ApacheCon Europe 2007 Talk and Tutorial Information

ApacheCon Europe is past and we had a great turnout.  If you missed it and are interested in Lucene training, contact me at gsingers@syr.edu

I am giving a Lucene Java tutorial at ApacheCon Europe (in Amsterdam!) this year, titled “Lucene Boot Camp”. The tutorial will be an all-day, in-depth look into getting Lucene running in your application. No prior knowledge of Lucene is required, but you should be comfortable programming in Java and should bring a laptop to work on (with ANT 1.6.5 or above installed). I am also giving a talk on “Advanced Lucene” at the main conference, on May 2nd.

You can register for this talk at https://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Register/IdentityConfirmation.aspx?e=1a65c008-8b2b-445c-b351-07255b1c8168

More Info on ApacheCon is available at their website.

Feel free to email me with questions pertaining to the tutorial or talk. My email username is gsingers and the domain name is apache.org.

Below is an unofficial outline of what I expect to cover:

  1. Intro
  2. Setup Lucene
    1. Getting the source, nightly builds, compilation
    2. Getting a collection
  3. Indexing
    1. Concepts and Important classes
    2. Basics
    3. In-depth look at analysis
      1. Available analyzers
      2. tokenization
      3. filters
      4. Writing a custom analyzer
      5. Handling special cases: number, dates, etc.
    4. Performance and threading
  4. Searching
    1. Concepts, Definitions and Important Classes
    2. Using the Query Parser
      1. Syntax
      2. Things to watch out for
    3. Getting to know the Query classes, programmitic query building
    4. Filters — How and Why
    5. Sorting
    6. Advanced Searching
      1. Spans
      2. Expert APIs
      3. Multi-index
      4. Parallel
      5. Remote
    7. Performance and Threading
  5. Special Issues, time permitting
    1. Term Vectors
    2. Multilingual Issues
    3. Specific Class Questions
  6. Where to find help

Be sure to bring your questions as well.

Note: In the event you can not attend this training, let me know and I can fill you in on the cost and available times. My email username is gsingers and the domain is apache.org.

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