On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:58 PM, <robert_w...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > A sufficiently complex business application based on OpenOffice is going > to involve document manipulations at both tiers. For example, we recently > (at IBM) made an insurance solution that involved using Symphony, extended > with a Plugin, submitting documents into a workflow, where they were > introspected and validated using the ODF Toolkit. >
Of course the ODF Toolkit isn't a golden fleece for server side ODF processing. I would rather call it a good compromise offering some room for improvement. If we would have had a choice we would have preferred a headless OO runing on either AIX or z/OS ;) For instances you still have to code a comprehensive amount of XSL stylesheets if using the ODF toolkit. One drawback we faced was that customers created their ODF documents during design time using Symphony and during runtime while mass-producing business correspondence documents the ODF Toolkit generated documents which were not 100% formatted equal to what has been created in Symphony earlier on. Thus our preference to use the same formatting engine (i.e. Symphony/OO) during both design time and run time. Cheers Daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
