> Hi Jeffrey, > > Yes, I now get it. Thanks for the lesson on Windows Networking (I thought > I knew well) and thanks to Andre as well. > You also said that if all I wanted to do was make a list of mapping appear > in an html page (without actually using them > in your application), you can just fake it as previously discussed. I > think I missed that part. > > Thanks > Pat > > > Glad you understand now. I was about to provide a response similar to Andre's previous response. This all reminds me of a similar situation within my TomEE/Tomcat7 web app.
On my development server (Windows 2008 server 64-bit), I am 'always' logged in and coding/etc, which means I always test the web app via NetBeans (which provide the infamous 'console' that is mentioned throughout this thread). I developed this piece of code that uses JODConverter to call OpenOffice.org at/via port 2002, and this allows my web app to convert files to PDF after enduser uploads certain documents (Word docs, excel, etc...). So, that all works on my development server. Why? because I am logged in everytime while testing and the app is 'never' running as a Windows 'service' on my development server. So, i deploy my web app to target/production server (Windows 2003 Server and/or Windows Server 2008). For many months now, I have wondered 'why' the code will not work on the 'production' server but it runs/works 'everytime' on my development server. Finally, recently (after many months of research and/or multiple attempts of trying to debug/resolve the problem), I either read somewhere or finally realized that the code will 'not' work because my web app is running as a service, and for whatever reason (of course a 'Windows' reason), the code will 'not' work while running as a service. So, I am left to coding another implementation to convert files after upload, use another library, and ditch the JODConverter/OpenOffice.org approach.
