Jarhoo is a good step in a right direction
If you often wonder which jar a particular class comes from, Jarhoo has indexed a number of common distributions of java applications and libraries and allows to do a quick lookup by a name substring or a jar file substring.
Among other applications, it includes BEA Weblogic, so it is sometimes useful for me in troubleshooting classpath issues.
There are some growing pains still:
- It does not indicate which Service Pack of the product is uses. One assumes the latest
- It does not allow to add or remove product from a search list. It would have been useful to speed up the search by adding - for example - +product:WLS81
- There seem to be some sort of double escape of < sign in Jar File Locations entries
An interesting thing is that just from looking at the interface, I can tell it is running Lucene under the hood. The ‘2 seconds’ response time especially is a telling sign.
I wish the project well and I hope that, based on its success, many more mini apps will appear. It is certainly the right direction.
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