Payloads
Michael Busch recently committed some code that enables Lucene to store payloads at the term level (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-755) and I have started working on enabling these payloads to be incorporated into search and scoring. (see http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/Payload_Planning and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-834)
So, you might be asking yourself, what exactly are payloads good for? Naturally, the answer is a lot! [...]
