No please note that one single OO-Instance can only handle one single
conversion process => OpenOffice can not deal with multiple threads from
external. You need to implement a request broker. There are plenty
examples out there e.g. one writen in python, ...

Tom

Gascoigne Thomas wrote:
> Thanks a lot. Just one last thing, I'm assuming that the server will
> allow (and handle performantly) multiple concurrent requests to open and
> extract text from (different) documents? Cheers, Thomas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent Gibson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 18 May 2006 10:22
> To: dev@api.openoffice.org
> Subject: RE: [api-dev] Re: Get a word doc as a java String
> 
> I may be wrong, but no matter what you will need the
> server running, the only question is how transparent
> it is to you, if you use the bean examples or
> something called nice office access (not very well
> documented in english though) then the connection
> handling is relativley transparent, they will kick
> start the server, (but you will probably not be able
> to bring it down again. I use macros to do that.)
> Otherwise you will need to start the server from hand
> listenning to a port. 90% of the effort is getting
> that connection and getting that document open.
> 
> --- Gascoigne Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Cheers Kent,
>>
>>Just another quick one before I give it a try. To do
>>this simple text
>>extraction task should it be possible to use an OO
>>api in process by
>>just including necessary jars or will it required a
>>full OO 'server'
>>running either locally or remotely?  
>>Thanks, Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Kent Gibson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>Sent: 17 May 2006 18:36
>>To: dev@api.openoffice.org
>>Subject: Re: [api-dev] Re: Get a word doc as a java
>>String
>>
>>it really won't be too tricky. You will need to
>>connect, and then convert your document. There are
>>examples for connection and conversion (filters). Be
>>sure to look in the java examples directory of the
>>sdk.  
>>
>>Be sure to also look on the openoffice snippets
>>page,
>>there are some bootstrapping classe which will get
>>you
>>up and runny very quickly. other than that you will
>>probably have to be a bit more specific. 
>>
>>good luck
>>
>>--- Gascoigne Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>I need to turn MS Word documents into plain text
>>
>>so
>>
>>>that they can be
>>>indexed for searching purposes. Would the Open
>>>Office UNO api provide
>>>
>>>a relatively straight forward and painless way to
>>
>>do
>>
>>>this. I basically
>>>need to read word docs in and get a java String
>>>representation of the
>>>doc out. Any advise greatly appreciated, Thomas
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>
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