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Lucene in Action Erik Hatcher and Otis Gospodnetić 2004 | 456 pages ISBN: 1932394281 |
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$44.95 | Softbound print book | |
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$22.50 | ThoutReader + PDF ebook | |
Book Reviews
"Lucene in Action is one of the best written books in my library of ~300
CS books. It ranks in completeness and clarity up there with works by
David Geary, Martin Fowler, and other Hatcher greats like Java Development
with Ant. Thanks Otis and Erik."
-- Lawrence (posted at java-user@lucene.apache.org)
"Well thought out...thoroughly edited...stands out clearly from the crowd....
I enjoyed reading this book. If you have any text searching needs, this book
will be more than sufficient equipment to guide you to successful completion.
Even, if you are just looking to download a pre-written search engine, then
this book will provide a good background to the nature of information retrieval
in general and text indexing and searching specifically."
--Slashdot.org
"Provides a detailed blueprint for using and customizing Lucene...
a thorough introduction to the inner workings of what's arguably the
most popular open source search engine...loaded with code examples and
emphasizes a hands-on approach to learning."
--SearchEngineWatch.com
"Outstanding...comprehensive and up-to-date ...grab this book and learn
how to leverage Lucene's potential."
--Val's blog
"Search powers the information age. This book is a gateway to this
invaluable resource...It succeeds admirably in elucidating the
application programming interface (API), with many code examples
and cogent explanations, opening the door to a fine tool."
--Computing Reviews
"A must read for anyone who wants to learn about Lucene or is
even considering embedding search into their applications or
just wants to learn about information retrieval in general.
Highly recommended!"
--TheServerSide.com
"I Love Lucene" at TheServerSide.com
Read a testimonial to Lucene at TheServerSide.com
in an article entitled,
"I Love Lucene". This story chronicles how the site implemented a
Lucene
based solution at their site. This is also a case study from the book.
"A comprehensive guide...The authors of this book are experts
in this field ... they have unleashed the power of Lucene
...the best guide to Lucene available so far."
-- JavaReference.com
" Hatcher and Gospodnetic bring their experience as two of Lucene's
core committers to author this excellently written book. This book helps
any developer not familiar with Lucene or development of a search engine
to get up to speed within minutes on the project and domain. ...I would
recommend this book to anyone who is new to Lucene, anyone who needs
powerful indexing and searching capabilities in their application, or
anyone who needs a great reference for Lucene."
-- Fort Worth Java Users Group
MEET LUCENE at JavaLobby
Learn about Lucene direct from source! View the excellent audio-video
presentation by co-author Erik Hatcher entitled "Meet Lucene" at Javalobby.org.
You can download and watch the entire presentation on demand!
"A quick and easy guide to making Lucene work."
--Books-On-Line
DESCRIPTION
Lucene is a gem in the open-source world--a highly scalable, fast search engine. It delivers performance and is disarmingly easy to use. Lucene in Action is the authoritative guide to Lucene. It describes how to index your data, including types you definitely need to know such as MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. It introduces you to searching, sorting, filtering, and highlighting search results.
Lucene powers search in surprising places--in discussion groups at Fortune 100 companies, in commercial issue trackers, in email search from Microsoft, in the Nutch web search engine (that scales to billions of pages). It is used by diverse companies including Akamai, Overture, Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New Scientist Magazine, and many others.
Adding search to your application can be easy. With many reusable examples and good advice on best practices, Lucene in Action shows you how. And if you would like to search through Lucene in Action over the Web, you can do so using Lucene itself as the search engine--take a look at the authors' awesome Search Inside solution. Its results page resembles Google's and provides a novel yet familiar interface to the entire book and book blog.
What's Inside
- How to integrate Lucene into your applications
- Ready-to-use framework for rich document handling
- Case studies including Nutch, TheServerSide, jGuru, etc.
- Lucene ports to Perl, Python, C#/.Net, and C++
- Sorting, filtering, term vectors, multiple, and remote index searching
- The new SpanQuery family, extending query parser, hit collecting
- Performance testing and tuning
- Lucene add-ons (hit highlighting, synonym lookup, and others)
- Foreword by Doug Cutting, the inventor of Lucene
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...
"...packed with examples and advice on how to effectively use this incredibly powerful tool." -- Brian Goetz, Principal Consultant, Quiotix Corporation
"...it unlocked for me the amazing power of Lucene." -- Reece Wilton, Staff Engineer, Walt Disney Internet Group
"...the code examples are useful and reusable." -- Scott Ganyo, Jakarta Lucene Committer
"...code samples as JUnit test cases are incredibly helpful." -- Norman Richards, co-author XDoclet in Action
WHAT THE READERS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...
"My suggestion to you: pick up a copy of Lucene in Action. You'll
get plenty of support on this mailing list, but you can educate yourself much
more effectively with that book...It's the cheapest consulting ($40) you can get."
-- Participant on java-user@lucene.apache.org
"Our development team has been able to fully
implement/integrate Lucene in our system in just a
week. That's an absolute record, for us, for the
adoption of any component and Lucene in Action has
been invaluable in achieving it, as well as the easy,
nice architecture of Lucene, of course, that is so
well explained in the book."
-- Irakli N.
"I bought the Lucene in Action ebook, which is
excellent and I can strongly recommend [it].
...Thanks to the authors for Lucene in Action,
it's given me the high level best practices
I was needing."
-- Steve S.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS...
A committer on the Ant, Lucene, and Tapestry open-source projects, Erik Hatcher is coauthor of Manning's award-winning Java Development with Ant.
Otis Gospodnetic is a Lucene committer, a member of Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee, and maintainer of the jGuru's Lucene FAQ.
Both authors have published numerous technical articles including several on Lucene.