> > : The crux of the issue seems to be that lucene cannot open segments file > that > : is inside the jar (under luceneFiles/index directory) > > i'm not entirely sure why it would have problems finding the segments > file, but a larger problem is that Lucene needs random access which (last > time i checked) isn't available when accessing files in jars... > > > http://www.nabble.com/Accessing-Lucene-Index-stored-in-a-jar-file-to3009604.html >
I bumped into (though never used) http://commons.apache.org/vfs/apidocs/org/apache/commons/vfs/provider/jar/JarFileSystem.html There, FileContent has this method getRandomAccessContent(org.apache.commons.vfs.util.RandomAccessMode) so it seems worth exploring. HTH, Doron
