Abstract
The Lucene Server project is an attempt to extend the Jakarta Lucene tool with server capabilities.
Lucene is a robust Java API that enables you creating indexes from text sources and perform powerful searches on these indexes. With Lucene, creating an index must be done programmatically and there are almost no possibilities of integrating index management in a distributed environment. In other words, out of the box, Lucene is suitable for integrating indexing and searching possibilities in a single application but not for providing index/search services for multiple applications.
The Lucene Server project comes with a Java API that propose the following
make it easy to create indexes in a declarative way by simply providing an XML configuration document.
make it easy to personalize the way Lucene must handle different kind of data sources.
provide services for index management and searching that can be accessed from several applications.
enable batch tasks scheduling.
