db4o has been incorporated as a persistence component into the Apache Lucene GData server project!
As some of you might already know GData is the Google Data API which aims to provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web (using either of two standard XML-based syndication formats: Atom or RSS). While Lucene GData Server is an extensible syndication format server with full text search based on Apache Lucene.
The range of operational area for this technology is huge: basically any information which can be displayed and/or organized as xml can be served on a GData server and, on top of that, the server makes all the content searchable with customized index / search schema.
Generally spoken GData provides a general interface to make information available even beyond a browser context by providing a single API that could be used to query, update, and index structured data anywhere on the web.
Could GData become a simple and open replacement for all the proprietary communications protocols currently in use by database vendors?
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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Lucene GData server sounds good in theory, but I have visited the Web site and it does not seem well supported. The "Getting Started" document directs me to build all of Lucene (it looks like) through several steps, which I do not have time to struggle with. The last official build of the software seems to be Sept. 2006. Is this right? If there is some wonderful place where an updated Lucene GData server can be downloaded and installed conveniently, please let us know! thx
I don't know about builds but the source code here has been last updated 12 days ago (older files seem to be 7 or 8 months old)
Try this ant task to create the WAR file (it's 4 weeks old).
On the other hand this other repository seems to be outdated.
For those interested the db4o specific source code is here
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