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JavaEnquirer - 28 Feb 2006 10:40 GMT

Does anybody know of any open source Java data mapping framework e.g.
give a figure/ranking as to the closeness of the following two people:

1. Jon Davis, 12/4/65, 27 Pemberton Park, Sometown, Somecounty

2. John Davies, 12/4/65, 277 Pembutton Park, Sometown, Somecounty

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Rhino - 28 Feb 2006 16:15 GMT

> Does anybody know of any open source Java data mapping framework e.g.
> give a figure/ranking as to the closeness of the following two people:
>
> 1. Jon Davis, 12/4/65, 27 Pemberton Park, Sometown, Somecounty
>
> 2. John Davies, 12/4/65, 277 Pembutton Park, Sometown, Somecounty

What do you mean by "closeness": the similarity in the spelling of their
names? the distance between their residences? Both?

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Rhino

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James McGill - 28 Feb 2006 18:22 GMT

Looks like a job for soundex.

I'm surprised Roedy hasn't posted a link to his Soundex implementation.

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JavaEnquirer - 28 Feb 2006 18:38 GMT

Ah! I'm aware of soundex, metaphone, starts with, ends with, contains,
proximity and all the other ways in which you may wish to perform
string comparisons. What I'm looking for is a full on, configurable
engine or framework that I can paramaterize to allow me to perform
fast, scalable mappings against a variety of potentially dirty
datasources.

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Roedy Green - 28 Feb 2006 19:07 GMT

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:22:32 -0700, James McGill
<jmcgill@cs.arizona.edu> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>Looks like a job for soundex.
>
>I'm surprised Roedy hasn't posted a link to his Soundex implementation.

I have not written one. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/soundex.html