RE: Full text indexing - integrating more DMS features into OGo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helge Hess [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:05 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OGo-Discuss] Full text indexing - integrating 
> more DMS features into OGo
> 
> On 20. Sep 2005, at 20:33 Uhr, David Nalley wrote:
> > I was wondering what the thoughts would be towards adding 
> indexing of 
> > files. I have noticed (and used) Knowledge Tree DMS, and 
> noticed that 
> > they have packaged separately their file indexing package 
> for indexing 
> > html, doc, xls, pdf, txt, etc. The ability to search all of 
> the files 
> > in all of the projects for a keyword would be fascinating. 
> Since the 
> > file indexer from Knowledge Tree is released under the GPL, 
> it could 
> > be easily reused. The immediate downsides that I see are that it's 
> > written in Java (thusly requiring a JRE), and it's designed to 
> > interface with mysql instead of postgres, though there is 
> work being 
> > done on a postgres option.
> 
> I think the way to go would be Lucene, in our case probably 
> the ObjC variant. Notably OGo does not store documents in the 
> database, only the metadata.
> 
> Also see:
>    http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171

Fascinating, I didn't know that Lucene had an Obj-C port, but that would
make it quite nice. 
My point about MySQL was that it would require yet another database
server to be installed, be better if all on the same database platform.
I'll have to start perusing Lucene's documentation. 

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