Hi! Why should they? What could be the performance difference to using other (IMO less-optimized) products like wvWare? OpenOffice works as a server that can be called via a documented protocol. So there wouldn't be any startup times. And the code itself is C++, so it should be rather fast. BTW, Sun is doing exactly this for its Java-based Webtop stuff. They use OpenOffice/StarOffice as a backend library and call it from the Java frontend code. So actually we would not be abusing OpenOffice, but use it as its developers are suggesting. Of course a server with OpenOffice running would need a bit more power and memory than without. But you have to pay a price for new features. And of course you could cache all files, so a Word download file would only be recreated after having changed the underlying XML doc, not for every sinlge download. I am sure that this recreation process (and also the cataloging, which could be even more painful) could be done in a separate thread to make sure that it doesn't block file serving. In general, I'd do a prototype first and test it for performance later. Joachim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan Richter" <srichter@cbu.edu> To: "Joachim Werner" <joe@iuveno-net.de>; <sean.upton@uniontrib.com>; <Dirk.Datzert@rasselstein-hoesch.de>; <zope@zope.org> Cc: "Paul Everitt" <paul@zope.com> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:58 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope & OpenOffice
At 01:29 AM 1/26/2002 +0100, Joachim Werner wrote:
The problem is: Who is going to provide the bindings for the OpenOffice libraries? That would be the most important step to go.
My guess would be that the bindings will be too slow for online handeling.
Regards, Stephan
-- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management
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