Yes the Lucene implementation sounds like a grat way to do this. regards Malcolm
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Bob Schellink <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > > Malcolm Edgar wrote: > >> A great feature to add to click-examples is a search field in the top >> right hand side of the banner. where you can enter in some free text and it >> will display a search results page which lists all the references in the >> application source code (Java, HTML, XML, CSS) and links through to a the >> source viewer page. >> >> When the application start up all the source code could be loaded a map in >> memory which could then be searched using a brute force search. >> > > > Nice idea. We could perhaps look at Lucene which uses an inverted index and > also provide features such as ranking algorithm and search string > highlighting. And since fulltext searching is quite common for websites, it > might be a useful example as well. > > kind regards > > bob >
