Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

August 17, 2012

Lucene.Net becomes top-level project at Apache

Filed under: .Net,C#,Lucene — Patrick Durusau @ 2:41 pm

Lucene.Net becomes top-level project at Apache

From the post:

Lucene.Net, the port of the Lucene search engine library to C# and .NET, has left the Apache incubator and is now a top-level project. The announcement on the project’s blog says that the Apache board voted unanimously to accept the graduation resolution. The vote confirms that Lucene.Net is healthy and that the development and governance of the project follows the tenets of the “Apache way”. The developers will now be moving the project’s resources from the current incubator site to the main apache.org site.

Various flavors of MS Windows account for 80% of all operating systems.

What is the target for your next topic map app? (With or without Lucene.Net.)

August 14, 2012

Mono integrates Entity Framework

Filed under: .Net,ADO.Net Entity Framework,C#,ORM — Patrick Durusau @ 10:42 am

Mono integrates Entity Framework

From the post:

The fourth preview release of version 2.11 of Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft’s C# and .NET platform, is now available. Version 2.11.3 integrates Microsoft’s ADO.NET Entity Framework which was released as open source, under the Apache 2.0 licence, at the end of July. The Entity Framework is the company’s object-relational mapper (ORM) for the .NET Framework. This latest alpha version of Mono 2.11 has also been updated in order to match async support in .NET 4.5.

Just in case you are not familiar with the MS ADO.Net Entity Framework:

The ADO.NET Entity Framework enables developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational storage schema. The goal is to decrease the amount of code and maintenance required for data-oriented applications. Entity Framework applications provide the following benefits:

  • Applications can work in terms of a more application-centric conceptual model, including types with inheritance, complex members, and relationships.
  • Applications are freed from hard-coded dependencies on a particular data engine or storage schema.
  • Mappings between the conceptual model and the storage-specific schema can change without changing the application code.
  • Developers can work with a consistent application object model that can be mapped to various storage schemas, possibly implemented in different database management systems.
  • Multiple conceptual models can be mapped to a single storage schema.
  • Language-integrated query (LINQ) support provides compile-time syntax validation for queries against a conceptual model.

Does the source code at Entity Framework at CodePlex need extension to:

  • Discover when multiple conceptual models are mapped against a single storage schema?
  • Discover when parts of conceptual models vary in name only? (to avoid duplication of models)
  • Compare/contrast types with inheritance, complex members, and relationships?

If those sound like topic map type questions, they are.

There are always going to be subjects that need mappings to work with newer systems or different understandings of old ones.

Let’s stop pretending we going to reach the promised land and keep our compasses close at hand.

April 22, 2012

DensoDB Is Out

Filed under: .Net,C# — Patrick Durusau @ 7:07 pm

DensoDB Is Out

From the website:

DensoDB is a new NoSQL document database. Written for .Net environment in c# language.

It’s simple, fast and reliable. More details on github https://github.com/teamdev/DensoDB

You can use it in three different ways:

  1. InProcess: No need of service installation and communication protocol. The fastest way to use it. You have direct access to the DataBase memory and you can manipulate objects and data in a very fast way.
  2. As a Service: Installed as Windows Service, it can be used as a network document store.You can use rest service or wcf service to access it. It’s not different from the previuos way to use it but you have a networking protocol and so it’s not fast as the previous one.
  3. On a Mesh: mixing the previous two usage mode with a P2P mesh network, it can be easily syncronizable with other mesh nodes. It gives you the power of a distributed scalable fast database, in a server or server-less environment.

You can use it as a database for a stand alone application or in a mesh to share data in a social application. The P2P protocol for your application and synchronization rules will be transparent for you, and you’ll be able to develop all your application as it’s stand-alone and connected only to a local DB.

I don’t work in a .Net environment but am interested in experiences with .Net based P2P mesh networks and topic maps.

At some point I should setup a smallish Windows network with commodity boxes. Perhaps I could make all of them dual (or triple) boot so I could switch between distributed networks. If you have software or a box you would like to donate to the “cause” as it were, please be in touch.

October 23, 2011

How to create and search a Lucene.Net index…

Filed under: .Net,C#,Lucene — Patrick Durusau @ 7:21 pm

How to create and search a Lucene.Net index in 4 simple steps using C#, Step 1

From the post:

As mentioned in a previous blog, using Lucene.Net to create and search an index was quick and easy. Here I will show you in these 4 steps how to do it.

  • Create an index
  • Build the query
  • Perform the search
  • Display the results

Before we get started I wanted to mention that Lucene.Net was originally designed for Java. Because of this I think the creators used some classes in Lucene that already exist in the .Net framework. Therefore, we need to use the entire path to the classes and methods instead of using a directive to shorten it for us.

Useful for anyone exploring topic maps as a native to MS Windows application.

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