Otis, Let say I have a static index on CD, and my customer will be using this CD for the next 10 years. I will also probably fix bug in the application that use the CD and probably want to upgrade Lucene library at some point. How much backward compatible is Lucene with old index when Lucene release new version?
Does Lucene has any "good" history on index backward compatibility? -----Original Message----- From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:34 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Runtime full text search like in Microsoft Windows Search As somebody already said, you can have an in-memory index with RAMDirectory. You can also pre-build a Lucene index on that CD - CD is "static", you can't add/remove/change files on it, so you can build an index and burn it onto the CD at the same time when you put the Word files on it. As for getting the indexable text out of Word and other documents, look at the code for the Lucene book - http://lucenebook.com - there is a little framework there, that parses and indexes a number of common file types. Otis --- "Tardif, Sebastien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can you use Lucene like the very limited but fast search that > Microsoft Windows Search provide? > > The use case is that the users have a CD with lot of files. I provide > them a nice user interface. They have the option to generate the full > text search index but they should also be able to search without an > index generated. I know that will be slow, but Microsoft Windows > Search is still able to search 500 MB in less than 30 seconds for > simpler matching. > > How can I use Lucene for this simpler, not existing index, search? > > Or should I have to hook to operating system specific API like Win32 > on Windows? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
