Searching in the forum

[ehenne]

As I could not find any documentation about using the search engine of the forum I did some research:

The jboss forum uses Jive (http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/forums) which in turn uses Lucene as search engine. The lucene search expression parser is documented in http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/queryparsersyntax.html. Most of it seems to work here.

Here are some of the basic features:

Literal values should be in double quotes:
"ejb-jar"
"jboss 3.0"

"*" can be used as wildcard but not at the beginning of a word:
search*
jb*ss

Logical operators are "&&" ("AND"), "||" ("OR") and "NOT" (capital letters!) and grouping is done with parentheses "(...)":
jboss && (CMP || CMR)

The prefixes "+" or "-" can be used to force the inclusion or exclusion of a word:
+jboss.xml +"ejb-jar" -deploy* is the same as
jboss.xml AND "ejb-jar" AND NOT deploy*


A side note: Sometimes it takes some time until a new post is visible, so wait till next day before you try to post it again.

[ehenne]

With some more research I found interesting undocumented formatting features for the forum.

I have always missed a possibility to show code with indentation and in fixpoint font. Here is the solution: Just enclose your code with &#91pre] and &#91/pre]. Here is an example:

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Following is some example code to show code formatting capabilities:
&#91pre]package example;

public&nbspclass&nbsp&#91b]ExampleClass&#91/b]&nbsp{

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsppublic&nbsp&#91b]someMethod&#91/b]&nbsp(String&nbsps)&nbsp{

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspif&nbsp(s&amp#91i]&nbsp>&nbsp" ")&nbsp{
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspdoSomething&nbsp("useful");
&#91/pre]And here is some more text following the code.
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The above source text will then be formatted as:

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Following is some example code to show code formatting capabilities:
[pre]package example;

public class ExampleClass {

public someMethod (String s) {

if (s&#91i] > " ") {
doSomething ("useful");
[/pre]And here is some more text following the code.
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As you see we can still use the other formatting codes like &#91b]&#91/b] etc. But I noticed that we need at least one space in empty lines because elsewhere they would disappear inside a pre-block.

You might wonder how I managed to show you the source text above with disabled formatting. The trick is to use another undocumented feature: We can use the HTML replacement characters starting with "&amp" in our messages. Especially useful is &ampnbsp for non breaking spaces to keep the indentation. In the above examples I used &amp#91 for "[" and &ampamp for "&" to prevent any formatting. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charsets.asp for a complete list of replacement codes.

[ehenne]

I have noticed that the above message does not look good on Netscape as it requires a closing ";" after the "&" replacement codes. So I repost my above post with semicolons to make it look good also with Netscape and hopefully other browser. I am really missing a possibility to edit old messages :-)


With some more research I found interesting undocumented formatting features for the forum.

I have always missed a possibility to show code with indentation and in fixpoint font. Here is the solution: Just enclose your code with [pre] and [/pre]. Here is an example:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Following is some example code to show code formatting capabilities:
[pre]package example;

public class [b]ExampleClass[/b] {

    public [b]someMethod[/b] (String s) {

        if (s[i] > " ") {
            doSomething ("useful");
[/pre]And here is some more text following the code.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The above source text will then be formatted as:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Following is some example code to show code formatting capabilities:
[pre]package example;

public class ExampleClass {

public someMethod (String s) {

if (s[i] > " ") {
doSomething ("useful");
[/pre]And here is some more text following the code.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As you see we can still use the other formatting codes like [b][/b] etc. But I noticed that we need at least one space in empty lines because elsewhere they would disappear inside a pre-block.

You might wonder how I managed to show you the source text above with disabled formatting. The trick is to use another undocumented feature: We can use the HTML replacement characters starting with "&" in our messages. Especially useful is   for non breaking spaces to keep the indentation. In the above examples I used [ for "[" and & for "&" to prevent any formatting. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charsets.asp for a complete list of replacement codes.