Hi Bryan, bryan rasmussen wrote:
> Hi, > > I have an application where I need to automate MS Office to do > rendering of MS Office documents, for some of the reasons outlined in > this knowledgebase document from MS > (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757) I think OO would be > preferable for this, my specific worries involve: > > 1. Office Applications assume that they are being run under an > interactive desktop, and may in some circumstances need to be made > visible for certain Automation functions to work properly. If an > unexpected error occurs, or an unspecified parameter is needed to > complete a function, Office is designed to prompt the user with a > modal dialog box that asks the user what they want to do. A modal > dialog box on a non-interactive desktop cannot be dismissed, which > causes that thread to stop responding (hang) indefinitely. Although > certain coding practices can help reduce the likelihood of this > occurring, they cannot prevent it entirely. > > 2.(Office Applications ) offer little scalability as a server-side > solution, and have fixed limits to important elements, such as memory, > which cannot be changed through configuration. More importantly, they > use global resources (such as memory mapped files, global add-ins or > templates, and shared Automation servers), which can limit the number > of instances that can run concurrently and lead to race conditions if > they are configured in a multi-client environment. > > > Since I need to automate without user interactivity and with the need > to run a lot of these instances concurrently I have the imperfectly > formed opinion that I would like to have confirmed, with hopefully > some documentation that shows the correctness of the opinion, that > opinion is that OO would be preferable to this task. Anyone know if > that is correct or incorrect? Without knowing which APIs you will use nobody can give you any promises about that, only a general statement that basically OOo API calls don't need a visible document window or user interaction. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
