Manning Publications Co.

Lucene in action, 2d ed. (includes e-book access)

The second edition of this comprehensive guide to Lucene provides updated information on the latest improvements to the popular and powerful open source search engine infrastructure. Lucene was developed as a small Java library for performing text searches across numerous and varied document types that are easily integrated into web and desktop applications. This volume covers the basics of Lucene including building indexes and the internal analytic process, applied uses including extensions and integration with other applications and case studies of large and powerful applications, such as LinkedIn, that use Lucene as the basis for their search capabilities. Numerous code examples support the text and access to additional online resources, including an e-book version of the text, is provided. Hatcher and Gospodnetic are the original authors of the first edition and along with McCandless are major code contributors to the Lucene project. Distributed in the US and Canada by O'Reilly. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)