{"id":31,"date":"2008-02-21T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T01:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.plutext.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/vmware-appliance-lands\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T01:43:52","slug":"vmware-appliance-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/vmware-appliance-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware appliance lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the VMware appliance is mentioned in my last post is <a href=\"\/trac\/umbrella\/wiki\/VirtualAppliance\">now available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its a great way for prospective developers to examine <a href=\"\/docx4all\/docx4all.html\" target=\"_blank\">docx4all,<\/a> and also an easy way for people to work on Alfresco.<\/p>\n<p>The appliance is built around Ubuntu&#8217;s JeOS (&#8216;Just enough Operating System&#8217;), and Eclipse, which also means a desktop (for which we chose Xfce).<\/p>\n<p>A stack of pre-built open source software delivered as an appliance which runs in a free container (eg VMware Server or Player) on your operating system of choice reduces to pretty much zero the cost for new developers to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Its a pity we can&#8217;t deliver a similar appliance for developers wanting to work on our Word 2007 add-in &#8211; developers need Visual Studio, VSTO and Word 2007;\u00a0 it would be great if Microsoft gave their blessing to a freely downloadable virtual appliance which contained these things (perhaps they could ensure that the only way you could launch Word was by running your application from Visual Studio).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t mention plutext-server in the second paragraph (even though you can install it into Alfresco with a single command).\u00a0 Currently, you really need the Word 2007 add-in to work with plutext-server.\u00a0 The barriers to entry for plutext client developers are one  of the reasons we&#8217;re working to make docx4all a fully functioning plutext-client.\u00a0 Stay tuned!\u00a0 In the meantime, we&#8217;ll provide an easy installer for the Word 2007 add-in, so at least you can try the system end-to-end &#8211; provided you&#8217;ve got Word 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the VMware appliance is mentioned in my last post is now available. Its a great way for prospective developers to examine docx4all, and also an easy way for people to work on Alfresco. The appliance is built around Ubuntu&#8217;s JeOS (&#8216;Just enough Operating System&#8217;), and Eclipse, which also means a desktop (for which we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[38,44,43],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-docx4all","category-plutext","tag-alfresco","tag-jeos","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}