please post the Java code you are using to launch the script on the server. If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win XP - everything is fine If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win 7 64 bit - program stops when Word.Applicaiton ActiveX component opens docx document. Do you mean that the thread blocks and you never get a response from Tomcat? You are probably not managing your streams -- or the underlying process -- properly. Or, André's suggestion is right that Microsoft Office has lots of failure modes when running under a Service. This is not tomcat error precisely as it works on XP. I have a feeling enhanced Windows7 security causes this issues. Possibly. Are there any log messages (catalina.log, etc.) or error events in the Windows event viewer? From personal experience : it has not much to do with Windows 7 security, rather more with the slightly different way in which Windows 7 runs services, as compared to XP. There will probably not be any error in the logs of Tomcat (apart maybe from an error related to the bad end of the process). The errors will happen in the MS-Office software itself, and will typically be of the types listed in the MS article earlier mentioned. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: Word.Applicaiton acvivex components tomcat Windows 7
Jan Kostelansky wrote: Thank you André, here are details for your questions - when you have this problem, is Tomcat running as a Windows Service ? Yes it is running as service. I tried to run under local system account, and my account, which can open MS WORD, behavior is the same - where is the document that you are trying to open ? on a local disk of the Tomcat host, or on a network drive ? The file is on local HDD of tomcat host, outside of program files directory. - what version of Java is running Tomcat ? a 32-bit or 64-bit version ? It is Windows 7 64 bit release. Well, then you are probable having exactly the kind of problem that is described in the Microsoft KB article. And there is nothing that the people on the Tomcat list can do to help. It is not a problem related to Tomcat or Java. It is a problem related to running Microsoft Office Interop modules in the context of a Windows Service. As an easy way to verify this : Instead of running Tomcat as a Service, run it as an application in a command window. For that, you will need to download the zip version of tomcat, and unzip it in your Tomcat directory (or somewhere else). Then use the startup.bat file to start Tomcat as an application in the console. And then try your application again. It then it works without problems, it confirms the diagnostic above. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Word.Applicaiton acvivex components tomcat Windows 7
Hi, I am experiencing problems running vb script under tomcat. More information. The script Creates instance of Word.Applicaiton ActiveX component Opens document Prints to dedicated printer I created simple java program which Creates new process Executes vb script I created servlet which does precisely the same as simple java program. If I run simple program - everything is fine If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win XP - everything is fine If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win 7 64 bit - program stops when Word.Applicaiton ActiveX component opens docx document. This is not tomcat error precisely as it works on XP. I have a feeling enhanced Windows7 security causes this issues. However I hope somebody from tomcat community solved this issue. Thank you in advance, Jan
Re: Word.Applicaiton acvivex components tomcat Windows 7
Jan Kostelansky wrote: Hi, I am experiencing problems running vb script under tomcat. More information. The script Creates instance of Word.Applicaiton ActiveX component Opens document Prints to dedicated printer I created simple java program which Creates new process Executes vb script I created servlet which does precisely the same as simple java program. If I run simple program - everything is fine If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win XP - everything is fine If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win 7 64 bit - program stops when Word.Applicaiton ActiveX component opens docx document. This is not tomcat error precisely as it works on XP. I have a feeling enhanced Windows7 security causes this issues. However I hope somebody from tomcat community solved this issue. It may be that Tomcat - which is open-source software - just does not like these proprietary programs. So it stops when you try. That may also be revenge, for all the times Windows stops working when you try to run open-source programs on it. Now some serious questions : - when you have this problem, is Tomcat running as a Windows Service ? - where is the document that you are trying to open ? on a local disk of the Tomcat host, or on a network drive ? - what version of Java is running Tomcat ? a 32-bit or 64-bit version ? And then a note : if you are having this issue when Tomcat is running as a Service : Microsoft explicitly warns that Microsoft Office components are /not/ supported for running as a Windows Service, and that they may not work or cause strange errors. That is because Microsoft Office programs expect to be running in a process that has a console, and Services do not have one (among other reasons). See this : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q257757#kb2 Of course, it may also be because they like to sell their programs on a per-workstation base, and running as a Service usually means that you are using them for more than one user. (They even say so in that article, see the licensing part). Note that I do not work for Microsoft and I do not necessarily agree with what they say or the reasons that they give. But I have tried similar things myself, and I know that it is very difficult, and not guaranteed to be stable, to run this in a service context. You /do/ get strange errors, you get errors in Word that you do not get in Excel and vice-versa, you get problems under Windows7 that you do not get under Windows XP and vice-versa. Just like what you are seeing. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
RE: Word.Applicaiton acvivex components tomcat Windows 7
Thank you André, here are details for your questions - when you have this problem, is Tomcat running as a Windows Service ? Yes it is running as service. I tried to run under local system account, and my account, which can open MS WORD, behavior is the same - where is the document that you are trying to open ? on a local disk of the Tomcat host, or on a network drive ? The file is on local HDD of tomcat host, outside of program files directory. - what version of Java is running Tomcat ? a 32-bit or 64-bit version ? It is Windows 7 64 bit release. Thank you, Jan -Original Message- From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 6:49 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Word.Applicaiton acvivex components tomcat Windows 7 Jan Kostelansky wrote: Hi, I am experiencing problems running vb script under tomcat. More information. The script Creates instance of Word.Applicaiton ActiveX component Opens document Prints to dedicated printer I created simple java program which Creates new process Executes vb script I created servlet which does precisely the same as simple java program. If I run simple program - everything is fine If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win XP - everything is fine If I run servlet in tomcat7 under Win 7 64 bit - program stops when Word.Applicaiton ActiveX component opens docx document. This is not tomcat error precisely as it works on XP. I have a feeling enhanced Windows7 security causes this issues. However I hope somebody from tomcat community solved this issue. It may be that Tomcat - which is open-source software - just does not like these proprietary programs. So it stops when you try. That may also be revenge, for all the times Windows stops working when you try to run open-source programs on it. Now some serious questions : - when you have this problem, is Tomcat running as a Windows Service ? - where is the document that you are trying to open ? on a local disk of the Tomcat host, or on a network drive ? - what version of Java is running Tomcat ? a 32-bit or 64-bit version ? And then a note : if you are having this issue when Tomcat is running as a Service : Microsoft explicitly warns that Microsoft Office components are /not/ supported for running as a Windows Service, and that they may not work or cause strange errors. That is because Microsoft Office programs expect to be running in a process that has a console, and Services do not have one (among other reasons). See this : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q257757#kb2 Of course, it may also be because they like to sell their programs on a per-workstation base, and running as a Service usually means that you are using them for more than one user. (They even say so in that article, see the licensing part). Note that I do not work for Microsoft and I do not necessarily agree with what they say or the reasons that they give. But I have tried similar things myself, and I know that it is very difficult, and not guaranteed to be stable, to run this in a service context. You /do/ get strange errors, you get errors in Word that you do not get in Excel and vice-versa, you get problems under Windows7 that you do not get under Windows XP and vice-versa. Just like what you are seeing. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
