Thank you very much Erik!
I will definatly check into this. I'm currently using xfire in my
implementation. I guess to big issue was/is that the indexing is done by
one application, and the searching from several different applications.
(obviously)
I have been bitten by the lucene-virus;)
Aleksander - if you're wrapping Lucene with a web service, you'd do
well to investigate Solr - http://incubator.apache.org/solr - as it
handles all of the index management in a very elegant fashion. It
currently does not support a SOAP interface, but rather a RESTful
light-weight custom XM