This slide show is a few years old, but I think it might be a good introduction for you to the differences between the projects:
http://www.slideshare.net/dnaber/apache-lucene-searching-the-web-and-everything-else-jazoon07/ Steve -----Original Message----- From: Ing. Yusniel Hidalgo Delgado [mailto:yhdelg...@uci.cu] Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:30 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Some question about Lucene Hello I'm a new Lucene user. I have the following question: is posible to build a crawler/spider with Lucene library or Lucene is only for index/search phases. I am studying three project: Nutch, Lucene and Solr but I don't see what is the main difference between them. Greetings . -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eng. Yusniel Hidalgo Delgado University of Informatics Sciences --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------