I created this fork because I had to do some changes to the original project and I now it is time to share my work with the community.

• Documentation: The JODConverter documentation (work in progress) can be found here.
• SIGAR: This fork does not depend on SIGAR. JODConverter only needs to retrieve office processes (PIDs) and kill office processes (using PID). It should work just fine without SIGAR with the actual process managers base on an older version of JODConverter. But I added the ability to use any process manager you would like to implement. More details on this feature later. For now, just look at the DefaultOfficeManagerBuilder class documentation.
• Dependencies: See this for core project dependencies.
• Tests: JODConverter is supposed to work just fine on Windows, MacOS and Unix/Linux. Any confirmation would be welcome so we could build a list of official supported OS distributions.

compile 'org.jodconverter:jodconverter-core:4.0.0-RELEASE'

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jodconverter</groupId>
  <artifactId>jodconverter-core</artifactId>
  <version>4.0.0-RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

gradlew clean build -x test -x integTest

gradlew clean build -x test -x integTest -PuseOpenOffice

gradlew clean build -x test -x integTest distZip

I cannot say exactly where you could find some similitude between my source code and the one of these forks/projects but here are my favorite/inspiration forks/projects:

• XWiki fork: Nice choice if you can afford using the SIGAR tools (which I couldn't sadly).
• Nuxeo fork: Nice choice if you don't want to use SIGAR and don't came across an unresponsive office process following a timeout exception that drives you crazy.
• documents4j project: Nice choice if you want 100% perfect conversion using MS Office. But work only on Windows out of the box (Local implementation) and not totally free (since MS Office is not free).

@michelole who created a pull request in these two forks with a stress test that made my office process to crash every times! I don't know him but my first commit was when I was able to build my things with his stress test on!!

JODConverter (Java OpenDocument Converter) automates document conversions using LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org.

The previous home for this project is at Google Code, including some wiki pages.