Lucene in Action e-book now available

[Erik Hatcher]

ObAnt: I packaged the source code distribution of Lucene in Action 
(available from the site listed below) with a slick build file using 
Ant 1.6 features including a couple of <macrodef>'s.  It leverages the 
spawn feature of <java> in some places, as well as <parallel> to 
demonstrate remote and multiple index searching.  There is a lot of 
<input> usage too, prompting for parameters for examples.  JUnit was 
used extensively, run of course by <junit>.  Mike Clark contributed 
some JUnitPerf performance testing examples.

The Ant community has been very good to Steve and I's Java Development 
with Ant.  The wonderful feedback we received for JDwA directly 
contributed to my desire to tackle another book.  I learned a lot about 
Lucene while writing the Ant book - our example application there was a 
document search engine using Lucene.

The Lucene in Action e-book is now available at Manning's site:
        http://www.manning.com/hatcher2
Manning also put lots of other goodies there, the table of contents, 
"about this book", preface, the foreward from Doug Cutting himself 
(thanks Doug!!!), and a couple of sample chapters.  The complete source 
code is there as well.

Now comes the exciting part to find out what others think of the work 
Otis and I spent 14+ months of our lives on, an even more drawn out 
suffering than Steve and I had with the Ant book.

        Erik
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