How to provide searchable online docs?

[shomer]

I'm planning the online documentation for
a Linux software product that will have a
web-based GUI. We want to provide a
Search capability for the online docs.
Because we have no control over the
user's choice of browser or platform, we
want the search application to run on the
Web server (Apache). Our requirements
are:
* Java-based tool compatible with Apache
* Precompiled search index rather than
search-on-the-fly, for performance
(desirable but not required)
* Can search HTML (required) and PDF
(desirable but not required)
* Simple integration with the web server
* No java or javascript runs in the
browser; only HTML and ASP gets
served up to the end user.

Any product suggestions would be very
helpful, thanks!

-- Steve Homer shomer@cruzio.com

[ph34r]

When I was doing the NHFD thing, I used Simple Search from Matt's Script archive (www.worldwidemart.com) - written in perl, non-indexing, can't do pdf files, but it is easy and quick to setup, and free.