On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:50 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Howard W. Smith, Jr. wrote: > >> Hi Jeffrey, >>> >>> Yes, I now get it. Thanks for the lesson on Windows Networking (I thought >>> I knew well) and thanks to Andre as well. >>> You also said that if all I wanted to do was make a list of mapping >>> appear >>> in an html page (without actually using them >>> in your application), you can just fake it as previously discussed. I >>> think I missed that part. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Pat >>> >>> >>> >>> Glad you understand now. I was about to provide a response similar to >> Andre's previous response. This all reminds me of a similar situation >> within my TomEE/Tomcat7 web app. >> >> On my development server (Windows 2008 server 64-bit), I am 'always' >> logged >> in and coding/etc, which means I always test the web app via NetBeans >> (which provide the infamous 'console' that is mentioned throughout this >> thread). I developed this piece of code that uses JODConverter to call >> OpenOffice.org at/via port 2002, and this allows my web app to convert >> files to PDF after enduser uploads certain documents (Word docs, excel, >> etc...). So, that all works on my development server. Why? because I am >> logged in everytime while testing and the app is 'never' running as a >> Windows 'service' on my development server. >> >> So, i deploy my web app to target/production server (Windows 2003 Server >> and/or Windows Server 2008). For many months now, I have wondered 'why' >> the >> code will not work on the 'production' server but it runs/works >> 'everytime' >> on my development server. Finally, recently (after many months of research >> and/or multiple attempts of trying to debug/resolve the problem), I either >> read somewhere or finally realized that the code will 'not' work because >> my >> web app is running as a service, and for whatever reason (of course a >> 'Windows' reason), the code will 'not' work while running as a service. >> >> So, I am left to coding another implementation to convert files after >> upload, use another library, and ditch the JODConverter/OpenOffice.org >> approach. >> >> > Maybe of interest to you : I do use JODConverter+OpenOffice in the > circumstances which you describe (and for the same reason), within a perl > program running as a Windows Service, and it works fine. I don't think I > have ever precisely done that on a Windows 2008 Server, but I do have that > running on various other Windows platforms (Win2K, WinXP, Windows-7, > Windows 2003 server) since years, and have converted hundreds of thousands > of documents with it. > (A bit on the side : you may also want to have a look at LibreOffice, > which does away with the need of a JODConverter-like interface; but I do > not know (yet) how good it is at generating PDFs from MS-Office documents). > > If I can help, we can continue this discussion off-list if you want. > > Interesting indeed and thanks for the response. I knew (and was confident) that there was way to get it all working, that I was tried-and-tried for months (multiple attempts) to get it working, and still, i have 'not' ultimately removed it from the app...lol. I've added many things to the app and endusers are not using all the nice bells and whistles that I have added. they pretty much use what they really need to complete day-to-day operations. sometimes, i add things to the app that I know would be useful (for power users...like myself). > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@tomcat.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
