This is great work, Erik. Did you have in mind that we could create a lightweight Apache Felix process with _only_ the dependencies needed for preview processor?
In other words, can we put this in a container without Sling, Jackrabbit, etc.? Zach On Jul 11, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Erik Froese wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Its been a few months but I actually implemented the Java preview > processor as an OSGi bundle. I filed a ticket for it [1] > > I'm not sure where to go from here. Is this something that could be > included POST 1.4.0? > Should I open a PR so we can review the code? If so, PR against which branch? > > Either way, have a look, give it a go. We'll probably wind up using it > at rSmart. > > Erik > > [1] https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KERN-3021 > > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Carl Hall <c...@hallwaytech.com> wrote: >> I totally agree that we should ally ourselves with other communities. I see >> where we get docsplit from DocumentCloud[1] and we use several other >> libraries for processing that they've most likely contributed to. >> The Java approach is very little custom code compared to the libraries we're >> getting from Apache (tika, sanselan, commons, pdfbox), so we would still >> building on the shoulders of our friendly community giants. >> >> 1 https://github.com/documentcloud/docsplit >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:43 AM, John Norman <j...@caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >>> >>> My recollection (perhaps wrong) is that we got this from Document Cloud >>> and I /think/ Chris Roby found it. Document Cloud seems a very relevant and >>> valuable project. If we were able to help them while helping ourselves, >>> other good things could come from the relationship. My general point is that >>> we are thin on resources and so, in principle, symbiotic relationships are >>> helpful. >>> >>> http://www.documentcloud.org/home >>> >>> John >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 13 Apr 2012, at 17:03, Carl Hall <c...@hallwaytech.com> wrote: >>> >>> I agree with Daniel that our modifications to the preview processor have >>> put its ownership square on us. Was there a community that this script was >>> borrowed from? I thought it was original development that uses various >>> external libraries to do the actual work. This is the approach that Erik is >>> taking with the rewrite using things like Tika (text extraction), Sanselan >>> (images) and a Java port of the python topia.termextract library. >>> >>> I certainly don't deny the speed of development that was realized in >>> creating the PP but the current state of the code is a mess at best. Reuse >>> of libraries in Java is showing a fast rewrite with very little managed code >>> on our part. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Daniel Parry <dan...@caret.cam.ac.uk> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 04:21:36PM -0400, Clay Fenlason wrote: >>>>> I think this response is at best orthogonal to the point John's trying >>>>> to raise, though I gather this kind of reaction must come from a >>>>> buildup of some real frustration around the PP, which I don't mean to >>>>> discount. I also think John was pretty clear about what he was >>>>> suggesting: that there be a conversation with the community we got the >>>>> PP from, if the conversation hasn't happened already, to see if there >>>>> might still be a way to work together before we decide to just own it >>>>> ourselves. >>>> >>>> I'd suggest the way that the preview processor was being extended >>>> (initially a >>>> python server add on, followed by a ruby rewrite for tag extraction) and >>>> the >>>> variety of ruby versions that deployers were using and the methods used >>>> to >>>> deploy it were indicative of a) the OAE community already 'owning' the PP >>>> and b) >>>> as has already been pointed out some standardization needed restoring and >>>> additional functionality added for deployers. Hence, the list was >>>> pinged[0] a >>>> while back to ask about standardizing and extending in java. I'm not sure >>>> of any >>>> other way to contact the original PP community or if such a community >>>> separate >>>> to OAE even still exists? >>>> >>>> Best wishes, >>>> >>>> Daniel >>>> >>>> [0] >>>> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/oae-dev/2012-April/001677.html >>>> >>>> -- >>>> --| Daniel Parry: dan...@caret.cam.ac.uk. www.caret.cam.ac.uk/ |-- >>>> "Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency should >>>> head the list." [John C. 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