[Xtf-user] Updated Windows batch file for running XTF indexing

[John P. A. <joh...@gm...>]

Folks,

I've got a mixed client environment (Win, Mac, Linux) for an XTF
project and thought I'd pass along an updated batch file for indexing
on Windows since the one in the instructions was not quite right. The
two principle problems were both with the 4th step

4) java -classpath [bunch_of_classpaths]

This just doesn't work since there's nothing being supplied to the
java command for compilation. From the context it looks like what was
meant was the SET CLASSPATH command instead of java -classpath. Plus,
not suprisingly that classpath has changed since the instructions were
written (PDFBox was updated).

I'm using this batch file successfully on WinXP with Java 1.5, both
ActiveState and cywin Perl, and Tomcat. So the updated instructions
would be

1) Install perl
2) Rename textIndexer to textIndexer.pl
3) Paste the code from below into indexer.bat
4) Set XTF_HOME (and JAVA_HOME if necessary)
5) Copy the sample files as directed
6) Run indexer.bat

(realize that there's a pause at the end of the indexer that requires
a keypress once the indexing is done)

<code>
REM Built for XTF 1.8-final
REM Note that you may have to change some of the JAR filenames when
the included library changes
@echo off
set OLD_CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%

REM Change CONTAINER to your servlet container
set CONTAINER=d:\java\apache-tomcat-5.5.20

echo Setting classpath using %CONTAINER%
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CONTAINER%\webapps\xtf\WEB-INF\lib\cql-java.jar;%CONTAINER%\webapps\xtf\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-1.2.9.jar;%CONTAINER%\webapps\xtf\WEB-INF\lib\PDFBox-0.7.2.jar;%CONTAINER%\webapps\xtf\WEB-INF\lib\saxonb-8.3.jar;%CONTAINER%\webapps\xtf\WEB-INF\lib\Tidy.jar;%CONTAINER%\webapps\xtf\WEB-INF\lib\xtf.jar

echo Starting textIndexer perl script
textIndexer.pl -index default
echo Indexing complete

echo Cleaning up
set CLASSPATH=%OLD_CLASSPATH%
echo Finished
</code>

-- 
John Paul Ashenfelter
CTO/Transitionpoint
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