On 3/11/2013 11:20 AM, André Warnier wrote:
p...@pidster.com wrote:
On 11 Mar 2013, at 14:21, "André Warnier" <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
So if for some scenarios, it would be useful to use say MS-Word to
produce a PDF version of a document, it is not possible (or very
difficult) to trigger
this from Tomcat when running as a Service.
Eek! Eek I say!
+1. Eek, I tearfully and shamefully agree.
But still 90% or more of corporate internal documents are written as
Word documents, and there is no open-source tool which can perfectly
handle this shamefully proprietary format and convert it to some
non-propietary format that one could still read in 10 year's time, so
what is one to do if one wants to get some money to get one's children
through computer school and pay for their iPhones, he ?
Sigh, I agree if your constraint is "perfectly" then you're pretty much
stuck. However, even Microsoft doesn't deal with their formats "perfectly".
An alternate solution (which I've not played with in a very long time)
could be:
http://poi.apache.org/
This could remove the requirement for interacting with a desktop
application when dealing with some Microsoft formats.
But the main point was that there are cases where running as a Service
is the most appropriate way, and cases where it isn't. And that modern
technology often provides a variety of ways to achieve one's goals at
minimum expense and frustration. And that many times it is not that the
information on how to do something is not available, it is a matter of
not knowing where or how to find it among the clutter. So indicating
some practical alternatives seemed the right thing to do here.
I know how to do the original request in Eclipse and NetBeans, but I
don't have a quick handle on how to do this for Tomcat running as a
Windows service.
There were several hits with a quick search, but since I've not used any
of the projects I'm a bit reluctant to mention them.
. . . . just my two cents.
/mde/
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