"The result of the import process was also not exactly what I wanted: I could search for an article, if I knew it's exact name; but I couldn't use parts of the name to search; it was all or nothing. To allow these "free-style" searches to work, one must create the search index - which I'm told, takes days to build. DAYS!"
This seems kind of stupid to me...could he not have done an SQL query using the moral equivalent of 'select articlettext where title like '%thingiaminterestedin%' - thus meaning you don't need to know the exact title.
Sun have had this technology for 5 years...it was called StarPortal, and then Sun One Web Top as Sun's marketing people renamed it to their latest buzzword compliant version. I bet the new version will be something like 'JWS' - Java Web System.
It is essentially a Java encapsulation of Star/Open Office accessible through a browser. Pretty cool stuff, but involved some hefty Java downloads (~100MB?) to get it started up. Once started up though, it was almost identical to using a native version of Star/Open Office.
StarOffice 6.0/OpenOffice.org builds (they are 99.99% the same) are written in C++, not Java. There are some components which are written in Java, but they are not essential for a running Office.
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From TFA:
"The result of the import process was also not exactly what I wanted: I could search for an article, if I knew it's exact name; but I couldn't use parts of the name to search; it was all or nothing. To allow these "free-style" searches to work, one must create the search index - which I'm told, takes days to build. DAYS!"
This seems kind of stupid to me...could he not have done an SQL query using the moral equivalent of 'select articlettext where title like '%thingiaminterestedin%' - thus meaning you don't need to know the exact title.
Sun have had this technology for 5 years...it was called StarPortal, and then Sun One Web Top as Sun's marketing people renamed it to their latest buzzword compliant version. I bet the new version will be something like 'JWS' - Java Web System.
It is essentially a Java encapsulation of Star/Open Office accessible through a browser. Pretty cool stuff, but involved some hefty Java downloads (~100MB?) to get it started up. Once started up though, it was almost identical to using a native version of Star/Open Office.
Marty
StarOffice 6.0/OpenOffice.org builds (they are 99.99% the same) are written in C++, not Java. There are some components which are written in Java, but they are not essential for a running Office.
Martin
StarPortal was renamed to SunOne Webtop. Further details can be seen at:
http://www.sun.com/webtop
Martin