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Monday, November 01, 2004

Jarhoo is a good step in a right direction

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If you often wonder which jar a particular class comes from, Jarhoo has indexed a number of common distributions of java applications and libraries and allows to do a quick lookup by a name substring or a jar file substring.

Among other applications, it includes BEA Weblogic, so it is sometimes useful for me in troubleshooting classpath issues.

There are some growing pains still:
  • It does not indicate which Service Pack of the product is uses. One assumes the latest
  • It does not allow to add or remove product from a search list. It would have been useful to speed up the search by adding - for example - +product:WLS81
  • There seem to be some sort of double escape of < sign in Jar File Locations entries
An interesting thing is that just from looking at the interface, I can tell it is running Lucene under the hood. The '2 seconds' response time especially is a telling sign.

I wish the project well and I hope that, based on its success, many more mini apps will appear. It is certainly the right direction.

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2 Comments:

At February 27, 2006 6:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jarhoo now costs a fortune - Google will have to suffice.

 
At February 28, 2006 10:15 PM, Blogger BlogicBlogger said...

That's bizarre. I thought their functionality was barely useful even for a free application. Having it as a paid service makes not sense. They must be just trying to recoup the hosting/bandwidth fee, as the fee is not as such very high, just very annoying.

I guess they jumped the shark. Hopefully, somebody else will come up in their place with better functionality that is more worth the price.

 

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