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