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When Lucene first hit the scene five years ago, it was nothing short of amazing. By using this open-source, highly scalable, super-fast search engine, developers could integrate search into applications quickly and efficiently. A lot has changed since then-search has grown from a "nice-to-have" feature into an indispensable part of most enterprise applications. Lucene now powers search in diverse companies including Akamai, Netflix, LinkedIn, Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New Scientist Magazine, and many others.
Some things remain the same, though. Lucene still delivers high-performance search features in a disarmingly easy-to-use API. Due to its vibrant and diverse open-source community of developers and users, Lucene is relentlessly improving, with evolutions to APIs, significant new features such as payloads, and a huge increase (as much as 8x) in indexing speed with Lucene 2.3.
And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice on best practices, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide to developing with Lucene.
About the Author
Erik Hatcher
, one of the original Lucene in Action authors, is a committer on the
Ant, Lucene, and Tapestry open-source projects, and coauthor of Manning’s
award-winning Java Development with Ant.
Otis Gospodnetic is a coauthor of the first edition of Lucene in Action. He has
been involved with Lucene since 2000 and is also an active member of Apache
Solr, Nutch, and Mahout development teams, as well as Lucene Project
Management Committee. Otis is a founder of Sematext, a software development
and consulting company focused on Lucene, Solr, Nutch, and Hadoop.
Michael McCandless has been building search engines for over a decade. In 1999
he founded iPhrase, a startup providing enterprise search software written in
Python and C. When IBM acquired iPhrase in 2005, he became interested to
Lucene and started contributing patches, becoming a committer in 2006 and a
PMC member
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent book if you are using or planning to use Lucene.
Although Lucene is very easy to use there are lots of techniques that can be used to get the most out of it. This book explains what, how and why without going too deep into the inner workings of Lucene.
The use of JUnit for worked examples is refreshing and works well. The layout is good and the example code is easy to read with examples kept short (always on a single page) with notes that describe API parameters and what is going on without the reader having to dive into the main text.
My only niggle. There is no detailed technical information about how Lucene does what it does nor is there any background to the theory or about keyword/full text searching but then as this is an "In Action" book an isn't what the book is about then I suppose I shouldn't really complain.
In summary - if you are using Lucene then I'd be surprised if you didn't benefit from reading this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A superb and comprehensive guide to lucene, full of tips and tricks to help you get the best from it. At first glance Lucene appears to be absurdly simple to use, but if you want to really harness it's power you need this book!
Well planned and layed out (and bigger than I expected), the book progresses smoothely through the lucene concepts and API's, and lends the reader an undertanding of the topic which could otherwise only be achieved through long experience.
The use of JUnit tests as code examples works particularly well - much better than contrived toy examples, and the case-studies in the second part of the book provide a good real-world grounding.
As a professional Java developer working with full-text search in RDBMS's for several years, I didn't think i'd get much from this book. Suffice to say I was wrong. The author's enthusiasm for their subject is obvious and contagious - I can't wait to write my first lucene based application!
Format:Paperback
If you are planning to use Lucene or want to tweak you existing lucene application this book is a must have.
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If you ever need to write an indexing/search tool, Lucene is for you. It just makes all the hard stuff so easy, and it's fast too and handles very large data sets. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Haughtonomous
A very useful and in-depth book
Lucene is a very in-depth and interesting technology that is used by a lot of large companies (Twitter, CNET etc). Read more
Published 10 months ago by M Warren
Is this a book on Lucene or JUnit?
Note this review was for the first edition... Amazon's deceptive this way.
The bulk of this book (Part 1:Chapters 1-6) is made up of JUnit tests to illustrate the... Read more
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