X-Git-Url: http://lists.indexdata.com/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=doc%2Fbook.xml;h=d7e73839b2902509c7034f6fe5b12e4c30baea83;hb=7ce51785237011a34d8147221cc10e3bf73497f9;hp=32afa99ff49729507b54de183b2ac29d2062a4fc;hpb=2fe0c3309018e8c4b751b2dbb7cef04a69104650;p=metaproxy-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/doc/book.xml b/doc/book.xml index 32afa99..d7e7383 100644 --- a/doc/book.xml +++ b/doc/book.xml @@ -18,19 +18,22 @@ --> ]> - + Metaproxy - User's Guide and Reference - - AdamDickmeiss - - - MarcCromme - - - MikeTaylor - + + + AdamDickmeiss + + + MarcCromme + + + MikeTaylor + + + &version; 2005-2007 Index Data ApS @@ -43,12 +46,15 @@ Metaproxy is a universal router, proxy and encapsulated metasearcher for information retrieval protocols. It accepts, processes, interprets and redirects requests from IR clients using - standard protocols such as + standard protocols such as the binary ANSI/NISO Z39.50 - (and in the future SRU - and SRW), as + and the information search and retireval + web services SRU + and SRW, as well as functioning as a limited HTTP server. + + Metaproxy is configured by an XML file which specifies how the software should function in terms of routes that the request packets can take through the proxy, each step on a @@ -843,18 +849,13 @@ Figure out what additional information we need in: <literal>session_shared</literal> (mp::filter::SessionShared) - When this is finished, it will implement global sharing of + This filter implements global sharing of result sets (i.e. between threads and therefore between clients), yielding performance improvements especially when incoming requests are from a stateless environment such as a web-server, in which the client process representing a session - might be any one of many. However: + might be any one of many. - - - This filter is not yet completed. - -