hi jerry,
i'm just wondering if direct access to the index is the best
approach, swish++ does a bit of optimization in its treatment of
indexes that would have to be duplicated in aolserver.Keeping with
the db analogy might it not be better to connect to the swish socket
search daemon via an ns_search interface along with patching swish++
to use persistent socket connections.
most of the useful docs i found for swish++ were the man pages which
i found pretty exhaustive, i've also noticed that paul tends to be
quick to respond to questions on the mailing list.
i haven't used this feature but swish++ also does meta
extraction/searching, and i think you could define the abstract as
the title (stored in the index) but it would require jumping through
hoops for non html/xml docs or writing a custom filter.
cheers
