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XP/Vista/Office 2007/IE Compatibility Question
Good afternoon. My company, Centocor, is in the process of upgrading
its operating System from Windows 2000 to XP/Vista and its Office 2000
to Office 2007. They have installed on, I'm not sure how many, some
computers Apache Tomcat, version 5.5. Please answer the following
questions at your earliest convenience:
1) Is the software compatible with XP? If not, what is the compatible
version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
2) Is the software compatible with Vista? If not, what is the
compatible version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
3) If the software is not independent of Office 2007, is it compatible
with it? If not, what is the compatible version and what are the costs
involved in upgrading?
4) If the software is not independent of IE, what versions of it are
compatible?
Thanks,
Isabel
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Re: XP/Vista/Office 2007/IE Compatibility Question
Posted by David Fisher <df...@jmlafferty.com>.
Martin,
>> 3) If the software is not independent of Office 2007, is it
>> compatible
>> with it? If not, what is the compatible version and what are the
>> costs
>> involved in upgrading?
> MG>the way TC handles Microsoft Compound Documents such as XLS and
> DOC files are thru POI Apache interface
> MG>http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001180.html
> MG>This common POI interface allows access to HSSF (binary file
> format, .xls) and XSSF (ooxml file format, .xlsx)
> MG>i think its safe to assume POI access to legacy .doc Documents
> and .xls Spreadsheets is assumed
> MG>in other words read access to POI docs is almost assured..write
> capability is another matter
There is NOT as much support as you say - please read the note more
carefully. The Apache POI project is working on OOXML and this support
is limited and in Beta form - POI 3.5 Beta 3 was released just this
Sunday. (Announcement attached below.)
Support for .doc files is nowhere near as robust as .xls,
If you have questions about POI you can send an email to user@poi.apache.org
Regards,
Dave
From the Apache POI Team:
> The POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI
> 3.5 beta 3, our latest beta including OOXML (Office Open XML) support.
>
> Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading
> and
> writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and
> Word. With POI 3.5, it also support the new OOXML formats introduced
> in Office 2007. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details
>
>
> Release Highlights:
>
> POI-SS - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files
> * This common interface allows access to HSSF (binary file format,
> .xls) and XSSF (ooxml file format, .xlsx) in the same way
> * Very similar to HSSF usermodel, allowing easy translation of old
> code support to the new format
> * All of HSSF should support this interface
> * Partial implementation of XSSF for this interface
>
> POI-XSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel 2007 OOXML Format Files
> * partial implementation of high level interface
> * text extraction supported
> * low level, low memory parsing supported
>
> POI-XSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 OOXML
> Format Files
> * text extraction supported
>
> POI-XWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word 2007 OOXML File Formats
> * text extraction supported
>
> In addition, all fixes from the forthcoming 3.2 release (svn trunk)
> are included. This includes a large number of formula fixes and
> improvements, and initial Publisher file format support. For full
> changelog details, and documentation, please see /docs/ in the
> distribution. The documentation on the website reflects the state of
> work on POI 3.2.
>
>
> The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror:
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/
>
> The release is also available from the central Maven repository under
> Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.5-beta3". Note that the
> ooxml support is not available via Maven, as the dependencies are
> not packaged.
>
>
> For the Apache POI Team
> Nick Burch
RE: XP/Vista/Office 2007/IE Compatibility Question
Posted by Martin Gainty <mg...@hotmail.com>.
>
> Good afternoon. My company, Centocor, is in the process of upgrading
> its operating System from Windows 2000 to XP/Vista and its Office 2000
> to Office 2007. They have installed on, I'm not sure how many, some
> computers Apache Tomcat, version 5.5. Please answer the following
> questions at your earliest convenience:
MG>answers prefixed with MG>
>
>
> 1) Is the software compatible with XP? If not, what is the compatible
> version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
MG>TC does not have <in>compatibility issues as long as you stay with basic java -jar bootstrap.jar functionality
MG>If you are using windows binaries such as jsvc and or Windows installer to execute windows startup binaries MG>(such as windows startup services) which modify registry you will have to resolve each issue on as needed MG>basis More information is available at
MG>http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html
>
> 2) Is the software compatible with Vista? If not, what is the
> compatible version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
MG>As this question has been answered before and I encourage you to read this response
MG>http://www.mail-archive.com/users@tomcat.apache.org/msg30394.html
MG>unfortunately as Vista is cost prohibitively expensive for the majority of TC developers many of us cannot
MG>help you with that specific requirement ..keep in mind
MG>Vista is in charge of resources e.g. how Users are created ,who has access to what Folder, Sockets
MG>when vista sees an external process (especially Java.exe) it may disallow
MG>access to that socket (port 8080 may be blocked by Vista firewall)
MG>access to the binaries ..Vista may be disallowing access to java.exe or jspc binaries
MG>access to the folder %CATALINA_HOME% may be blocked by Vista
MG>the security issues of <That installed .NET Framework> will need to be addressed
> 3) If the software is not independent of Office 2007, is it compatible
> with it? If not, what is the compatible version and what are the costs
> involved in upgrading?
