Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-06 Thread Marco Tedone
Thank you. I think I'll go for Lucene. Marco - Original Message - From: John Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality AFAIK, Lucene indexes files. How then, do you

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-05 Thread John Turner
, 2003 12:32 AM :: To: Tomcat Users List :: Subject: [OT] Realizing a search functionality :: :: Hi, I must admit that I don't know anything about how to realize a search :: functionality. The only thing that I know is that most sites have a search :: functionality which, when searching for something

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-05 Thread Ulrich Mayring
John Turner wrote: AFAIK, Lucene indexes files. How then, do you index a dynamic site? The only files that exist on a dynamic site are source code files. Servlets would never be indexed...how then do you index the content returned from the servlet? Can Lucene do this? Lucene is not a search

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-05 Thread Tim Funk
Lucene indexes documents. A document is composed of fields and does not need (and it actuually is not) to be a physical file. In the simplistic example of a site consisting of a single dynamic web page backed by a database. You would create documents based on the database data where the db

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-05 Thread John Turner
Thanks for the clarification. John Tim Funk wrote: Lucene indexes documents. A document is composed of fields and does not need (and it actuually is not) to be a physical file. In the simplistic example of a site consisting of a single dynamic web page backed by a database. You would create

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-05 Thread John Turner
Ulrich Mayring wrote: Lucene is not a search engine, but an API for writing a search engine, so it can do everything that you can write in Java. By itself it does nothing, like the JDK. Thanks for the clarification. I can only recommend Lucene, it is vastly superior to any pre-packaged search

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-05 Thread Ulrich Mayring
John Turner wrote: Ulrich Mayring wrote: I can only recommend Lucene, it is vastly superior to any pre-packaged search engine, because you do not depend on specific features or behavior, but can customize everything to your needs. Assuming you have time, money, skills, etc. to do so, which is

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-05 Thread John Turner
Ulrich Mayring wrote: John Turner wrote: Ulrich Mayring wrote: I can only recommend Lucene, it is vastly superior to any pre-packaged search engine, because you do not depend on specific features or behavior, but can customize everything to your needs. Assuming you have time, money, skills,

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-05 Thread Louise Pryor
On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 1:20:00 PM, John Turner wrote: snip JT The other tool I've used in the past to JT great success is Atomz (http://www.atomz.com). The trial is JT never-ending, so an index of up to 500 pages is free. Pages also = JT URL. The nice thing about Atomz is that it

[OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-04 Thread Marco Tedone
Hi, I must admit that I don't know anything about how to realize a search functionality. The only thing that I know is that most sites have a search functionality which, when searching for something, return a list of links more or less involved in the search string. The only things I know are:

Re: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-04 Thread Marco Tedone
SorryI found Jakarta LuceneI'll work on it :) Marco - Original Message - From: Marco Tedone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:32 PM Subject: [OT] Realizing a search functionality Hi, I must admit that I don't know

RE: [OT] Realizing a search functionality

2003-09-04 Thread Schalk
] web: www.volume4.co.za :: -Original Message- :: From: Marco Tedone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:32 AM :: To: Tomcat Users List :: Subject: [OT] Realizing a search functionality :: :: Hi, I must admit that I don't know anything about how to realize