1: You can read what Bookie is <a href="purpose.html">here</a>, but here's the
2: long and short of it:
3:
4: <blockquote>
5: Bookie is an application which keeps all your bookmarks on a
6: central server so that you can access bookmarks from anywhere on the web.
7: </blockquote>
8:
9: <p>I have a server which is currently using a hacked up protocol based on
10: FTP. I have since learned why no-one uses a protocol from the 1970's if
11: they can help it: the code is going to go away and be replaced with XML-RPC,
12: which is both simpler and more intelligent. Dunno anything about SOAP, but
13: since it's not out of committee yet, I'm not going to worry about it.
14:
15: <p>Mozilla client is still very rudimentary, but it does do XML-RPC queries.
16: If you enjoy pain or would like to help, then you can pick up the code from
17: <a href="/source/browse/bookie/clients/mozilla/extensions/bookie/resources">here</a>.
18: Thanks to Aaron Andersen for the cool <a
19: href="http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xulapp/">tutorial</a>.
20:
21: <p>You do have to have the XML-RPC extensions to use the client. Go to your
22: mozilla/extensions/xml-rpc directory and <code>"nmake -f
23: makefile.win"</code> should take care of the problem.
24:
25: <p>Using the server requires
26:
27: <a href="http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/bwm/rdf/jena/">Jena</a>, <a
28: href="http://classic.helma.at/hannes/xmlrpc/">XMLRPC-Java</a>, <a
29: href="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/index.html">Log4j</a>, and <a
30: href="http://www.junit.org/">Junit</a>. At least. I've been using JBuilder
31: and haven't bothered to put together an <a
32: href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html">Ant</a> script. If someone
33: does, please mail it to me.
34:
35: <p>Suggestions and comments are welcome.
36:
37: <p>
38: Will Sargent <<a href="mailto:will_sargent@yahoo.com">will_sargent@yahoo.com</a>>
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