What is FileLister?

FileLister is an file system indexing tool with a web based front-end. Running platform independently in a web environment, its goal is to easily find files in large archives, using a rich set of search configuration options. Additionally, you may download single files or even create and download zip files on the fly from the results of your search.

Features are:

• Simple / Advanced Search modes
• Substring, case-sensitive/-insensitive, exact, regular expressions search
• Search within the whole index tree or within parts of it only
• Search by size, modification date, file/folder/all; sort order definition
• Choice between searching the index or directly on disk
• Search again / Search within results modes
• Column resorting, results navigation, definition of results-per-site count
• Dynamic results caching
• Creation of links for both files and directories for direct download from results view
• Generation and download of zip files created out of the results
• Indexing tool which is configurable as cron job / scheduled task
• Graphical configuration tool for the definition of the application settings, including out-of-the-tool JDBC testing part
• Dynamic reload of modified application settings
• Possibility to define a virtual root directory to be indexed: Ideal tool for searching e.g. a software archive
• Open Source (GPL licensed)

Technologies used:

• J2SDK / Swing
• Java Servlets API / JSP
• MySQL RDBMS / JDBC
• Xerces XML
• JavaScript / CSS

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