Good, but soon to be obsolete

This is a fine primer on Lucene, the best all-purpose, open-source search technology currently available. The code examples in this book are for Java, but Lucene can also be used via Ruby, Python, or many other languages. If you need to get up-and-running with Lucene right away, look no further.

But if you can wait, the second edition of this book is due in June. Not only will it be updated to reflect changes in the Lucene project over the last few years, but it also promises to offer more information on debugging (a thorny subject that the first edition sadly tiptoes around) and on using Lucene from languages other than Java. Most of the second edition is already available as an eBook through Manning's "Early Access" program.

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• Good, but soon to be obsolete