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

[Steven Githens]

On 10/05/2010 01:40 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> 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.
>    

Awesome.  Is this the ticket: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18796

I've been looking a bit at JODConverter, is that the wrapper library you 
were thinking of? Or another one?

http://code.google.com/p/jodconverter

Cheers to the max,
Steve

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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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