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Eric: I'm less familiar with java, but if you're not tied to the architecture there may be a few other options; The last release of Greenstone software could run a repository from a CD. Searching included. I've seem code examples of a portable, run on CD, web platform that runs on the .NET platform. It's been awhile and I can't remember specifics. I once wrote a C# application that hosted the IE browser within a windows form. This got me past any sandbox issues and I served up html via xml/xsl. It had full-text searching. Perhaps something similar can be done in Java. You can (also) create .htc files for IE that presume a trusted environment so you are not limited by the usual security constraints. Then you could use javascript for linking rather than form submissions. I suppose I'm talking around your specific requirements but maybe there's an approach in here to consider. It's been awhile since I thought about this kind of thing; an interesting challenge. Eric Muzzy American Museum of Natural History Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > 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