[sdx-users] [newbie] Programmatic use of SDX...

[Remi Vankeisbelck]

Hi there,

I'm working in the French Scientifical and Technical Research Lab for 
Building and Construction.Amongst various activities, we are developing 
documentary applications for some of our clients (the content being 
mainly regulations and normative material,  maintained as a set of XML 
docs), with indexing and searching capabilities.

I'm currently investigating SDX as a "back-end" component for our 
solutions. I've had a quick look at the "XSP" side of the framework, 
which is very interesting, but does not fulfill all our requirements. 
We'd like to embed the indexing feature and search engine into virtually 
any Java application (e.g. web-started swing clients, applets, web 
apps). I'd just like to do be able to search into my XML docs using SDX 
classes, just like :

// get hold of an sdx 'app'
SDXApp myApp = ... ;
// perform a search in this app...
SDXResult[] results = myApp.search("my request here");
:-)

This "code" could be executed in a local class, in a servlet, in a 
remote object, or whatever...

So, I tried to have a look at the javadocs and source code 
(FrameworkImpl, etc), but as you may know this is very time-consuming 
task...

So, I was just wondering is there was any good tutorial (I tried google 
but it did not send me any interesting link :-/ ) to get into it (just 
like the one for the "XSP way" !). If not, I'll get back to code and try 
to understand how it works...

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Remi