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Quartz is no doubt the most popular open source Java library for job scheduling. It's been around for many years and includes advanced features like clustering.Its API is a bit…

I'm extremely pleased to announce that Terry Liang of Polonious volunteered to resume the development of JODReports - that I started in 2004 and abandoned a few months ago -…

I got myself an Android phone (the shiny new HTC Magic) a few weeks ago. Could I resist the temptation to write an app for it? Of course not. So…

Maven 2.0 has become a very popular tool for building and managing Java projects. JODConverter itself is build using Maven, and the library is available as an artifact from the…

t's new! It's here! It's the best JODConverter release available. The version number even matches the latest OpenOffice.org version, but that's pure coincidence. New Features More flexibility in setting custom…

JODConverter 2.1.1 is now available for download from SourceForge.net. The main focus for this release is... that the project name has changed! JOOConverter, for Java OpenOffice.org Converter, becomes JODConverter, for…

Creating a SysV-style init script for starting OpenOffice.org is not difficult but the details depend on your particular OS flavour/distribution. The tricky part is that OpenOffice.org requires an X server…

There's no doubt that the Google Web Tookit is one of the most interesting frameworks in the Java world for developing AJAX web applications. But no single library or framework…

Occasionally a piece of software introduces a new feature that is so useful that it instantly becomes a must, to the point that you ask yourself how you managed to…

To build JODConverter you need Maven 2. Check out the source code from the Subversion repository hosted by SourceForge.net: $ svn co https://jodconverter.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jodconverter/trunk/jodconverter jodconverter Or to check out a particular…

In the current "Mobile Web Revolution" it is increasingly important to test webapps not just for traditional desktop web browsers, but for phone web browsers too. The Android SDK (unlike…

First of all let's make one concept clear: FileUploads don't use XmlHttpRequest as most AJAX requests do. A file upload needs to be a multipart request, and you can't do…

Run As a Standalone Web Server The easiest way to run JODConverter as a web application is to download the jodconverter-tomcat-x.y.z.zip distribution that includes the Apache Tomcat 5.5 web application…

It seems that with Java 6.0 the Tomcat Windows Service Installer just doesn't do what its name implies: it always fails to start Tomcat as a Windows Service. Unless you…

Since version 2.1.0, JODConverter supports the ability to specify custom export options when converting. This applies to any output format, but is especially useful for PDFs. Custom options can be…

Using JODConverter in your own Java application is very straightforward. The following example shows the skeleton code required to perform a one off conversion from a Word document to PDF:…

From version 2.1 the JODConverter webapp includes a very simple "web service", meaning a way of invoking the converter service programmatically from a remote client written in any language using…

To use JODConverter from the command line, download the jodconverter-2.2.0.zip distribution, unpack and execute the jodconverter-cli-2.2.0.jar JAR with java. To convert a single file specify input and output files as…

Creating a Windows Service lets you have an OpenOffice.org instance always running as a service and listening for connections. That's what you usually want to do on a server machine.…

JODConverter needs to connect to a running OpenOffice.org instance in order to perform the document conversions. This is different from starting the OpenOffice.org program as you would normally do. OpenOffice.org…