Eric,

I was thinking last night - you mentioned not being able to do an applet
b/c of access to the file directory.
You could do a signed applet that would allow your users to connect to
the java app. I think Tomcat, etc. is overkill for a CD...

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susan



Binkley, Peter wrote:
> This was more or less what I was thinking of in my hackfest suggestion
> to embed Lucene in a Firefox extension; but I hadn't thought of using it
> to access pre-distributed Lucene indexes. That might be very handy.
> (Though a Firefox-only approach probably isn't what Eric has in mind).
> Would it be stretching METS too far to encode the digital objects, the
> Lucene index, and Firefox and the extension as the software needed to
> access the stuff? (XULRunner would provide a non-browser-based way to
> deploy the same functionality).
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Hickey,Thom
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:31 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] java application on a cd
>
> 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
>
> -----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
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>

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