Lucene in Action

Lucene is the premiere Java search engine API. The incredible performance, ease of use, and high profile within Apache Jakarta has given it a prominent place within many commercial products as well as open-source and internal projects. This tutorial will follow this outline:

* Meet Lucene (What it is, who created it, it's history and who is using it)
* Indexing (the API and best practices on managing an indexing process)
* Searching (creating queries through the API or by parsing user-entered expressions)
* Analysis (exploring how text is processed into terms and how to customize the analysis process for various languages and domains)
* Advanced Searching (using filters, sorting, remote and multiple index searching and more)
* Parsing documents (such as Word, PDF, XML, HTML and how to index and search them effectively)
* Tools and extensions (Luke, query highlighting, other Lucene's sandbox components and more)

Erik Hatcher is an Apache Software Foundation member, co-author of the well-reviewed Java Development with Ant (Manning) and the upcoming Lucene in Action (Manning). He has written numerous articles on Ant, JUnit, XDoclet, Struts, Velocity, etc and has been published in IBM developerWorks, JavaPro, and java.net.