Forum OpenACS Development: Lucene for Search

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Posted by Aaron (WRONG ACCOUNT) Swartz on
I've been meaning to check this out, but I haven't gotten around
to it, so I thought I'd pass it off on you guys. 😉

I've heard good things about Lucene, and it looks like it'd be
relatively easy to integrate into the ACS. It's a very high-
performance and high-quality search engine from the man who
wrote the search systems for Xerox PARC, Apple's Advanced
Research Group and Excite.  It's now open source (written in
Java) and is available at:

http://lucene.sourceforge.net/

What do you all think?

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Posted by hafeez bana on
I have used MG and it's is *fast*, open source and indexes images (although I have not tried this out). And the C code is written cleanly for it to be converted into a AOLServer module. The only issue I have had is that I have not been able to find how to get it to recognize wild-card queries (I was told by someone who was at MDS that it supports it). Plus it supports get scripts as a method of inputting data, quite similar to the INSO filter mechanism in intermedia.

See The RMIT MDS MG homepage

Cheers, Hafeez