On Tue 17 June 2003 04:50, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote: ... > We are currently in the process of revising the site, and moving from a > primarily static HTML site (which, with approximately 30,000 documents is > becoming a bit hard to manage in FrontPage) to a PHP/MySQL site using > Lucene for the search function. I was interested to see DocSearcher (which > uses Lucene) included in the suggested programs at Debian-Lex, and decided > to give it a test on my Woody system. > > I started with trying to create a searchable CD of some PDF files, which > seemed to be the most straightforward way to test the program. I have > Blackdown j2re1.3 installed, and was able to run the program with "java > -jar DocSearcher.jar", which created an index in /home/bruce/.docsearcher, > and launched the GUI for DocSearcher > > However, when I tried to run a search for the term "constitutional", I got > no results. I got the following error in the terminal I started DocSearcher > from: > > STATUS:SEARCH STRING:+body:(constitutional)... > java.lang.NoSuchMethodError > at DocSearch.doSearch(DocSearch.java:1727) > at DocSearch.handleEventCommand(DocSearch.java:1002) > at GuiThread.run(GuiThread.java:29) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) > > Knowing almost nothing about Java, I'm not sure what this error means. > Anyone managed to get DocSearcher running on Debian?
I'm using Debian sid, up to date a couple of weeks ago. I've got Blackdown j2re 1.4.1-beta. When DocSearcher searches on "Title and Document Body" it fails to produce results (even though it should), although there is no error message. Searches on "Document Body" alone succeed. I must admit that I haven't used DocSearcher much, but so far it seems to be stable and a worthwhile addition to Debian/Debian-Lex. I'm not entirely clear on where java in Debian is up to. Quoting from Drew Scott Daniels Sarge release issues message[1]: "3 Java (some packages were in contrib/non-free because they wouldn't work with free Java implementations (ie kaffe). kaffe is free but marked [REMOVE], (Sun's jre isn't?), gjc and gij need some work acording to http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01210.html An old, but still relevant java faq is at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq Is Kaffe waiting for a DSA before it's RC bugs are fixed?" So, I assume if DocSearcher is to be packaged for Debian it will be in non-free until something like Kaffe is ready. Jeremy, do you know anything about the java situation? Maybe we need to test DocSearcher with kaffe, gjc & gij. I have zero experience with any of those, but if/when I get some time, I'll give it a try. Matt 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg00112.html
