Hi, Jakarta Lucene is a framework that provides a scalable full-text search engine under the Apache license. It's been developed for several years now and seems almost complete and stable. The only drawback: It's not a complete solution yet, since it still lacks a versatile indexing server that is capable of crawling the web or periodically indexing a file server or database tables.
Within the last 6 months there had been a couple of contributions that made their way to the Lucene "sandbox" repository: A web crawler, an indexing framework, and an extension of Lucene that makes it transactional. In an effort to weave these contributions together with Lucene and leverage it on a new level some Lucene contributors have started a new effort to create a "Lucene server", code-named LARM. Its scope: it's an indexing framework that _takes_ documents of _various formats_ at _some time_ from _some_ source and puts them into a Lucene search index. One of the first documents written about the effort contained some ideas on the server should do configuration and service management. Fortunately it soon turned out that Avalon Phoenix seemed to already provide a lot of the functionality that was outlined, and even much more. The problem may sound familiar - nobody has any experiences with Phoenix and COP. We will now try to come to a good solution, but experience says this first attempt is likely to bomb. However, we think the benefits of a common framework are worthwile to take this effort. However, if anybody is interested in the project and is experienced with Phoenix - we are seeking for something like a mentor, who can outline a plan on how the things we want to do should be designed with Phoenix. But even something less than this would also be greatly appreciated. Regards Clemens Marschner -------------------------------------- http://www.cmarschner.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:avalon-users-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:avalon-users-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
