Lucene is a text search engine API.
Lucene is high-performance, scalable, full-featured, open-source, and written in java.
Specifically, Lucene is the guts of a search engine - the hard stuff. You write the easy stuff, the UI and the process of selecting and parsing your data files to pump them into the search engine, yourself.
You can find the Lucene project at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/
A list of Doug Cutting's conference papers and other publications can still be found at Lucene's old web site at http://lucene.sourceforge.net/publications.html
Some of the Lucene people have started a project called LARM that uses the core Lucene engine for a complete search engine server. If you want to contribute, read the docs at http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-lucene-sandbox/projects/larm/docs/ Discussions can go to LuceneLARMPages
You can find the lucene-user mailing list archive (by the way, the eyebrowse searchable mail archive uses Lucene) at:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=30
For those who want to consult the latest features, you can find this at:
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-lucene/CHANGES.txt?view=markup
For other projects that extend, support, or in some way enhance the use of Lucene, see LuceneResources
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