Hi Ramon,

Asiri, when the web service mode turns available on next versions of
> JODConverter, will it be possible to use it in XWiki, in the way to have
> OpenOffice and XWiki on different servers? I'm so interested on it because
> in our company here, it's not (and I believe it won't be) possible to share
> our production container server with an openoffice instance (policy
> restrictions higher than we can deal), and we do have a dedicated openoffice
> server up and running, on another machine, for other applications. We're
> running XE2.4.3 without Office Importer functionalities and the main reason
> to upgrade to the last version, among others, would be the opportunity
> window do activate this amazing feature, what would substantially boost our
> XWiki experience.
>
> Aren't there any possibilities or approaches in the short term, at all?
>

I think I proposed one possible alternative sometime back:

1. On the machine you are running openoffice server, you'll have to setup a
tomcat server and a small servlet. This servlet will take care of converting
office documents into html and zipping them up (because the conversion could
result in multiple artifacts) and streaming them back to the client who
invoked the servlet.

2. Modify officeimporter codebase so that OfficeConverter (IIRC) now instead
consumes this servlet for document conversion instead of the local
openoffice server.

IMO this solution is not that hard to implement but as I remember nobody
commented on this approach back then.

Thanks.

- Asiri



> Thanks in advance for your precious help.
>
>
> Ramon Gomes Brandão
>
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: [email protected] em nome de Marius Dumitru Florea
> Enviada: qua 23/3/2011 18:45
> Para: [email protected]
> Assunto: Re: [xwiki-users] External OpenOffice Server
>
> Hi Ramon,
>
> On 03/23/2011 11:22 PM, Ramon Gomes Brandão - SERINT wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
>
> > Is it possible to use an external OpenOffice Server that is not on the
> same machine as the XWiki instance, i.e., not local? If so, how can I do
> that? If not, can't I even test this possibility? External local one is
> running in my test place, but in production environment this probably won't
> be the case.
>
> We're using http://code.google.com/p/jodconverter/ to connect to the
> OpenOffice server and convert office documents. Here's a discussion
> regarding your problem on their google group, raised by Asiri, the
> person who wrote the xwiki-office-importer module:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/jodconverter/browse_thread/thread/f4f0e8328d422fbf
> .
>
> Using a remote OpenOffice server had some limitations at that point.
> Maybe you can check if the latest version of jodconverter was improved
> in this direction.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Marius
>
> >
> > I'm using XE 2.7.1 and I'll test also XE 3.0M3.
> >
> > Ramon Gomes Brandão
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