| Jim Michael 2005-09-09, 2:45 am |
| Gabriel Lincourt wrote:
> Even though I am a Java developer, I can't argue with the fact that
> it tends to produce very slow applications (at least on start up),
> and can eat a heck of a lot of memory if your not carefull. I will
> definitely have to have a play with the PDF classes some time though
> (I've been meaning to...)
Well, Java is great when used appropriately, for the right things. As a
server-side execution environment for web applications driving dynamic
web pages, it is terrific. Even Quickfinder itself uses Java servlets as
a front end for the engine and adminstration apps.
But for the actual *indexing*, it is much more appproriate to use
lower-level code that can run natively on the underlying OS, thus
Quickfinder uses NLM on NetWare and linux executibles on Linux to do
such speed-needy tasks.
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Jim
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