I've been toying with a similar idea for a couple of months now. Very similar to
what you describe except that the app would be focused on indexing and sharing
GEDCOM (genealogy data) files in a P2P network.
My plan is to use Lucene to index the GEDCOM files with searchable fields such as
surname
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Otis Gospodnetic
21/11/2002 16:57
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Yeah, I thought of that, too. JXTA is the P2P piece that you are
asking about. A recent post on Slashdot mentioned so
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distributed index servers as well.
I'll look into JXTA though, as I hadn't come across it before.
Kiril
Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Yeah, I thought of that, too. JXTA is the P2P piece that you are
asking about. A recent post on Slashdot mentioned something that IBM
did that sounds similar. Time... :)
Otis
--- "Robert A. Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wish I had time to work on this for fun, but I was thinking about
I wish I had time to work on this for fun, but I was thinking about what
could be a fun lucene project...
One could build a peer-to-peer document search application. Each client
would index the documents on its harddrive, or documents in a particular
directory. When the user at the computer does a
