On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 09:37 PM, Michael Westbay wrote:
The point I'm trying to make is, my impression is that, with the embedded
initiative, Xindice is already headed toward being able to run in a servlet
engine if that's where someone wants to run it. That's most likely where
I'll run it. But that shouldn't be the only place it may run. (Is that what
you're asking by "moving Xindice to run under a servlet engine"?)
What I was referring to is simply that Xindice has to this point always been considered a server. Because of this we need to continue to ship something that runs as a server, so we need to pick a mechanism to enable that. This doesn't in any way limit other ways of running it, in fact it should make it quite clear that it is simple to create a custom server if you want. The current code is too complex, so complex in fact that most people didn't even know that you could run Xindice embedded, or that you could run it in another server environment. I'm not exactly sure what format we'll ship things in, but we have to ship some form of server and I don't want to continue using the current overly complex code to do it. This is what I meant, it should be perfectly in agreement with what you're saying. At least that is my intention. Also once we update the documentation there will be a much greater focus on embedding and general flexibility so hopefully it will be clear that there isn't just one way to do it. In the past that definitely wasn't clear.
-- Michael Westbay Work: Beacon-IT http://www.beacon-it.co.jp/ Home: http://www.seaple.icc.ne.jp/~westbay Commentary: http://www.japanesebaseball.com/forum/
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