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(a)xwiki.org em nome de Marius Dumitru Florea
 Enviada: qua 23/3/2011 18:45
 Para: users(a)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/f4f0e8328d…
 .
 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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