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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