G'day guys,
Let me immortalise myself ;) , for I have just finished writing this exact
code!
Check it out at http://www.starfaq.com . It is still in 'beta' so to speak,
so if the server is down, I'm probably just reloading and it will be up in a
minute. We are launching on Monday so please do not give out the URL too
much until then.
We are running on JSP and Servlets. NT4, dual PII 400 machine with IIS4,
JRun and SQL Server 7 backend.
Porting to code from it's current target area (Sun StarOffice) to Servlets
should be very easy indeed, and a great pleasure!
I suggest we set up a mailing list of those interested in contributing, and
hammer out some initial areas? The one thing we don't have at present is a
facility to set up mailing lists. Can anyone offer one? I know Michael has
set one up for the search engine project (a side note, StarFAQ is the reason
I'm on that project - a happy coincidence!)
For now, email me - [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you're interested in
contributing to the Servlet FAQ project in anyway, I'll keep an impromptu
list!
Cheers,
Mike
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From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig R. McClanahan
Sent: Friday, 15 October 1999 4:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DISC: Servlet List FAQ?
Erik Hanson wrote:
> Michael Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >We've got a site already set up with a few of the basics needed for a
good
> >place to host a FAQ, (e.g. servlets, JSP support, MySQL, etc), and we're
> >hosting a project to develop an open-source search engine with
intelligent
> >agent behaviour (smarter than the average search engine, in other words).
> >Might be a good thing to use the search engine to be able to search a
FAQ,
> >as that's usually what I find the problem is with a big FAQ (which I'm
sure
> >a Servlet or Servlet/JSP FAQ would be).
> >
> >This would be a bit of a new twist on a FAQ - more of a knowledge base
for
> >an intelligent search engine than a FAQ. We're planning on going for
> >natural-language queries, which is sure something I'd like to have in a
> FAQ.
> >
> >We can set something up in very short order for basic searches, and it'll
> >get more sophisticated as the search engine project grows up.
> >
> >Comments, anyone?
>
> Sounds like it might be the way to go. A database-based FAQ would probably
> also be easier to maintain than a static one, especially if multiple
people
> are in charge of maintainence.
>
> Erik
>
Speaking on behalf of the Jakarta project (http://jakarta.apache.org), it
would
be really cool if someone would volunteer to create a JSP/servlet based FAQ
application that allowed users to submit their own FAQ entries to the
knowledge
base. Not only could such a thing be used to support the FAQ needs of
mailing
lists like JSP-INTEREST and SERVLET-INTEREST, it could also be used to
maintain
FAQs for various collaberative development projects (like Jakarta) too.
As a starting point for the kind of functionality that would be useful, you
might want to look at the FAQ-O-MATIC application that used by the Java
Apache
Project (http://java.apache.org) as well as many other Open Source
development
projects. The functionality is OK, but it feels kinda wierd to be using a
CGI-based application (written in PERL, no less), with fairly severe
resource
usage issues on the server, when a perfectly good platform for building web
apps is the topic of our conversations here.
Anyone want to immortalize themselves, and earn the eternal gratitude of
many,
by writing and contributing such a thing?
Craig McClanahan
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