Why not put the application on the CD as well? .. or at a minimum, the lucene JAR. That way you never have to worry about the possibility of it changing.
: Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:32:33 -0400 : From: "Tardif, Sebastien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org : To: java-user@lucene.apache.org : Subject: Static index on CD, how much forward compatible is the index : : Otis, : : Let say I have a static index on CD, and my customer will be using this : CD for the next 10 years. I will also probably fix bug in the : application that use the CD and probably want to upgrade Lucene library : at some point. How much backward compatible is Lucene with old index : when Lucene release new version? : : Does Lucene has any "good" history on index backward compatibility? : : : : -----Original Message----- : From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:34 PM : To: java-user@lucene.apache.org : Subject: Re: Runtime full text search like in Microsoft Windows Search : : As somebody already said, you can have an in-memory index with : RAMDirectory. You can also pre-build a Lucene index on that CD - CD is : "static", you can't add/remove/change files on it, so you can build an : index and burn it onto the CD at the same time when you put the Word : files on it. : : As for getting the indexable text out of Word and other documents, look : at the code for the Lucene book - http://lucenebook.com - there is a : little framework there, that parses and indexes a number of common file : types. : : Otis : : : --- "Tardif, Sebastien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > How can you use Lucene like the very limited but fast search that : > Microsoft Windows Search provide? : > : > The use case is that the users have a CD with lot of files. I provide : > them a nice user interface. They have the option to generate the full : > text search index but they should also be able to search without an : > index generated. I know that will be slow, but Microsoft Windows : > Search is still able to search 500 MB in less than 30 seconds for : > simpler matching. : > : > How can I use Lucene for this simpler, not existing index, search? : > : > Or should I have to hook to operating system specific API like Win32 : > on Windows? : > : : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
