By all means, please go ahead. Solr has a tutorial - maybe something like that would be appropriate?
Karl On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Hitoshi Ozawa <ozawa_hito...@ogis-ri.co.jp> wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with Anupam on getting started with ManifoldCF. I'm thinking of > writing up a simple quick guide > because many people are having trouble. I think it would help others if > there was a simple example with > ManifoldCF + Solr + local file + jsp to crawl some files in local directory > (ManifoldCF documents in PDF?) > and search and display results. > > H.Ozawa > > > (2012/02/15 5:23), Karl Wright wrote: >> >> Hi Anupam, >> >> Please post emails like this directly to >> connectors-user@incubator.apache.org. See below for responses. >> >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Anupam Bhattacharya >> <anupam...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello Karl, >>> >>> I am a software programmer in DuPont, Gurgaon, India. Recently, due to >>> the >>> economic instability all over the world the company has decided to go for >>> cheaper Search Engine Applications. Thus we are getting rid of many >>> costly >>> proprietary Search Applications and will be replacing with FAST. >>> >>> Although, I recently came across SOLR search engine& ManiFoldCF >>> Connector >>> >>> framework. Thus, I am currently driving this effort within my company as >>> i >>> am a big supporter of open source technologies. I started my career in >>> Alfresco CMS and now working on Search Technologies. >>> >>> Currently I am facing lots of initial building/deploying/installing >>> issues. >>> I have already referred the url >>> http://incubator.apache.org/connectors/en_US/how-to-build-and-deploy.html >>> Read it multiple times but still face many issues. I downloaded the >>> latest >>> 0.4 version and it seems the documentation is not up to date on the above >>> link. >>> >>> >> >> The online documentation is pertinent to trunk. The documentation you >> want to use is contained within the 0.4-incubating release. Go to >> dist/doc and you will see it there. >> >> >>> >>> Few issues which took me a long time to resolve which can be added in >>> ManifoldCF wiki as learnings for others are listed below: >>> a. No single example is given for running the executecommand.bat with >>> proper >>> arguments. Only list of commands given with parameter defined. >>> >> >> I'm not entirely sure I get this. Do you just want an example in the >> documentation? >> >> >>> >>> b. Setting where and which file for the property manifoldcf.configfile >>> for deploying the war on tomcat with Postgresql database. >>> >> >> The documentation already tells you that you need to add an >> appropriate -D to your tomcat invocation to point to your >> properties.xml file. Tomcat documentation differs from version to >> version and platform to platform on how best to do that, and if you >> run under Windows there's even a service wrapper with a configuration >> UI that allows you to set these parameters. So it's way beyond >> ManifoldCF's mission to describe all that, I think. >> >> >>> >>> c. I am trying to build the Documentum Connector but came to know that >>> some >>> additional environment variables needs to be added for "DOCUMENTUM". >>> Additionally the latest version of documentum uses dfc.properties file >>> while >>> run.bat look for dctl.ini file. >>> >> >> Could you open a ticket in Jira for this issue? >> https://issues.apache.org/jira. It should not be a problem if you >> modify the script temporarily, but we can readily make the script look >> for either of these. >> >> >>> >>> d. postgresql driver is jdbc3 thus it creates problem with JVM6 or above. >>> >> >> We use JDK 6 all the time without problems, so I don't know what you >> are talking about here. >> >> >>> >>> e. I was getting errors during the ant build which tries to delete jar >>> files from lib directory. Don't have the source code right now with me >>> thus >>> cant provide the full path. >>> >> >> It sounds like you were trying to run ant while you still had >> ManifoldCF processes running from the same tree. >> >> >>> >>> f. It was advised in the documentation to set MCF_Home for >>> example_multiprocess project but it seems the build of documentum >>> connector >>> refers to this property differently from run.bat. >>> >> >> Yes, this was noticed and fixed on trunk recently. >> >> >>> >>> Can you please update the Apache ManifoldCF website with the latest >>> installation procedures. Also, It will be very kind of you in the >>> meanwhile >>> if you can send few notes for me to head start the configuration of >>> ManifoldCF, with SOLR& Documentum connector. >>> >>> >> >> The documentation online has been updated to be consistent with trunk, >> so if you want to use the trunk version this might be a good >> opportunity to help clarify the documentation. Either that or you >> will need to stick with the 0.4-incubating release and the >> 0.4-incubating documentation that is part of it; we cannot at this >> time update documentation that has already been released. >> >> Thanks, >> Karl >> >> >>> >>> Looking forward for your help. >>> >>> Thanks& Regards >>> Anupam Bhattacharya >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >
