Chapter 1. Meet Lucene
This chapter covers
- Learning about Lucene
- Understanding the typical search application architecture
- Using the basic indexing API
- Working with the search API
Lucene is a powerful Java search library that lets you easily add search to any application. In recent years Lucene has become exceptionally popular and is now the most widely used information retrieval library: it powers the search features behind many websites and desktop applications. Although it’s written in Java, thanks to its popularity and the determination of zealous developers you now have at your disposal a number of ports or integrations to other programming languages (C/C++, C#, Ruby, Perl, Python, and PHP, among others).
One of the key factors behind ...
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