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Hello, Maybe you could use SQLite? That last version has full-text support. Sam On 13-okt-06, at 19:51, 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 >