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Wed, 22 Jun 2005

Regain

This weekend I looked into Regain a little. This is a desktop search tool written in java that uses Lucene.

Unfortunately at the moment it is pretty raw. It uses Swing, and one of its dependencies uses awful reflection hacks to get at Sun-specific classes -- I think to make it possible to have an icon show up in the Gnome notification area. Needless to say, at least the GUI isn't working with gcj yet.

I think the way forward is to reuse the indexer from regain but write a new GUI using java-gnome. This looks surprisingly simple.

Other interesting projects in this space are: Lius (additional Lucene indexers), LucQE (query extender), and Searchy (search results aggregator).


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