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OpenOffice service installation and usage thereof

mruflin — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:42:53 GMT

I'm currently struggling through all the configuration and installation files of different Alfresco 1.3.x versions. One of the things I still can't put together is the OpenOffice service integration. I hope you can clarify some points(I'm talking about Windows installation here)As I understood, OO h

Re: OpenOffice service installation and usage thereof

mruflin — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:21:22 GMT

Ok, I answer some of my questions myself…

Alfresco uses OpenOffice to extract information from Documents as well as to convert documents from one format to another (e.g. pdf). It is an integral part of the application, removing it makes therefore not much sense…

OpenOffice HAS to run all the time - which is not the case in the Windows installer, as OpenOffice is NOT installed as a service. The label of OpenOffice "Start as Service" is therefore in this regards misleading.

To install OpenOffice as a service, other means, for example srvany.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890/EN-US/), have to be used. I might add more information regarding this at a later moment.

Re: OpenOffice service installation and usage thereof

paulhh — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:08:36 GMT

Hi

There is a boot step that can call out to run an OS command - when I played with calling OpenOffice via that on Windows, I never got OOo to stay running in the background. Maybe someone with more batch/script/win knowledge can get that route working. Another option might be OpenOfficePortable, which has some options for how OOo is run (I was going to try this approach again, since it was a while since I last tried). I'll try and dig out the details of the boot call out.

Cheers
Paul.

Re: OpenOffice service installation and usage thereof

paulhh — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:06:52 GMT

org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExecBootstrapBean
org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExecShutdownBean

Need to set the "startupCommands" property with a list of RuntimeExec instances.

The bean has to go in the bootstrap-context.xml file.

Paul.