This has probably been asked before but I couldn't find it, so... Is it possible / advisable / practical to use Lucene as the basis of a live document search capability? By "live document" I mean a largish document such as a word processor might be able to handle which is being edited currently. Examples would be Word documents of some size that are begin written, really huge Java files, etc.
The user is sitting there typing away and of course everything is changing in real time. This seems to be orthogonal to the idea of a Lucene index which is costly to construct and costly to update. TIA