Re: Lucene and remote index and java applet, with no java app server

2005-10-12 Thread J. David Boyd
Jon Schuster wrote: > Sorry about that, "download" was a poor word choice. > > By download, I meant that after the applet opens an input stream to the > URL, it will need to read from the stream to get all the index data from > the web server to the user's machine so the applet can perform the > s

Re: Lucene and remote index and java applet, with no java app server

2005-10-10 Thread J. David Boyd
Jon Schuster wrote: > The suggestion that others have made to make the search web based is > generally the preferred route. > > But it is fairly straightforward to make an unsigned applet use a remote > Lucene index. You wouldn't need to write the index and PDF files to the > local disk; you only

Re: Lucene and remote index and java applet, with no java app server

2005-10-10 Thread J. David Boyd
Peter Kim wrote: > I'm not sure about Perl or PHP--perhaps there are some ports of Lucene > that'll let you do that. But the most straightforward way is to just > write a simple Java web application with a servlet that uses an > IndexSearcher to execute a form-entered query and have it return > res

Re: Lucene and remote index and java applet, with no java app server

2005-10-10 Thread J. David Boyd
Dan Armbrust wrote: > J. David Boyd wrote: > >> Here's my dilemma. >> >> For years, we have supplied paper documentation to our customers. Many >> pages of paper. All together, it makes a 3 foot stack when printed. >> >> Also for many years, cu

Lucene and remote index and java applet, with no java app server

2005-10-10 Thread J. David Boyd
Here's my dilemma. For years, we have supplied paper documentation to our customers. Many pages of paper. All together, it makes a 3 foot stack when printed. Also for many years, customers have been asking for docs in electronic format, so, recently, I wrote some Perl scripts that convert our m