GWT + JODConverter

[rohit jain]

Hello,
I want to make a simple universal document converter and after going
through the reviews for this amazing library I'll use this only.
Now I want to use GWT to make the UI of the application. and use
JODConverter at the server.
But after looking at lot of jodconverter related documentation i'm a
bit confused.
Can you give me some pointers how should I go about using JODConverter
at my server end?

[rohit jain]

To get started i installed open office made a doc test.odt and used
the command
java -jar jodconverter-core-3.0-beta-3.jar test.odt test.pdf

This gave me an error that my openoffice.org is not at c:/program
files.
So I tried installing office there but couldn't do that. It installs
in c:/program files(x86)
So I just copy pasted my openoffice folder to c:/program files and
then the command worked. Now when I try to run a simple java code fore
conversion.
This is what I get



Jul 15, 2010 4:02:59 PM
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ProcessPoolOfficeManager <init>
INFO: ProcessManager implementation is WindowsProcessManager
Exception in thread "main"
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeException: failed to start
and connect
at
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.startAndWait(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:
61)
at
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.PooledOfficeManager.start(PooledOfficeManager.java:
102)
at
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ProcessPoolOfficeManager.start(ProcessPoolOfficeManager.java:
59)
at ImDocConverter.docuConverter.action(docuConverter.java:15)
at ImDocConverter.fileConverter.main(fileConverter.java:41)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException:
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeException: could not
establish connection
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source)
at
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.startAndWait(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:
59)
... 4 more
Caused by: org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeException: could
not establish connection
at
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.doStartProcessAndConnect(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:
123)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.access
$000(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:31)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess
$1.run(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:55)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown
Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown
Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: a process with
acceptString 'socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2002' is already running; pid
5488
at
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeProcess.start(OfficeProcess.java:
59)
at
org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.doStartProcessAndConnect(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:
112)
... 8 more


Please help.

[Mirko Nasato]

Did you read the Getting Started page?

http://code.google.com/p/jodconverter/wiki/GettingStarted

The second Java example shows you how to set officeHome, without
having to copy OpenOffice.org to a different folder.

At the end it mentions where to find a sample webapp.

Make sure you kill any soffice.bin processes left around from previous
tests (e.g. using Task Manager) if you get that "process already
running" exception again.

Kind regards

Mirko