Sure, the only danger is you have to make sure that both processes store their lock files in the same directory (default they are in your home directory I believe) unless you use a different locking mechanism.
There are supposed to be problems when accessing indices over network shares, but I use that setup and haven't run into problems yet (not counting connection problems...) I have one machine continually updating the index, and two machines running the searches and it works fine... (Even when completely rebuilding the index, the searchers can see the contents 'grow' as segments are written to disk) Luc -----Original Message----- From: Pradeep Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 5 februari 2006 20:49 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: two applications accessing same index I have two applications, one which will be generating all the indexes and the second one which will be reading those indexes. I cannot keep them in the same application, because one will run all the times in batches via some sort of scheduler to generate the indexes and the application which will read the indexes is a web service, so it will run within the web server's context. Can I do this or is it not advisable to have two separate applications access the same index? Is there some other best practise to accomplish this? Thanks Pradeep --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
