September 07 2006 by
Andrew Powell
It's dead.
The guy whose javabean I was using wasn't happy that I was just wrapping it in a webservice and not adding primary functionality and offering it for free.
I am unhappy about this and will proceed to throw this guy under the bus for what I consider to be poor service and an inaccurate licensing policy.
I purchased what I thought was a "Single Server License" from
here. I
read the license thouroughly to make sure I was going to be in compliance. When I determined I was going to be in full compliance, I went ahead and paid my money and got the jar file. I rebuilt my web service to use this engine and went about my business. I got into a discussion with the creator about how I was using the engine. He promptly told me I was in violation of the license. I told him that I had read the license and thought I was not in violation. He finally sends me a copy of the license which is COMPLETELY different than the one on the website and threatened legal action if I didn't shut the service off. He also told me that there is no such thing a "server license" for this java bean. Take a look at the betasoft website, it's there.
So, just to be safe, I shut the service off.
Rather than waste my time with a nasty legal battle, I'm just killing this.
If you have a java-based RTF to HTML converter that you want to donate, please contact me and let me know. Otherwise, this is dead and will not be revived.
Posted in ColdFusion | General | RTF2HTML | 
2 comments
August 08 2006 by
Andrew Powell
The new RTF2HTML webservice is now online. It has been upgraded to a java based platform from a COM based platform. This was necessitated by my moving my server from Windows 2000 to Linux.
This upgrade shows the beauty of web services. For people using the service, it is an invisible upgrade. The invocation of the service is exactly the same as it was before. The paramters you pass in have not changed, nor has what it returns. The service has been sped up quite a bit. File size has dropped from 5KB to 931 bytes. The java bean engine used has proven, in testing, to be MUCH faster than the the old COM implementation. Basically, if you are using this webservice, your application just got an enhancement and you didn't even have to write any code.
Webservices are our friends.
My next goal is to integrate this webservice into the mach-ii framework, but that will come later.
RTF2HTML Website
View the
WSDL.
Posted in ColdFusion | General | RTF2HTML | 0 comments
July 21 2006 by
Andrew Powell
I didn't realize how many people were actually using my RTF2HTML webservice. I understand that since the migration to the new server, it is not working. If you would let me know what your problem is and what error you are getting, please post it to the comments and I will do my best to work with you on it. If you are looking to access the service, the WSDL is:
http://www.infoaccelerator.net/cfc/rtf2html.cfc?wsdl
Posted in ColdFusion | General | Linux | RTF2HTML | 0 comments
July 21 2006 by
Andrew Powell
Ok, so the problem has been diagnosed. I need to completely re-write the service to use a java object instead of a com object. This should be done relatively quickly. I just need my license for the engine to arrive and we're set to go.
The WSDL will remain the same and the service will be invoked the same. I just need to update the underlying engine.
This is just one of the casualties of upgrading to Linux from Windows servers!
Posted in ColdFusion | Linux | RTF2HTML | 0 comments