HIGHLIGHT New edition of top-selling book on the new version of Lucene-the core open-source technology behind most full-text search and "Intelligent Web" applications. DESCRIPTION When Lucene first hit the scene five years ago, it was nothing short of amazing. By using this open-source, highly scalable, super-fast search engine, developers could integrate search into applications quickly and efficiently. A lot has changed since then-search has grown from a "nice-to-have" feature into an indispensable part of most enterprise applications. Lucene now powers search in diverse companies including Akamai, Netflix, LinkedIn, Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New Scientist Magazine, and many others. Some things remain the same, though. Lucene still delivers high-performance search features in a disarmingly easy-to-use API. Due to its vibrant and diverse open-source community of developers and users, Lucene is relentlessly improving, with evolutions to APIs, significant new features such as payloads, and a huge increase (as much as 8x) in indexing speed with Lucene 2.3. And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice on best practices, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide to developing with Lucene. KEY POINTS * Completely revised and updated to current Lucene 2.3 APIs. * Practical coverage, like how to index MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. * Full introduction to Intelligent Web topics like smart searching, sorting, and filtering.

About the Author
Erik Hatcher , one of the original Lucene in Action authors, is a committer on the Ant, Lucene, and Tapestry open-source projects, and coauthor of Manning's award-winning Java Development with Ant. Otis Gospodnetic is a coauthor of the first edition of Lucene in Action. He has been involved with Lucene since 2000 and is also an active member of Apache Solr, Nutch, and Mahout development teams, as well as Lucene Project Management Committee. Otis is a founder of Sematext, a software development and consulting company focused on Lucene, Solr, Nutch, and Hadoop. Michael McCandless has been building search engines for over a decade. In 1999 he founded iPhrase, a startup providing enterprise search software written in Python and C. When IBM acquired iPhrase in 2005, he became interested to Lucene and started contributing patches, becoming a committer in 2006 and a PMC member


Book Information
ISBN 9781933988177
Author Erik Hatcher
Format Paperback
Page Count 475
Imprint Manning Publications
Publisher Manning Publications
Weight(grams) 898g
Dimensions(mm) 188mm * 234mm * 27mm