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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... -- 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 > To: [log in to unmask] > 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 > -- Susan Teague Rector Web Applications Manager Library Information Systems VCU Libraries 804.828.0032 | [log in to unmask]