Lucene is a gem in the open-source world. "Lucene in Action" is the authoritative guide to Lucene. It describes how to index your data, including types you definitely need to know such as MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. It introduces you to searching, sorting, filtering, and highlighting search results. Lucene powers search in surprising placesWhats Inside- How to integrate Lucene into your applications- Ready-to-use framework for rich document handling- Case studies including Nutch, TheServerSide, jGuru, etc. - Lucene ports to Perl, Python, Csharp/. Net, and C++- Sorting, filtering, term vectors, multiple, and remote index searching- The new SpanQuery family, extending query parser, hit collecting- Performance testing and tuning- Lucene add-ons (hit highlighting, synonym lookup, and others)
HIGHLIGHT
New edition of top-selling book on the new version of Lucene-the core
open-source technology behind most full-text search and "Intelligent Web"
applications.
DESCRIPTION
When Lucene first hit the scene five years ago, it was nothing short of
amazing. By using this open-source, highly scalable, super-fast search engine,
developers could integrate search into applications quickly and efficiently.
A lot has changed since then-search has grown from a "nice-to-have" feature
into an indispensable part of most enterprise applications. Lucene now powers
search in diverse companies including Akamai, Netflix, LinkedIn,
Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New Scientist
Magazine, and many others.
Some things remain the same, though. Lucene still delivers high-performance
search features in a disarmingly easy-to-use API. Due to its vibrant and diverse
open-source community of developers and users, Lucene is relentlessly improving,
with evolutions to APIs, significant new features such as payloads, and a
huge increase (as much as 8x) in indexing speed with Lucene 2.3.
And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice on best
practices, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide to
developing with Lucene.
KEY POINTS
. Completely revised and updated to current Lucene 2.3 APIs.
. Practical coverage, like how to index MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML.
. Full introduction to Intelligent Web topics like smart searching, sorting,
and filtering.
