[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All
I am currently working on a study into Xindice and am looking to ascertain the the different uses of Xindice as a database and was wondering if you could spare a few minutes of your time to answer some questions?
1 - What is the primary use or uses of Xindice? For example, is it for commercial , University projects, personal or some other type of project?
Two commercial projects - one going live currently which is using 1.1b3 in an unmodified form and one in development which is using 1.1b3 with full text indexing added. We're contributing the FT code back to the project.
2 - What type of documents are being stored - data-centric or document centric?
I'm not sure if I fully understand the question but I think data-centric is the answer in both cases.
3 - What is/are the subject area/areas of the documents being stored?
UK local government.
4 - Is round-tripping an issue?
Not really.
5 - Is there a frequent need to query and update documents on a fine-
grained/fragment level?
No.
6 - Is Xindice being used for small projects with local users or is it being used for large scale projects where users are potentially global?
In both cases the users will be national (UK)
7 - Please provide additional information you deem useful
We're enjoying working with Xindice and looking forward to being able to extend it to suit our needs and, in cases where the broader user community is interested in the fruits of that work, contributing code back to the project.
We're already committers on Tomcat (actually jakarta-tomcat-connectors) so this is a natural extension of that work for us.
-- Andy Armstrong, Tagish
