[xwiki-users] External OpenOffice Server
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. I'm using XE 2.7.1 and I'll test also XE 3.0M3. Ramon Gomes Brandão
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/f4f0e8328d4... . 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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Thanks Marius, I'll give a deep look. Regards, Ramon Gomes Brandão -----Mensagem original----- De: users-bounces@xwiki.org em nome de Marius Dumitru Florea Enviada: qua 23/3/2011 18:45 Para: users@xwiki.org 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/f4f0e8328d4... . 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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Hi Asiri / Marius I've been looking around in JODConverter documentation and indeed there's no support for running OpenOffice in a remote Server. The only way I see (in a very near future, I hope) is running JODConverter as the so called "Web Service" mode, which is not available yet on the version we're using in XWiki, right (3.0beta3)? It's said on Issues page: http://code.google.com/p/jodconverter/issues/detail?id=40 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? Thanks in advance for your precious help. Ramon Gomes Brandão -----Mensagem original----- De: users-bounces@xwiki.org em nome de Marius Dumitru Florea Enviada: qua 23/3/2011 18:45 Para: users@xwiki.org 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/f4f0e8328d4... . 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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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: users-bounces@xwiki.org em nome de Marius Dumitru Florea Enviada: qua 23/3/2011 18:45 Para: users@xwiki.org 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/f4f0e8328d4... .
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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2011/3/25 Asiri Rathnayake <asiri.rathnayake@gmail.com>
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: users-bounces@xwiki.org em nome de Marius Dumitru Florea Enviada: qua 23/3/2011 18:45 Para: users@xwiki.org 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/f4f0e8328d4... .
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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Hi, And here is the discussion I mentioned: http://www.mail-archive.com/devs@xwiki.org/msg09117.html - Asiri
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