Hiya again,
Unfortunately although I'd very much like to use Xindice in my software, I've been plagued by constant instabilities in the software which have rendered it virtually unusable to me. For instance, even on a clean install the software will sometimes throw exceptions for me on startup (this is before even creating a new collection), and then proceed to start as normal. If I shutdown the server using the command, and restart it, there will be some different exceptions. Unfortunately it doesn't log exceptions and as I can't scroll back to see what the exceptions are (the stack trace is so long it fills the screen) I can't figure out how to try and fix it. Running the shutdown command (which for some reason asks for a collection context, so i give it /) sometimes works fine, and other times will make the server shut down but also throw a load of exceptions itself - usually it says that the shutdown succeeded "maybe". Adding a collection throws an exception for some reason, but appears to succeed. Then I try it again after deleting it, and it works without an exception!
I don't mean to complain as I know that everyone on the project is a volunteer, but if there are any known stability problems could they be documented with workarounds? Alteratively an open bug database would be nice. At the very least it'd be nice to have some kind of exception handling built in, rather than just dumping a stack trace to the output.
When I figure out how to get Forte to build it, I might have some time to help out and do something about all this stuff i've just been moaning about. Otherwise could somebody please advise what i could do to increase it's stability?
thanks -mike
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