Hi,
I mean if you consider the OpenOffice server controlling in wiki, you can start/stop/restart it any time you want. But it's also true that this is not going to happen frequently, most of the time users will have autoStart set to true, in which case OOo server will be running from XE startup until someone stops it / XE is shutdown.
An important scenario would be,
* I start XE normally (without OOo server) and since OOo server is not running, wysiwyg editor will be configured not to display the officeimporter fileUpload tab. And then an admin starts OOo server, how long will it take for this information to propagate to wysiwyg?
One refresh to the page. And since the admin's idea is probably to setup the entire wiki and then let users go around edit and everything in it, I'd say that most probably, when the wysiwyg editing would be used, everything is going to be "stable" about this server.
Also, this would prevent server calls overhead: most of the times the isServerRunning() function would return the same thing, which you would query in realtime everytime you load the dialog or smth.
Yes, so I'll go ahead with the configuration parameter. Thanks. - Asiri