Zach, Just a suggestion, maybe going the web API route and self hosting (which allows for something more RESTful and with good bindings for JSON, XML, et al):
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ASPNET-Web-API-Self-Host-30abca12 http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/hosting-aspnet-web-api/self-host-a-web-api - Nick On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:47 PM, "Zachary Gramana" <zgram...@gmail.com> wrote: > All: > > I spent quite a bit of time researching the demise of Lucene.Net.Distributed > (now Contrib.Distributed), primarily looking at SVN tags and the mailing > list. I gather that it was only ever a reluctant feature, which had few > users, went unmaintained, and thus was quietly dropped during the transition > from 2.4.0 -> 2.9.1. > > I noticed that much of that code remains in src/contribs, so I attempted to > restore it back to its former state. To make a long story short, I have > reconstructed solution files, project files, tests, etc. and have migrated > them all forward to use 3.0.3 trunk. It now builds and (nominally) runs. It > does not pass the tests since the Soap formatter does not support generics. > > I did not make any modifications beyond those needed for reconstruction and > migration. I am considering migrating this to ServiceStack, or WCF, if there > is interest. However, some may be interested in playing with it as-is. I'd be > happy to submit a patch against trunk, but I'm not sure of the protocol for > that (e.g. send it to dev list, private email). The patch currently weighs in > at 344 KB zipped/~3 MB unzipped. > > Best Regards, > Zack > > >