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<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">I am a 2^nd year student of Computer Science and
Engineering Department in University of Moratuwa. I am interested in ‘Java
Binding Improvements’ project. I went through given resources on the Xapian web
page (<a href="http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:JavaBindingsImprovements">http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:JavaBindingsImprovements</a>).</span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt">I cloned Xapian
repository, build the project successfully as described in following article.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">[1] <a href="http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC%20Guide#Checkingoutandbuildingthecode">http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC%20Guide#Checkingoutandbuildingthecode</a></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">I focused
on how to get started with the project. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt">[2]</span> <span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/annotated.html">http://xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/annotated.html</a></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">[3] <a href="http://xapian.org/docs/bindings/java/README">http://xapian.org/docs/bindings/java/README</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">According
to the article [3] the source codes related to <a href="https://github.com/xapian/xapian/tree/master/xapian-core">https://github.com/xapian/xapian/tree/master/xapian-core</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Now I am
studying codes in following packages.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">[4]</span>
<span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><a href="https://github.com/xapian/xapian/tree/master/xapian-core/queryparser">https://github.com/xapian/xapian/tree/master/xapian-core/queryparser</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">[5]</span>
<span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><a href="https://github.com/xapian/xapian/tree/master/xapian-core/weight">https://github.com/xapian/xapian/tree/master/xapian-core/weight</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt">After that I hope to wrap Query
Parser API. In addition to resources mentioned above, I hope to refer following
article to create it.</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt">[6] <a href="http://llama.mshri.on.ca/~fgibbons/doc/SWIG1.3.10.dont.use/Manual/Java.html">http://llama.mshri.on.ca/~fgibbons/doc/SWIG1.3.10.dont.use/Manual/Java.html</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt">Please correct me if I am in a wrong
track. Please give me suggestions if there are better ways to do that.</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Regards</span></p>

<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Shiluka Raveen Dharmasena</span></p>

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