On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:31:04AM -0400, Hickey,Thom wrote:
> Seems to me you need a JavaScript version of the Lucene search engine.
> I've done search-only subsets of search engines, and they are a lot less
> complex than the whole thing.  People have done similar things (like
> Google's JavaScript version of XSLT).  It takes some work, but then all
> you need to run is a JavaScript browser.
>
> --Th
>

The FoxyLucy project at hackfest worked on this very problem -- how to
embed Lucene into Firefox -- and looked into the use of Lucene-WS and
a JavaScript client library.  Their slide show is at
http://hackfest.kicks-ass.net/play/index/3 .

gabe


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Eric Lease Morgan
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:52 PM
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] java application on a cd
>
> Can someone here tell me about the feasibility of implementing a
> particular Java application on a CD, described below.
>
> For a good time I would like to distribute my Alex Catalogue of
> Electronic Texts on an operating system independent CD. Here is how I
> see it being implemented:
>
>    1. Collect electronic texts
>    2. Mark them up in TEI
>    3. Transform them into HTML and/or PDF
>    4. Create an author index in HTML
>    5. Create a title index in HTML
>    6. Use Lucene to index the texts
>    7. Write a Java program to search
>       the index and return hyperlinks
>       to the texts
>    8. Put the whole lot on a CD
>    9. Give it away
>
> With the exception of Step #7, I know the plan is implementable, but
> how can I do Step #7?
>
> This is what I want to do with Step #7. First I create an HTML form
> looking something like this:
>
>    <form action='search.java' method='get'>
>      <input type='text' name='query' />
>      <input type='submit' />
>    </form>
>
> When people click the submit button the contents of query get passed
> to search.java and executed. The search results are formatted into
> HTML and returned to the browser for display.
>
> Is such a program implementable? Can a program like search.java get
> input from a form like this without the need of an intermediate HTTP
> server? Apparently Java applet technology will not work in this
> environment because applets are not allowed to read from the local
> file system.
>
> --
> Eric "Wishing I Was @ Access2006" Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>