I have checked out the Phex from sourceforge.org. I don't know whether it is ok because it took half a day to checkout and stalled at 89% for a longtime when I was using subclipse (subversion) on eclipse.

Strange... usually it should only take a couple of minutes. Maybe there are some problems at sourceforge.

Gregork:
It is ok or enough to checkout the subdirectory:trunk of phex only and to build up the whole phex?

Yes, you only need trunk... the other directories contain old version or other temporary development efforts.

Hi,

I also do not have much spare time but I am working on a project in which I could use phex. If this is the case, I could try and develop a small API so that I can use the phex core from my application. Do you think such a module would be of any interest for phex?

What I need is an API through which I can

1. Start, stop a phex servent
2. Start, stop a search and receive all the search hits
3. Use search results (hits) to retrieve files: start, pause, resume, cancel retrieval, get progress information.
4. Publish files at a certain path.

If I find an easy way to build such a bridge API and it is of interest for phex, I could contribute it to the project. Or is there such an API already?

Many greetings
Giorgio

There are plans and first steps to build such an API. Take a look at the Servent class.
If you build one, we would be very interested to integrate it. I can also give you access to commit your changes directly into Subversion, if you like to.

Gregor

I have managed to create a small class in my project that starts phex.
Well, I just copied and pasted phex.Main and compiled it against phex.jar.

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Regarding a complete API, I can create an interface and propose it to you.

Then of course it would be helpful to have some hints from you as to how various functions should be implemented.