Part 3. Case studies
A picture is worth a thousand words. Examples of Lucene truly “in action” are invaluable. Readers of the first edition of this book loved the case studies chapter, so we’ve solicited a new set of case studies from the Lucene community for this new edition of the book. Lucene is the driving force behind many applications. There are countless proprietary or top-secret uses of Lucene that we may never know about, but there are also numerous applications that we can see in action online. Lucene’s wiki has a section titled PoweredBy, at http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/PoweredBy, which lists many sites and products that use Lucene.
Lucene’s API is straightforward, but the real magic happens when it’s used cleverly. The case ...
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