Lucene and Java 1.5
There has been a lot of talk on the Lucene developer list about moving to Java 1.5. I think this is a good thing and I hope it happens fairly soon. We have been running Lucene on 1.5 at the Center for Natural Language Processing at Syracuse University for a while and I can say, anecdotally at least, that it performs a lot better under 1.5 then it does on 1.4. Besides the performance, I think the use of Generics and some of the concurrency classes could really help. On the downside, some one needs to make the introductions to the code and I would hate to see all of the current patches in JIRA go dormant b/c they haven’t been reworked for 1.5. I think a good deal of users are already using 1.5. Would be nice if there was a way to know for sure, but people don’t always voice their opinion on such matters.
