[Xapian-devel] Re: Xapian jni

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 03:22:51AM +0100, Ralf Mattes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 23:46 +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Alex Kushkuley wrote:
> > > What do you think about Xapian web service?
> > 
> > It would probably be useful to have.  I think it would be best to
> > implement as a layer on top of Xapian (similarly to how the bindings are
> > in many ways).
> 
> Hmm, isn't a Webservice provider pretty much an application?

Well, an application is a layer on top of Xapian!

> I think Xapian should focus on what it is: a framework to _build_ such
> applications.

I think we're actually in violent agreement.  This is why I think such a
thing should be a layer on top of Xapian.

> Yes, but what all these seem to lack is the xml parser for the
> request :-)

I did describe them as `"web service"-ish'!

Alex wrote "web service" with a lowercase "w" and "s", so I took his
question in a fairly broad context.  There's no inherent reason why
everything has to be XML, that's just an implementation detail really.

> Iff xml output is all you're after that my shaggy mod-xapian might count
> as an implementation as well. It actually only creates xml output that
> then can be handled to some xslt-transforming module.

If I'd known about it, I'd have mentioned it too!  Got a URL?  I get
just a single hit for `mod-xapian' on Google, and that hit isn't very
enlightening...

Cheers,
    Olly