on 5/29/2001 12:11 AM, Leon Messerschmidt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I added (hopefully) general purpose search engine interfaces to the
> Turbine Services.  I also added an implementation for an open-source search
> engine - Lucene (lucene.sourceforge.net - i think :-)  otherwise just do a
> search for lucene on www.sourceforge.net  Finally I did a webmacro test
> screen, to see how everything works (no problems there).
> 
> Would it be possible to add this interfaces (and maybe a the default lucene
> implementation) to the Turbine project?  I know this might be a lot to ask,
> but I believe that this would really add some value to the framework,
> especially since almost *all* web-applications require some sort of
> information retrieval mechanism.
> 
> I am also working an implementations for other engines like Excalibur
> Retrievalware (very powerful but unfortunately a bit expensive :-).
> 
> Regards
> Leon

I would love to be able to do this, but if there is *anything* that is
specific to Lucene in there, I can't allow it because of license
issues...Lucene is unfortunately GPL.

-jon



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