com.sun.star.comp.helper.BootstrapException: com.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException

while connecting to open office from another application (PhpBridge custom servlet in my case).

Here’s the original code i was using

BootstrapSocketConnector.bootstrap(installationPath);

Here how I got around it.

List<String> oooOptions = OOoServer.getDefaultOOoOptions();
oooOptions.add(“-headless”);
oooOptions.add(“-nofirststartwizard”);

The -headless & -nofirststartwizard are important. In linux, the “headless” package must be separately installed.

Next, do the following

OOoServer oooServer = new OOoServer(installationPath, oooOptions);
BootstrapSocketConnector bootstrapSocketConnector = new BootstrapSocketConnector(oooServer);
XComponentContext context = bootstrapSocketConnector.connect();

Once you have a componentContext, you’re all set and good to go!

Their homes they built, walls high and strong,

Heavily armed guards to protect them along;

But, all stood helpless before death, you know!

And lost in their struggle to survive, you know!

Dragged into graves from those castles were they

Into narrow, dark depths where, unfortunate, they lay;

‘Gone is your glory, your splendour, O where?’

Cried a voice, ‘your throne, your crown, O where?’

Luxury and lust were certainly not new

Thick parlour curtains always hid them from view;

Defeated, despised, stinking corpses today

In graves of dust, were they left to decay;

The dust they spat on, now above them lay,

Those faces of lust, just buried away;

Their bellies they filled with rich sumptuous food,

Now graves they filled, recording nothing good;

Gluttonous they remained for years on end,

Now for their deeds, in the grave, they fend!

Here’s what i used to get before it “hung”

[root@xxxx ~]# yum install mod_dav_svn
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
* base: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
* epel: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
* extras: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
* updates: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package mod_dav_svn.x86_64 0:1.4.2-4.el5_3.1 set to be updated
–> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
mod_dav_svn x86_64 1.4.2-4.el5_3.1 base 70 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 70 k

Host is not communicating for more than 15 seconds. Still waiting….

Warning: Aborting this operating will close the connection.

As it turned out, it was waiting for user input

“Is this ok[y/N]“

Solution: ? The “-y” flag of yum

yum-y install mod_dav_svn

Train yourself in good behavior with regards to what you dislike in others.

- Imam Ali (a.s)

Someone asked Jesus as to who was the most superior among men. He bent to the ground and taking two handfulls of the earth in both his hands said,

“Both are the earth but , i.e. all men are equally from the dust and shall return to it but the more superior one in the view of God is the one who is more pious”

The charity which God loves the most, i.e. which is more readily accepted by God is the peace re-established between two quarreling men or groups.

Allah, the Exalted, does not look at your faces, but He looks at your hearts.

- Imam Ali ar-Ridha (Bihar al-Anwar, vol 67, p. 241)

People of Ma’arifat (recognition) see that the worldly people are more concerned about physical death. While more serious is the death of their hearts within their living bodies.”

- Imam Ali (Nahjul Balagha, Sermon 259)

Here’s that snippet

 // Allow modules to change the weight of specific implementations but avoid
 // an infinite loop.
 if ($hook != 'module_implements_alter') {
 drupal_alter('module_implements', $implementations[$hook], $hook);
 }

All that needs to be done is to implement the hook hook_module_implements_alter specified here. Effectively by re-ordering the list of modules, you also change the order in which the hooks are called.

Here’s how I did it,

function mymodule_module_implements_alter(&$module_list, $context){
 if($context === "node_insert"){
 $temp = $module_list['mymodule'];
 // Removing the mymodule key/value
 unset($module_list['mymodule']);
 // Adding the mymodule key value as the last member in the list
 $module_list['mymodule'] = $temp;
 }
}

One point to remember is to declare the “module_list” variable as a reference variable with the “&”, or you’ll be modifying a local variable
Thats it. Done!