Hello, > > >(1) Does the plugin code provide mechanism for running external > program > > >(separate process, not written in java)? This capability would be > > >very useful, since there are many parsers out as standalone tools. > > >Core issue would be pipe stdin, stdout and stderr properly. > > >Byron has expressed the same interest before. > > > > There is already a plugin that demonstrate this. > > The open office plugin that adds 100++ new file formats to nutch > use an > > external open office server. > > This is probably a little different from what I described. > I guess, with your open office plugin, nutch talks to a running > open office instance via uno at certain port? I may be wrong. > What I want is the ability to start up an external program (say, > written in perl) as separate process and pipe in/out bytes through > it. > It might have less to do with plugin, but I want to make sure > it is not impossible with plugin.
You may want to look at http://www.zilverline.org/. I have not tried it yet, but it is a hybrid desktop/web-app written in Java that uses Lucene to index and search local files. It also allows one to call an external app to parse different types of files (e.g. various archive file formats, etc.) Otis ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ Nutch-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers
