[Zope] Zope & OpenOffice

[Joachim Werner]

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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