The Mozilla foundation may be considering a desktop search implementation <http://computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,97396,00.html?f=x10> :
Having launched the much-awaited Version 1.0 of the Firefox
browser yesterday (see story), The Mozilla Foundation is busy
planning enhancements to the open-source product, including the
possibility of integrating it with a variety of desktop search
tools. The Mozilla Foundation also wants to place Firefox in PCs
through reseller deals with PC hardware vendors and continue to
sharpen the product's pop-up ad-blocking technology.
I'm not sure this is a good idea. Maybe it is though. The technology just isn't there for cross platform search.
I'd have to suggest using Lucene but using GCJ for a native compile into XPCOM components but I'm not sure if GCJ is up to the job here. If this approach is possible then I'd be very excited.
One advantage to this approach is that an HTTP server wouldn't be necessary since you're already within the brower.
Good for everyone involved. No bloated Tomcat causing problem and blazingly fast access within the browser. Also since TCP isn't involved you could gracefully fail when the search service isn't running; you could just start it.
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