On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:20:06AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
Thanks for the link. Just checked, no source yet? John ------------------------------------------------------- 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
