Openoffice pipe connection

[Allen_liu]

HI All:
I have a openoffice connection problem. I want to integrate some function to my Application, because I want to implement convert MS Office document format such as doc, xls, ppt to openoffice formats "odt, odp, ods". Openoffice is XML Format. In order to complete this, I have installed Openoffice. In order to connect Openoffice, I used Socket connection; fine. It works fine.

I can convert it successful. In order to close the opening openoffice, I also implement XTerminateListener. So I can close it.

But there is a problem ...if i start openoffice editing some document, but i haven't saved my file. Now I start up my application, it will close the editing file. So it not my wants. I think I have to use pipe connection in openoffice. but I'm lack of information.

Can anyone give me some information or advice?
thanks in advance.

[acknak]

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[hol.sten]

I think I have to use pipe connection in openoffice. but I'm lack of information.

Although my guess is, that you cannot solve your problem by changing a socket connection to a named pipe connection, here are threads covering named pipe connections:

• http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=40263&highlight=pipe+connection.
• Or give the BootstrapPipeConnector from this thread a try: [Java solution] "no office executable found!": http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=2520