I was wondering if I was allowed to implement the Housespider search engine in my own java search program. Up to this point I've been using a very basic search engine that searches one file at a time. When I started this java search program there weren't too many files to be searched. Time has moved on and there are roughly 30.000 files to be searched now. So I was wondering under which conditions,if at all, I may use the Housespider engine in my own program? Secondly, is there any documentation about how the search engine and the indexing works? I know I could chew my may through the source, changing a bit here and there, but I'm not fond of this kind of work.
THX, Jonathan
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The program is release under GPL - read about it at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html If it's just for private use you can do anyhting you want with the code.
I'm afraid there isn't any documentation about the actual code. However, I don't think HouseSpider is useful for as many files as 30.000. You should check out Lucene located at http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/
Hans
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Thanks for the immediate answer. And thank you for the Lucene link. Lucene seems to be very, very complex and maybe it is not the program I am looking for. So I might end up using HouseSpider anyway.
Well, thanks. Jonathan
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Hi,
I was wondering if I was allowed to implement the Housespider search engine in my own java search program. Up to this point I've been using a very basic search engine that searches one file at a time. When I started this java search program there weren't too many files to be searched. Time has moved on and there are roughly 30.000 files to be searched now. So I was wondering under which conditions,if at all, I may use the Housespider engine in my own program? Secondly, is there any documentation about how the search engine and the indexing works? I know I could chew my may through the source, changing a bit here and there, but I'm not fond of this kind of work.
THX, Jonathan
The program is release under GPL - read about it at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html If it's just for private use you can do anyhting you want with the code.
I'm afraid there isn't any documentation about the actual code. However, I don't think HouseSpider is useful for as many files as 30.000. You should check out Lucene located at http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/
Hans
Thanks for the immediate answer. And thank you for the Lucene link. Lucene seems to be very, very complex and maybe it is not the program I am looking for. So I might end up using HouseSpider anyway.
Well, thanks. Jonathan