adobe announced its intent today to release the full pdf (portable document format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the enterprise content management association. this is real good news in terms of open formats!

a while ago, i created a howto wiki page to run nutch in eclipse. still, it seems like many people are having questions, so here’s a bundled version of nutch-0.8 that can be dropped into eclipse. you should be able to start crawling in 2 minutes

• nutch-0.8-eclipse.tar.gz (*nix)
• nutch-0.8-eclipse.zip (windows)

requirements

• eclipse 3.2
• java 1.4 or higher, tested with 1.5
• tested with ubuntu and win xp

import project into eclipse

• From the “File” menu select “Import…” and select “General”, “Existing Project into Workspace”, Click “Next >”
• Click “Browse…” next to “Select Root directory ” and navigate to the root of this document. Click “Open”
• Click “Finish” and the Package Explorer will show the project.

configure

• change the value CHANGE
• NUTCH WILL NOT RUN OTHERWISE

run it

• crawl: menu “Run”, “Run…” then double click on “Crawl” on the left list
• search: menu “Run”, “Run…” then double click on “SearchBean”
• by default, nutch is set up to crawl http://www.cnn.com and http://www.nytimes.com/

more infos

• see README.txt
• http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/tutorial.html
• http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/RunNutchInEclipse

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