OpenOffice API: URL seems to be an unsupported one

Question

I get this exception for a seemingly valid URL:

document = componentLoader.loadComponentFromURL(templateURL, "_blank", FrameSearchFlag.CREATE, new PropertyValue[0]);

Called with templateURL being:

file:///var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/convert/WEB-INF/template.odp

BTW: the same code runs well on windows. (Of course diff URL is generated).

Edit: For URLs like:

private:factory/simpress

I get the same error.

Answer 1

You get this error message when the corresponding application (Calc, Writer etc.) is not installed in your system.

I originally tried to install the (Debian) metapackage openoffice.org-headless which did not contain any of the individual programs, only the core infrastructure.