[Building Sakai] Anyone running headless OO.org in production or pilot?

[Steve Swinsburg]

One of my guys at ANU was looking into it as a way of converting documents from Resources to other formats. There is a JIRA for it. There is a neat java library that wraps a lot of the OO stuff. A Sakai service around this would be excellent. 

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On 05/10/2010, at 1:52, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm curious if anyone here is running a headless openoffice daemon in 
> production or pilot in conjunction with Sakai (or even with different 
> project).  I'm curious about how you've added it to your deployment 
> setup, whether you run it on the same node as Sakai or on a different node.
> 
> It's something I'm investigating to fill in some functionality, and 
> curious how others have gotten it into their deployment environments, 
> since it's more than just a jar file to ram into tomcat.
> 
> Apache POI is nice for really specific tasks, but for anything that 
> needs to keep some aesthetics and be more general it seems to be the way 
> to go.  Google uses it for stuff, and other open source projects (like 
> Etherpad) use it as an engine for exporting things in various office 
> formats and PDF's.
> 
> What I'm currently looking at is allowing instructors in Assignments 2 
> to optionally edit student feedback offline in a format other than HTML 
> and then upload that and have the conversion be halfway decent. (which 
> OO.org is pretty good at).
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
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