Eric, I was thinking last night - you mentioned not being able to do an applet b/c of access to the file directory. You could do a signed applet that would allow your users to connect to the java app. I think Tomcat, etc. is overkill for a CD...
-- susan Binkley, Peter wrote:
This was more or less what I was thinking of in my hackfest suggestion to embed Lucene in a Firefox extension; but I hadn't thought of using it to access pre-distributed Lucene indexes. That might be very handy. (Though a Firefox-only approach probably isn't what Eric has in mind). Would it be stretching METS too far to encode the digital objects, the Lucene index, and Firefox and the extension as the software needed to access the stuff? (XULRunner would provide a non-browser-based way to deploy the same functionality). Peter -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hickey,Thom Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] java application on a cd Seems to me you need a JavaScript version of the Lucene search engine. I've done search-only subsets of search engines, and they are a lot less complex than the whole thing. People have done similar things (like Google's JavaScript version of XSLT). It takes some work, but then all you need to run is a JavaScript browser. --Th -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CODE4LIB] java application on a cd Can someone here tell me about the feasibility of implementing a particular Java application on a CD, described below. For a good time I would like to distribute my Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts on an operating system independent CD. Here is how I see it being implemented: 1. Collect electronic texts 2. Mark them up in TEI 3. Transform them into HTML and/or PDF 4. Create an author index in HTML 5. Create a title index in HTML 6. Use Lucene to index the texts 7. Write a Java program to search the index and return hyperlinks to the texts 8. Put the whole lot on a CD 9. Give it away With the exception of Step #7, I know the plan is implementable, but how can I do Step #7? This is what I want to do with Step #7. First I create an HTML form looking something like this: <form action='search.java' method='get'> <input type='text' name='query' /> <input type='submit' /> </form> When people click the submit button the contents of query get passed to search.java and executed. The search results are formatted into HTML and returned to the browser for display. Is such a program implementable? Can a program like search.java get input from a form like this without the need of an intermediate HTTP server? Apparently Java applet technology will not work in this environment because applets are not allowed to read from the local file system. -- Eric "Wishing I Was @ Access2006" Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame
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