> According to your below remarks, I have the impression
> that a simple search engine (and not a search engine API)
> would be sufficient, because you just want to index text
> based file types (like HTML or XML files).
>

indeed, it's just the website's pages .. the documentation in fact,
perhaps this will change in the future, but today I wouldn't know why.



> I just wanted to make the point that Lucene ...
>
>   - Is an API and not a search engine, so it requires
>     programming.
>   - Lucene might be an overhead if you just need to
>     index text files. Does it make sense to code
>     Java if you could have the same by just typing ...
>

okay, so Lucene would take preference when indexing more complex
resources, and for simpler solutions htdig would be ideal ?

Since I'm not familiar with this stuff I am having a hard time
understanding the details of the differences between those two families of
search engines.


>> could you please tell us why ? sorry if asking this offends you, but we
>> are really interested to know, and that way we have a certain peace of
>> mind.
>>
>
> These are the steps of a possible htdig installation process:
>
>   $ > rpm --install htdig-someversion.rpm
>
>   * create a custom htdig configuration file based
>     on an example configuration file.
>   * customize some htdig templates to fit the CI
>     of the AndroMDA web site (usually header/footer.html
>     wrapper.html and syntax.html)
>   * add a CRON job that will index your web site
>     on a regular basis.
>

okay, thanks.


>   - If there is a guy having plenty of knowledeg about
>     setting up htdig and some knowledge about Lucene,
>     why not stick with his recommendation to use htdig?
>     Especially if you just want to index text files.
>

the reason was that other sites with the same needs seem to have chosen
for Lucene anyway, I would like to know why they did that.

also, we just like to have a homogenous environment, where everything can
be run in JBoss/Tomcat for example .. perhaps there are solutions designed
to target that area. Open-source Java is a plus.

> This is my offer:
>
>   - I will setup a search engine that does not require
>     programing based on a API.
>   - I will setup a search engine that is completly
>     functional within less than two or three days.
>   - I will setup a search engine that does not need much
>     maintenance.
>   - If there is evidence that the search engine that
>     I did install does not fit your needs, I will finally
>     install and maintain Lucene.
>

I will confer with the team, we're not sure we can have root privileges on
the server (it's hosted on the ISP's infrastructure)

-- Wouter



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