MG>the way TC handles Microsoft Compound Documents such as XLS and DOC files are thru POI Apache interface
MG>http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001180.html
MG>This common POI interface allows access to HSSF (binary file format, .xls) and XSSF (ooxml file format, .xlsx)
MG>i think its safe to assume POI access to legacy .doc Documents and .xls Spreadsheets is assumed
MG>in other words read access to POI docs is almost assured..write capability is another matter
> 4) If the software is not independent of IE, what versions of it are
> compatible?
MG>TC by itself is not dependent on any IE version but uses IE for browsing HTML
MG>The question you may want to ask is which version MSXML capabilities will I get with MS Office 07?
MG>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSXML
MG>as you can see you have a choice of only use MXML 5 for Office-07 or use the universally accepted MSXML6
MG>again TC developers use (MSXML) capabilities -generally for XMLHttpRequest transmissions for Ajax
MG>but you may want to consult with certified "Microsoft Office" technicians who do these installations day in and MG>day out for any incompatibilities between (a specific version of) IE and (a specific version of) Microsoft Office
>
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>
> Thanks,
MG>Thanks,
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> Isabel
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AW: XP/Vista/Office 2007/IE Compatibility Question
Posted by Steffen Heil <li...@steffen-heil.de>.
Hi
> Good afternoon. My company, Centocor, is in the process of upgrading its
> operating System from Windows 2000 to XP/Vista and its Office 2000 to
> Office 2007. They have installed on, I'm not sure how many, some computers
> Apache Tomcat, version 5.5. Please answer the following questions at your
> earliest convenience:
>
>
>
> 1) Is the software compatible with XP? If not, what is the compatible
> version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
>
> 2) Is the software compatible with Vista? If not, what is the compatible
> version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
>
> 3) If the software is not independent of Office 2007, is it compatible
> with it? If not, what is the compatible version and what are the costs
> involved in upgrading?
>
> 4) If the software is not independent of IE, what versions of it are
> compatible?
Basically I get the idea, you have no idea what tomcat is all aboout.
Check out it's homepage first.
Upgrading has no costs except for you to learn how to.
Most web applications are compatible with every version of tomcat, but that
depends on your webapps. You need to check those.
Tomcat itself only depends on the JVM, which is already available for any
windows.
Tomcat's service helper may need adjustments, I don't know.
> You not going to have any problems with the above... except that Vista is
alergic to a hell of a lot of good stuff... if you can, try stay on XP...
nothing to do with Tomcat... Vista sucks...
This is off-topic and this list is not a good place to discuss about
advantages or disadvantages of vista.
However I want to note, that there are people, who prefer vista over xp,
like me.
(I agree, the windows explorer made a little step back, but overall it's
IMHO better.)
>
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_RC_1_Software_Compatibil
ity_List
Did you note the RC_1 in the url? Vista is at SP1 and things are different
now.
Also I want to note, that every decent program I use, worked on vista
flawlessly since RC1...
Regards,
Steffen
Re: XP/Vista/Office 2007/IE Compatibility Question
Posted by Johnny Kewl <jo...@kewlstuff.co.za>.
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Subject: XP/Vista/Office 2007/IE Compatibility Question
> Good afternoon. My company, Centocor, is in the process of upgrading its
> operating System from Windows 2000 to XP/Vista and its Office 2000 to
> Office 2007. They have installed on, I'm not sure how many, some computers
> Apache Tomcat, version 5.5. Please answer the following questions at your
> earliest convenience:
>
>
>
> 1) Is the software compatible with XP? If not, what is the compatible
> version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
>
> 2) Is the software compatible with Vista? If not, what is the compatible
> version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
>
> 3) If the software is not independent of Office 2007, is it compatible
> with it? If not, what is the compatible version and what are the costs
> involved in upgrading?
>
> 4) If the software is not independent of IE, what versions of it are
> compatible?
Isabel
You not going to have any problems with the above... except that Vista is
alergic to a hell of a lot of good stuff... if you can, try stay on XP...
nothing to do with Tomcat... Vista sucks...
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_RC_1_Software_Compatibility_List
Have Fun..
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Re: XP/Vista/Office 2007/IE Compatibility Question
Posted by David kerber <dc...@verizon.net>.
ifafjc@aol.com wrote:
> Good afternoon. My company, Centocor, is in the process of upgrading
> its operating System from Windows 2000 to XP/Vista and its Office 2000
> to Office 2007. They have installed on, I'm not sure how many, some
> computers Apache Tomcat, version 5.5. Please answer the following
> questions at your earliest convenience:
>
>
>
> 1) Is the software compatible with XP? If not, what is the compatible
> version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
It runs beautifully on XP. I have it running with identical settings on
Win2k and XP (my development machine is XP, and the production server is
2k).
>
> 2) Is the software compatible with Vista? If not, what is the
> compatible version and what are the costs involved in upgrading?
Yes it can run on Vista, but I have no personal experience as to what
settings adjustments may need to be made, if any.
>
> 3) If the software is not independent of Office 2007, is it compatible
> with it? If not, what is the compatible version and what are the costs
> involved in upgrading?
It neither knows nor cares what versions of office or IE are installed;
there is no connection between Tomcat and office or IE.
>
> 4) If the software is not independent of IE, what versions of it are
> compatible?
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