At Java Enterprise Solutions Symposium in Paris, Noviforum shows off product's features April 28, 1999 — A small Slovenian company is offering ISPs and other companies looking for a Java-based information retrieval product a new option in the form of the Trident Search Site Server for Java.At the Java Enterprise Solutions Symposium (JESS ’99) developers’ conference in Paris, Noviforum is showing off the product’s capabilities with a search engine it developed for finding Internet documents relating to Kosovo. The Kosovo Crisis Internet Search engine has an index containing some 70,000 Web documents, and Noviforum is offering it for free to interested ISPs or other companies that want to host the search engine, once the JESS show closes on Thursday.Noviforum’s server-based Trident product, upon which the Kosovo search engine is based, is being shown for the first time in an international forum at this week’s Java conference. Currently shipping in Version 1.05, Trident offers language plugins to support English and Slovenian queries. Noviforum also offers service contracts so that companies that need to customize a search engine to focus on a given topic, but don’t want to create their own engine, can outsource the work to Noviforum.A typical Trident customer might be a national tourist board that wants to set up a site on the Web where tourists can search for hotel and leisure information relating to travel in that country, explained product development manager Aleksander Stravs.Although Stravs acknowledged that his company is tiny compared to search-engine giants such as Inktomi, he believes that Noviforum’s Trident is the only text and retrieval program available today that is written purely in Java. Trident pricing will depend on the number of documents a company wants to index, Stravs said. Software Development