Does it make any sense? Every time a search result is shown, the original document could have been changed, no matter how fast the indexing speed is. If you can accept this inconsistency, you do not need to index so frequently at all. ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "software visualization"<softwarevisualizat...@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, Dec 29, 2010 06:06 AM To: "java-user"<java-user@lucene.apache.org>;
Subject: Using Lucene to search live, being-edited documents 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
