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

[David Horwitz]

Thought here - might it also be useful, if possible, to convert on the
fly to ebook format? This might be useful for users of ipads, kindles
and various other devices*

*disclaimer I have ebooks on the brain having just got a kindle

D

On 10/05/2010 03:45 PM, Steven Githens wrote:
> 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
>
>   
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> 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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