Since November I have had a very few days were I have been trying to install ACS and get the modified demo app to run. I succeded, but it took me so much time, that I finally gave up and wrote the quick hack (see links above). I first want to get into ACS-development again by reading docs and code before writing new or changing existing code.
The quick hack we have now works fine for us (to build a categorization tree), I posted the link just to demo the features and start a discussion.
Currently I think there are three options:
- integrate the features we need into the existing categorization service
- separate them in a general thesaurus/fuzzy-search service (and add a few minor features to the cat. service)
- develop our own categorization service, if our features can't be integrated (for whatever reason)
Of course I would prefer the first or second option.
Maybe I should briefly explain what we need (and again, I have no clue what's already been possible in ACS). A user needs to be able to ask a query like: Give me all objects which are in distance X from location Y and match my interests.
