What you need for this book

Lucene is built in Java so all you need is a Java-supported operating system with JDK 1.6 installed. It's preferable to use Oracle JDK; more information can be found here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. Lucene's project page can be found at http://lucene.apache.org/.

Lucene is a library, so there are no installation steps other than copying the library files. One way to include Lucene into your project is through a Maven repository. Here is a sample Maven dependency description to include in the lucene-core library.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
    <artifactId>lucene-core</artifactId>
    <version>4.10.0</version>
</dependency>

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