[Building Sakai] aspell spellchecker.jsp pain and suffering

[Steve Swinsburg]

I would say it is fine, so long as if its unavailable it doesn't cause any issues. And any license around it is fine also.

A previous install I worked on actually used the aspell jsp option in fck but upgraded to ck some time ago. 

Cheers
Steve

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On 01/02/2013, at 15:33, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:

> So hopefully no one else uses the spellchecker.jsp option that I
> suggested in https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-4069.
> 
> If you do, there's a big problem.  According to this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13531211/need-inputs-on-troubleshooting-runtime-getruntime-exec-on-low-memory-system
> 
> Java's Runtime.exec() before 1.7 uses fork()/exec() to spawn a
> process. Forking means duplicating the current process, which being a
> Java application is probably huge. To be able to fork() an
> application, you need to have enough virtual address space available
> 
> We've been happily running aspell like this for years.  But of course
> once things got in a virtualized env where swap space is much more
> controlled, very bad.  Think about all the memory you run tomcat with,
> yikes!
> 
> So today we rewrote this POS to use the google spell check service
> instead. Which means no outside dependencies and it even supports a
> bunch of languages ootb, which is pretty cool, we just honor the
> user's current sakai locale.  I can't find any information on google's
> policy around use of this thing.  The library we are using is Apache
> License 2.0 so that is safe for consumption in Sakai.
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/google-api-spelling-java/
> 
> This solution of course is for fckeditor right now.  I'm not sure what
> it takes to move to ckeditor, but probably not too bad.  If you are
> interested in the code let me know.
> 
> Curious to hear what people think about relying on a google service in Sakai ?
> 
> 
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> John Bush
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