Wicket WebApp now part of Nutch 2.x Codebase

After successful completion of the first Nutch Google Summer of Code project we are pleased to announce that Nutch 2.X branch now comes packaged with a self contained Apache Wicket-based Web Application.

This not only greatly lowers the barrier for direct interaction with the Nutch 2.X REST API but also provides a stepping stone from which we intend to backport this work to the Nutch 1.X (trunk) series.

Some of the Web Application features include:

• Functionality to dynamically load seed URLs in order to bootstrap Nutch crawls
• Browsable and dynamic editing of Configuration overrides
• Complete REST API documentation and UML model describing REST API calls, Administration and Job and Configuration Management.

The new Web Application feature will be present within the upcoming Nutch 2.3 Release.