Xaira Page

1. Current Status

Between August 2004 and August 2005, the Andrew W Mellon foundation funded a major development cycle for Xaira, as a consequence of which the software is now available as a set of platform-independent open source tools which can be used as the back end in the development of sophisticated web-based text searching applications. See further the Project Proposal and the Mellon Project Plan.

As of release 1.15, all versions of the full Xaira toolkit are distributed from the Xaira SourceForge site. This includes source code for the Xaira indexer, the Xaira daemon, and the Xaira SOAP server, as well as the clients mentioned above. An installer for Microsoft Windows is also available.

Development of the software actively continues: the current release is version 1.23. If you want to unleash the full power of your XML markup, and want to apply corpus-based methods to large collections of XML text, please download the current stable release.

Candidate builds of the next release are made available occasionally, for the convenience of those who don't want to mess with the CVS source tree. You can download current candidate builds for version 1.24 here.

We maintain an email list for early adopters, which is used to share bug fixes and enhancement requests as they come up; amd also to facilitate discussion amongst the user community. If you would like to join the list, click here and we'll sign you up...

Here is a short list of commonly encountered problems

A separate bug tracking mailing list is maintained for developers on the Source Forge site.

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