Re: Help with installing Lucene

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Re: Help with installing Lucene

Hello, I came across some new information regarding the original architecture. We have a file on a website that basically contains all the links of all the articles that are searchable. This file is meant to be a crawler starting point. The articles already have metadata that can be used for inde

Re: Help with installing Lucene

On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:42 PM, ahammad wrote: Greg Shackles wrote: Depending on what you need, there might be something already built that can do what you want. I can't look up links right now but you might want to look into Solr and see if that works for what you want. Otherwise, I

Re: Help with installing Lucene

> I'm not sure if it's a better idea to use something like Solr or start from > scratch and customize the application as I move forward. What do you think LuSql might be appropriate for your needs: "LuSql is a high-performance, simple tool for indexing data held in a DBMS into a Lucene index. It c

Re: Help with installing Lucene

Greg Shackles wrote: > > > Depending on what you need, there might be something already built that > can > do what you want. I can't look up links right now but you might want to > look into Solr and see if that works for what you want. Otherwise, I > think > there are code samples and whatn

Re: Help with installing Lucene

See the other's comments, but do be aware that there are many valuable additions to Lucene in the contrib area, but to use them you need to include the particular jar from contrib that you want in your CLASSPATH. That is, the contrib contributions do NOT reside in the lucene jar, they are separate

Re: Help with installing Lucene

Hi there, On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:39 PM, ahammad wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a side project coming up which requires writing a search engine. I > came across Lucene but I'm having some problems figuring out how to install > it. I'm trying to get it to work on a Windows box. > > On the Lucene we

Re: Help with installing Lucene

You don't really "install" it as it is not its own standalone application. You write the software that interfaces with the Lucene API. The src zip you mentioned has all the Lucene source, so you can use that if you want to compile the library yourself. If you want to use the precompiled binary of