Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Version 2.1.0 of Apache Lucene is now available.  It includes many new performance enhancements and features.  Users should note that it changes the Lucene index file format, so previous versions of Lucene will not be able to read a 2.1.0 version of Lucene.  Lucene 2.1.0 will be able to read older versions, however.
Lucene, new release, [...]

As I posted earlier, I will be giving a talk and a tutorial at ApacheCon Europe this year on the Apache Lucene Java project. My talk is titled “Advance Lucene”. Here is the abstract:
Lucene Java is a high performance, scalable, cross-platform search engine that contains many advanced features that often are under utilized [...]

I have received official word from ApacheCon that 2 of my proposals have been accepted. I will be giving the “Advanced Lucene” talk on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007. This talk will focus on advanced querying capabilities, term vectors and Lucene performance. I will also be giving a full day tutorial on Lucene [...]

ApacheCon 2007 Europe: Sessions
Haven’t received official word yet, but it looks like my talk and tutorial have been approved for ApacheCon Europe.  Sweet!

It has been a busy week, Lucene wise; sometimes it seems it is all I can do to keep up with the dev mailing list with work, life, etc.  I have managed to work a bit on Lucene 675.  Doron Cohen has submitted quite a nice upgrade to the current benchmarking suite that provides expandability, [...]

[#LUCENE-753] Use NIO positional read to avoid synchronization in FSIndexInput - ASF JIRA
Want a crash course in NIO and fast IO in Java?  Then take a look at this issue for Lucene and then go do your homework.  The transferTo() trick is something I haven’t seen before and was a bit blown away by.  I [...]

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition - Simple Search Just Got Easier
FYI: Uses Lucene under the hood

Check out the new Lucene Java site.  Mostly the same content as the previous, but now similar look and feel to the other Lucene sites (SOLR, Hadoop, Nutch.)

Thanks to Jet Brains for the free open source license for IntelliJ for work on Lucene. If your a Java developer and haven’t used IntelliJ, you don’t know what you are missing. It takes the tedium out of the tedious parts of coding and makes the hard part of coding easier.