ManifoldCF uses Forrest simply to format its website - for no other purpose.
Karl On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Fuad Efendi <f...@efendi.ca> wrote: > > DBInterfaceMySQL.java: > private static final String _driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"; > - this class (JDBC Driver) was deprecated in 2002... it is now > "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver", Connector/J > http://mmmysql.sourceforge.net/ > " In June, 2002, I joined the fine crew of developers at MySQL AB, and > MM.MySQL is now the official JDBC driver for MySQL! As well as being under a > free software license (LGPL for Connector/J 2.0.14, GPL for Connector/J > 3.0.0 and beyond)...." > > > Oh yes, Forrest is (was) based on Cocoon, and Cocoon provided basic crawler > (and this crawler is now "Droids")... something like that... I don't know > this in depth... but I noticed ManifoldCF mentions Forrest as a web (HTTP) > crawler (connector)? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karl Wright [mailto:daddy...@gmail.com] > Sent: March-14-11 3:32 PM > To: connectors-user@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: History Background > > The project started in 2005, actually, but the version of MySQL it was > originally written to work with was older (obviously). MySQL was almost > immediately dropped in favor of PostgreSQL. > > What MySQL JDBC driver are you referring to? I don't believe there are any > checked into the source tree at this time. > > Forrest was not rolled into Droids. It is an Apache top-level project. See > here: http://forrest.apache.org/ > > Karl > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Fuad Efendi <f...@efendi.ca> wrote: >> Hi Karl, >> >> Would be nice to see some history background page in WIKI for >> instance, I am guessing the project started before 2002, am I right? >> MySQL JDBC driver is pre-2002. and such techique as sending "COMMIT;" >> statement to server, instead of connection.commit(); >> >> Also, I believe "Apache Forrest" (Cocoon) moved to "Droids", but >> Droids can benefit a lot from ManifoldCF. >> >> I am considering ManifoldCF for retrieving (ping) RSS and indexing >> with SOLR. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Fuad > >
