[fedora-java] a java beagle version?

[Andrew Haley]

Brion Vibber writes:
 > Justin Conover wrote:
 > > Anyone thought about converting beagle(mono) to java, is it possible
 > > with some changes to the code?  I saw something months back about the
 > > diffs between java/mono and how it is possible to write apps for both
 > > without much pain, I'm not a developer and don't really know enough
 > > about java atm to say yes/no ;-)
 > >
 > > Just thought if it is possible, that would be a good project since
 > > fedora/rh doesn't want to go down the mono route for what i think are
 > > good reasons.
 > >
 > > For example, didn't Wikipedia mv from GCJ and Lucene to Mono and
 > > Dotlucene?  I don't know if there is any similarity between DotLucene
 > > and Beagle, but if Lucene does some kind of indexing/searching would it
 > > be possible to write some kind of Lucene interface to index dir on a
 > > desktop?
 > 
 > DotLucene is a C# port of Java Lucene; the API is the same (modulo the
 > silly .NET case conventions). Lucene itself is an indexing and retrieval
 > engine, basically a database targetted at text searching.
 > 
 > Wikipedia's search engine is a relatively small networked daemon with a
 > bit of wrapper code, so it was easy to move from Java to C# and would be
 > easy to move back. (My biggest problem with GCJ, and the reason I
 > switched that app to C#/Mono, has been memory leaks. Possibly this is
 > from heap fragmentation, I hope to find the time to investigate it
 > someday...)

So do I.  I would very much like to get to the bottom of this.

Andrew.