[Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?

David Horwitz david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
Wed Aug 18 12:36:46 PDT 2010


  yes at this point 2.6.x == post_2.6 (the later left in place not the 
break others externals)

D

On 08/18/2010 09:28 PM, Mike Osterman wrote:
> Wonderful! Thanks for the info.
>
> Is post-2.6 search already in the 2.6.3 branch 
> <https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai-2.6.3/>? 
> This would make a compelling case (at least for us) to switch from a 
> revision freeze against 2.6.x and just use the 2.6.3 branch instead.
>
> -Mike
>
> David Horwitz wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> In working on the up coming 2.6.3 release we discovered this problem 
>> - the 2.6.2 master pom declares a commons-lang version of 2.4 but the 
>> kernel bound to it is actually deploying 2.2 (if memory serves) the 
>> quick fix is to delete the 2.2 version of commons lang in shared/lib 
>> and copy 2.4 or later there. This is fixed in the upcoming 2.6.3 
>> release (which will include the post 2.6 search)
>>
>> D
>>
>> On 08/18/2010 08:41 PM, Michael Osterman wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> Did you ever get this resolved? We're running into the same problem 
>>> here with 2.6.x and the post-2.6 search branch.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Liu, Peter <peter.liu at yale.edu 
>>> <mailto:peter.liu at yale.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi David,
>>>
>>>     I have checked out the post-2.6 branch for search tool as you
>>>     have advised.  When I start to run it in tomcat 5.5.26, it
>>>     throws the following exceptions:
>>>
>>>     2010-03-23 20:33:02,170 ERROR main
>>>     org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/sakai-search-tool]
>>>     - StandardWrapper.Throwable
>>>
>>>     java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>>>     org/apache/commons/lang/text/StrBuilder
>>>
>>>           at
>>>     org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.literal(_SimpleNode.java:277_)
>>>
>>>     We are running on Sakai 2.6.x and from this exception, it looks
>>>     like it requires a commons-lang 2.4 jar version.  However, it
>>>     still throws the same exception after I have updated the
>>>     commons-lang version to 2.4 in the pom.xml of search-impl.
>>>
>>>     I would like to ask what version of the kernel do you use for
>>>     this search tool?  Or are we missing something here?
>>>
>>>     Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>>     Peter Liu
>>>
>>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     *From:* David Horwitz [mailto:david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
>>>     <mailto:david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>]
>>>
>>>     *Sent:* Friday, March 19, 2010 9:29 AM
>>>     *To:* Liu, Peter
>>>     *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?
>>>
>>>     Hi
>>>
>>>
>>>     At UCT:
>>>
>>>     1) we have a 6 node cluster (mysql, NTFS)
>>>     2) Search indexing and journal merges are run on 1 of the active
>>>     servers
>>>     3) our index currently contains 2,701,920 documents
>>>
>>>     If your running 2.6 i would highly recoment you use the post-2.6
>>>     branch
>>>
>>>     Regards
>>>
>>>     David
>>>
>>>     On 03/19/2010 03:25 PM, Liu, Peter wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi Adam,
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     How many users do you have in normal situation?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     Thanks!
>>>
>>>     Peter
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     ________________________________
>>>
>>>     From:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org  <mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org>  [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Adam Marshall
>>>
>>>     Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:21 AM
>>>
>>>     To: Johns, Cheryl; sakai-dev
>>>
>>>     Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     no we have a cluster of 2 nodes and search just runs on each node. We use MySQL and AFS as the filestore.
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     adam
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     From: Johns, Cheryl [mailto:cheryl.johns at yale.edu]
>>>
>>>     Sent: 19 March 2010 13:15
>>>
>>>     To: Adam Marshall; sakai-dev
>>>
>>>     Subject: RE: Who is using the Search Tool?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     I assume you have a separate Search server as well?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     What kind of DB are you running against?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     From: Adam Marshall [mailto:adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk]
>>>
>>>     Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:14 AM
>>>
>>>     To: Johns, Cheryl; sakai-dev
>>>
>>>     Subject: RE: Who is using the Search Tool?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     We use it. I assume it works for both DB and file system content. Our material is stored on the file system.
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     It's pretty good and we've added the 'search all my sites' option too.
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     We'd dearly love it to search ALL public documents as well but don't really have the time to add this functionality.
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     Adam
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     From:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org  <mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org>  [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Johns, Cheryl
>>>
>>>     Sent: 19 March 2010 13:05
>>>
>>>     To: Developers Sakai-Dev
>>>
>>>     Subject: [Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     We're looking to investigate the Search tool and I've found some info on it from Ian Boston on Confluence.  Who is using it in practice?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     Does it have the capability to even search documents that are stored on the file system or just database contents?
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>     Cheryl Johns
>>>
>>>     Applications Support Manager, Instructional Solutions
>>>
>>>     http://cmi2.yale.edu
>>>
>>>     The Center for Media and Instructional Innovation
>>>
>>>     135 College Street, Suite 101
>>>
>>>     New Haven, CT  06510
>>>
>>>     Office: 1.203.436.4626
>>>
>>>       
>>>
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>>>
>>>        
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>       
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