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RTF2HTML Webservice is Dead.

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

2 responses to “RTF2HTML Webservice is Dead.”

  1. Seth Says:
    Have you looked at majix? <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/majix/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/majix/</a>

    Here is some code to get majix working.
    <a href="http://www.leavethatthingalone.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/6/11/Using-ColdFusion-to-convert-RTF-to-XHTML">http://www.leavethatthingalone.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/6/11/Using-ColdFusion-to-convert-RTF-to-XHTML</a>
    That example is really basic, but majix might be able to do what you need.
  2. mihaimm Says:
    <p>You could use OpenOffice to convert... well... any document it can open into XHTML. It's not fast but the result is impressive.</p>

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