RE: Question about applications using different versions of Lucene

2007-02-12 Thread Graham Stead
I believe the Lucene file format changed in version 2.1, and your nightly .jar file is probably v2.1. See http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/fileformats.html#Segments%20File. I'm afraid I'm not an expert on the related compatibility issues. It has been my experience that pre-2.1 Lucene cannot read

RE: Lucene Web Service

2007-02-09 Thread Graham Stead
Solr provides an XML interface to everything: index adds, deletes, updates, searches, highlights, explanations, facets, commits, and optimize statements. I'm sure I've forgotten some :) It also supports JSON, as well as some other formats, if you prefer that. The Solr wiki explains how it works.

RE: My Category Search Problem

2007-01-16 Thread Graham Stead
Hello Vijay, I'm not sure whether such a change is feasible for you, but Solr has supported facets for some time now. Solr is a front-end for Lucene that provides a number of valuable features not found in Lucene itself: caching, FunctionQueries, and facets, to name a few. It has an XML interface

RE: Re: lucene and web services?

2006-11-04 Thread Graham Stead
Jim, IMHO, Solr is excellent and perhaps your best bet. There's a new-ish Lucene WS project here: http://lucene-ws.net/. I have not tried it, but it looks fine if you want to interface vanilla Lucene to, for example, Opensearch. There's an older Lucene WS project here: http://lucene-ws.sourcefor

RE: Avoiding sort by date

2006-10-16 Thread Graham Stead
Given that you want to score new documents higher (implicitly sorting them), I wonder whether Solr's FunctionQuery (specifically ReciprocalFloatFunction - http://incubator.apache.org/solr/docs/api/org/apache/solr/search/function/Re ciprocalFloatFunction.html) may also be helpful. It gives newer doc