I have a really simple servlet example already created that appears to work. I adopted most of the code from the .jsp example posted earlier from Douglass Cutting. However, I have two questions:
First, (this is related more to the servlet aspect) in the .jsp file there are a couple of lines of code that deal with the 'application' variable: i.e. indexPath = application.getRealPath( "/" + index ); apparently I need this code in order to create the index sercher by giving it the physical path to the index that I'm going to use. I need to reproduce the application variable inside the servlet. I'm using a (really bad!) work around currently that uses a hidden field in the query form page to store the index path (using the application variable). I have found that the application variable is related to the servletContext property of the HTTPServlet class. Does anyone have an idea of how to instantiate this inside a servlet? Any information related to struts would be of assistance as well as the perform method only gives you access to the request and response objects. Second, is there anyway to exclude directories from being indexed? For example, I need an index of everything in the /doc directory but not items in /doc/restricted directory. I'm thinking that you should be able to do this at creation time, or removing them after, but perhaps I could settle with creating the query and removing items that are located in that directory. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this? Once I get my app running correctly, I'll post the code that I used in my servlet example. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
