2011/3/25 Asiri Rathnayake <[email protected]> > 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. >
PS: Notice the huge overhead in transferring documents and results up and down to / from the machine running openoffice server, but this is inevitable if you plan to run openoffice server remotely. > > 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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
