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techwriter

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Need an alternate Javahelp search engine
Posted: May 30, 2007 11:53 PM
 
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Hi Friends,
I have been facing this problem with JavaHelp for a few months now. I have created a JavaHelp system for my application and it works absolutely fine. However, I am not happy with the way the search works. As the JavaHelp search engine uses relaxation ranking and morphing, it returns strings other then what is needed.
For example: if i give a search for "Workflow Modeling" it returns "modelling" or "workflow" or "a weird string that has workflow and modelling separated by even 20 words". I want my search engine to provide exactly the word i have searched for.

Please provide me a new search engine and the way i can change the default JavaHelp search engine. It is a very urgent requirement. Would be extremely glad if any one of you could provide me a very quick solution.

Thanks.

Roger Brinkley
Re: [JAVAHELP] Need an alternate Javahelp search engine
Posted: May 31, 2007 8:31 AM   in response to: techwriter
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> Please provide me a new search engine and the way i can change the
> default JavaHelp search engine. It is a very urgent requirement.
> Would be extremely glad if any one of you could provide me a very
> quick solution.
>
> Thanks.
> [Message sent by forum member 'techwriter' (techwriter)]

The search engine is what it is. An alternative is not available. There
have been some efforts that have created alternative search interfaces
to search engines like Lucerne but I don't know if that implementation
is still available or not.

Binky

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vtec

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Re: Need an alternate Javahelp search engine
Posted: May 31, 2007 11:31 AM   in response to: techwriter
 
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Java Help is now GPLed a as it is nice and small library and the full-text engine is quite separated part there is nothing that would prevent you from writing integration with Lucene or a new search engine of your own. However that is probably not the quick and easy solution you are after.




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