VLDB Fulltext Search Client

The VLDB Fulltext Search Client provides a fulltext search for VLDB papers and through the VLDB homepage. The papers and the VLDB homepage can also be accessed using the VLDB Fulltext Search Client.

NOTE: To use the VLDB Fulltext Search Client you need a working Java 1.4.x installation (you can install it from this CD-ROM as described below).

Overview

Requirements
Starting the VLDB Fulltext Search Client
Usage
Fulltext searching
License

Requirements

To execute the VLDB Fulltext Search Client you need to install two programs. They are available on the CD-ROM (see hyperlinks).

Java 1.4.0 (or higher), available on CD-ROM. You can choose between the Java Runtime Environment (JRE, for executing Java applications only) and the Java Software Development Kit (SDK, Standard Edition, only needed for Java application developers).
- Windows: JRE, SDK
- Linux: JRE, SDK (self extracting files)
A PDF viewer:
- Windows users can use Adobe's Acrobat Reader (Version 5.1, Version 6.0) or any other PDF viewer
- Linux users need to install Adobe's Acrobat Reader or xpdf

(A summary of all third-party software on this CD-ROM can be found here.)

Starting the VLDB Fulltext Search Client

The VLDB Fulltext Search Client is located on the CD-ROM at

<cd-drive>\VLDBSearch\VLDBSearch.jar (Windows), or
<mount point>/VLDBSearch/VLDBSearch.jar (Linux)

Windows

There are two ways to start the client:

Usually, windows users can start the client by double clicking the VLDBSearch.jar file.
If this does not work the file type jar is not set properly. You can adjust this using the Windows Explorer:
1. Click Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types
2. Search for the file type JAR
3. Press Advanced -> Edit
4. Set Action to open
5. Set Application used to perform action to
  "C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.0_03\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "%1"
  (Adapt the path to your Java installation and do not forget the "s)
Use the command line:
1. Open a Command Line and change to the directory that contains the VLDBSearch.jar file
2. Type javaw -jar VLDBSearch.jar

Linux

Open a shell and change to the directory that contains the VLDBSearch.jar file
Type javaw -jar VLDBSearch.jar
(If you do not have javaw installed you can use java instead.)

Usage

Enter fulltext queries into the text field (see query help page for query syntax) and press Enter or click the Search button [Screenshot]
Found PDF documents and HTML pages of the VLDB homepage are shown at the tables [Screenshot]
To view papers or HTML-pages double-click the table entries
or press right mouse button and select View paper/file
In order to view additional data of the PDF documents press right mouse button
and select Paper info [Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2]

License

This software is free and powered by
Liability Exclusion

The VLDB Publication Coordinator