Why do we use BitSet class ?

2006-01-30 Thread Vikas Khengare
Hi Friends I am very New to Lucene World !!! As this world is interesting to me So I want to go in deep level of it to realize the beauty of it. So can you help me to realize that beauty ? I have question 1] Why do use BitSet Class ? 2] Is it required in Filtering / Sorting o

Re: Why do we use BitSet class ?

2006-01-30 Thread Erik Hatcher
Please do not cross-post your questions. Your questions are best asked solely to java-user. Erik On Jan 30, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Vikas Khengare wrote: Hi Friends I am very New to Lucene World !!! As this world is interesting to me So I want to go in deep level of it to

Re: Why do we use BitSet class ?

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Hostetter
: 1] Why do use BitSet Class ? : 2] Is it required in Filtering / Sorting of results or to Index ? BitSet is a usefull class for lots of things. the only time (that i know of) where it is part of the public lucene API is in the interaction between a Filter and the IndexSearcher ... so unless you