README

This is the source code distribution for an implementation of the Aho-Corasick
automaton in Java. For license information, please see LICENSE.

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This implemenation changes the build system from Ant to Maven

The starting version is 1.2

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This implementations improve some aspects of a software written by Danny Yoo,
available at https://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/java/index.html

The starting version is 1.1

The main changes are:
* the use of Java Generics
* the use of char[] data structure to represent text instead of byte[]; this
  makes the software compatible with UTF-8 strings
* a Benchmark class, to test the improvements of using the Aho-Corasick
  algorithm instead of regular expressions

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Here follows the original README:

The following commands require Apache Maven, which can be found here:

  http://maven.apache.org/

Building the jar
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To compile the jar, run `maven install'. The resulting jar should be created
in:

  target/ahocorasick-<version>.jar

Building the documentation
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To build the javadocs, run `maven install'. The javadocs should be created in:

  target/ahocorasick-<version>-javadoc.jar