X-Git-Url: http://wamblee.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=crawler%2Fkiss%2Fdocs%2Fcontent%2Fxdocs%2Findex.xml;h=54dd1d237ea512da4dd785d65cceed0009ccdbd7;hb=54903ea538a09fdb1e2ee6dc37e89bb85aebfec4;hp=b33a2f05546a1a0693b064e177e122203652b869;hpb=a85387b4c178520eda0eab2bb25ef743a78d41d8;p=utils

diff --git a/crawler/kiss/docs/content/xdocs/index.xml b/crawler/kiss/docs/content/xdocs/index.xml
index b33a2f05..54dd1d23 100644
--- a/crawler/kiss/docs/content/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/crawler/kiss/docs/content/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
         new recording is scheduled through the web site, the KiSS recorder finds out about this new
         recording by polling a server on the internet. This is a really cool feature since it
         basically allows programming the recorder when away from home. </p>
-      <p> After using this feature for some time now, I started noticing regular patterns. Often you
+      <p> After using this feature for some time, I started noticing regular patterns. Often you
         are looking for the same programs and for certain types of programs. So, wouldn't it be nice
         to have a program do this work for you and automatically record programs and notify you of
         possibly interesting ones? </p>
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@
         interesting ones. </p>
       <p> In its current version, the crawler can be used in two ways: </p>
       <ul>
-        <li><strong>standalone program</strong>: A standalone program run as a scheduled task.</li>
+        <li><strong>standalone program</strong>: 
+        A standalone program run from the command-line or as a scheduled task.</li>
         <li><strong>web application</strong>: A web application running on a java application
           server. With this type of use, the crawler also features an automatic retry mechanism in
           case of failures, as well as a simple web interface. </li>
@@ -124,8 +125,10 @@
       <p> The latest source can be obtained from subversion with the URL
           <code>https://wamblee.org/svn/public/utils</code>. The subversion repository allows
         read-only access to anyone. </p>
-      <p> The application was developed and tested on SuSE linux 9.1 with JBoss 4.0.2 application
-        server (only required for the web application). It requires at least a Java Virtual Machine
+      <p> The application was developed and tested on SuSE linux 10.1 with 
+        JBoss 4.0.4 application
+        server. An application server or servlet container is only required for the 
+        web application. The crawler requires at least a Java Virtual Machine
         1.5 or greater to run. </p>
     </section>
 
@@ -195,7 +198,7 @@
         <table>
           <tr>
             <th>Pattern</th>
-            <th>Example of matching field values</th>
+            <th>Examples of matching field values</th>
           </tr>
           <tr>
             <td>the.*x.*files</td>
@@ -250,16 +253,32 @@
             <code>http://localhost:8080/wamblee-crawler-kissweb</code>). The screen should show an
           overview of the last time it ran (if it ran before) as well as a button to run the crawler
           immediately. Also, the result of the last run can be viewed. The crawler will run
-          automatically starting at around 19:00 (this is not exactly 19:00), 
+          automatically starting after 19:00, 
           and will retry at 1 hour intervals in case
-          of failure to retrieve programme information. </p>
+          of failure to retrieve programme information. 
+          </p> 
+          
+          <p>
+          Since the crawler checks the status at 
+          1 hour intervals it can run for the first time anytime between 19:00 and 20:00. This is done
+          on purpose since it means that crawlers run by different people will not all start running 
+          simultaneously and is thus more friendly to the KiSS servers.  </p>
       </section>
 
       <section>
         <title>Source distribution</title>
-        <p> With the source code, build everything with <code>ant dist-lite</code>, then locate the
-          binary distribution in <code>lib/wamblee/crawler/kiss/kiss-crawler-bin.zip</code>. Then
-          proceed as for the binary distribution. </p>
+        <p> With the source code, build everything with maven2 as follows:</p>
+        <source>
+           mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install
+           cd crawler
+           mvn package assembly:assembly
+        </source> 
+        <p>
+          After this, locate the
+          binary distribution in the <code>target</code> subdirectory of the <code>crawler</code>
+          directory. Then
+          proceed as for the binary distribution.</p>
+         
       </section>
 
       <section>