[GRLUG] UNO / Remoting LibreOffice [Was: May WMLUG Meeting Reminder]

[Benjamin Flanders]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 15:44 -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 01:54:55PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 13:00 -0400, Steve Romanow wrote:
>> > > I have f15 liveusb in both gnome3 and kde spins I will bring.
>> > > Can you also cover running LO as a daemon?
>> > That's pretty simple -
>> > USERNAME='wwwrun'
>> > SOFFICE_PATH='/usr/lib/ooo-2.4/program'
>> > SOFFICE_ARGS='-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp'
>> > SOFFICE_BIN='soffice.bin'
>> > sudo -u $USERNAME $SOFFICE_PATH/$SOFFICE_BIN $SOFFICE_ARGS > /dev/null &
>> > Much less complicated in 2.0 and later; no fussing about with headless,
>> > framebuffers, etc...
>> Running LibreOffice as a dæmon does...what?
>
> Yes, the application will run and listen on a socket.  It provides a
> COM/CORBA like remote-object framework called UNO.  All
> OpenOffice/LibreOffice applications are just manipulating UNO objects.
> Then you can use various UNO bindings to use LibreOffice from your PHP /
> Python / etc... application.  You can use it to create documents,
> convert documents, print documents, etc... [basically anything
> LibreOffice can do - which is a lot]. Our e-commerce facilities use it
> to produce PDF documents, DOC, and XLS documents..  In general it works
> *much* better than the various document generation libraries that are
> floating around the interwebs;  LibreOffice is a much more highly tested
> solution.
>

that is frickin cool.  Never knew.

Share and Enjoy
Ben




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