Thanks a lot for the solution / explanation. Saved the day Erik. Summary
Observation: Using a wild carded search term with queryParser and the WhitespaceAnalyser returned no hits when when hits where expected. Reason: This was caused by the default behaviour of queryParser to lower case wildcarded search terms. Resolution: To use an instance of query parser setting the instances setLowercaseWildcardTerms to false. Example: QueryParser parser = new QueryParser("field", new StandardAnalyzer()); parser.setLowercaseWildcardTerms(false); Solution provided by Erik Hatcher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get the best from British Airways at ba.com http://www.ba.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]