Thanks that clears it up. Sorry to confuse things with a basic java mistake.
I think Lucene is a great library. My question for the future is whether others perceive a need for expanding the capabilities of Document or Field Boosts. I feel they are limited by both the number of allowed boost values and the method in which they are encoded (i.e. can't be overridden). In my application I wanted to have differences in boosts of 5% or so influence the results. Given the wide range of values covered by Similarity.encodeNorm() small percentage changes are typically lost. In the meantime, I can edit the open source for my particular use. Thanks for the help, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 11:50 AM To: Lucene Developers List Subject: Re: Explanations and overridden similarity You cannot override static methods - this is how Java works. You can override any of the non-static (and non-final) methods. Erik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
