Welcome to the Lucene Web Service
The Lucene Web Service is a REST-compliant Java servlet capable of searching and managing multiple Lucene indices via the web.
It is built upon the Atom Publishing Protocol and conforms to the OpenSearch 1.1 standard. Distributions are licensed under the Apache License and may be obtained from the downloads section.
News
- Thursday, January 18, 2007
- Release candidate 1.0_01 is now available for download.
- Monday, July 24, 2006
- Lucene Web Service now depends upon Lucene 2.0.0
- Older
- The Lucene Web Service now depends on Lucene 1.9.1
- We've added the ability to do "did you mean?" query suggestions
- Expect an official Lucene Web Service release in the near future
Indices
The Lucene Web Service is capable of creating, editing and deleting indices located on a file system. If desired, individual documents may be uniquely identified within an index to facilitate more precise management. This allows for a stronger correlation between index data and database data than what is traditionally offered by Lucene.
Searching
The Index Search API allows indices hosted by the web service to be searched by any OpenSearch reader. With this in mind, making your application interface with the service should be relatively pain free, provided your language has appropriate libraries.