Lucene (Was: SOUNDEX() in MSSQL)

OK, does anyone have any good examples of setting up and using Lucene? The Apache docs are not beginner friendly... On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM, James Smith <james@music-express.co.uk> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- -- James Smith IT Director Music Express Ltd

Ray Camden has some stuff on his site.  Search his site for Lucene. He has some code samples. look for the download links at the bottom of his posts http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/9/30/ColdFusion-Lucene-Test I have got it up and running so it is do-able cflucene.org is MIA btw I have the source somewhere if you are interested. G On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, James Smith <james@music-express.co.uk> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Cheers, will have a look into it early next week. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Gerald Guido <gerald.guido@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Another good option is to look at Apache Solr, which is a really nice web-service style wrapper around Lucene. I've used it on a couple of projects a while back and it's *really* nice. It's all lucene under the hood, but you configure, maange, and access through the web. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM, James Smith <james@music-express.co.uk> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

James, MSSQL's full text search is very capable, flexible and can most probably do what what you are looking to do. It can also index documents using MS's indexing services. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142571.aspx On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, James Smith <james@music-express.co.uk> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Can you do a "more like this" functionality using full text search?  Can you have it parse your keywords automatically?   IMHO Lucene is far more capable, although requires some custom Java programming and external indexing. Russ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

>> Can you do a "more like this" functionality using full text search? >>Can you have it parse your keywords automatically? Probably not. It didn't look that smart from what I saw. That project got back burnered before I was able to really dig in.  I will be revisiting it in the future, and you have definitely picked (sp?) my interest. I take it you have delved into Lucene. Would you be as kind as to point to any resources you found helpful? Many TIA, G On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Russ <cflists@ruslansivak.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

The book Lucene In Action: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=1932394281&tag=xdea-20&inde x=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 has been invaluable, but its written for a much older version of Lucene.  It is still pretty much required reading if you want to delve in deep. After this, the Lucene-User list has been invaluable: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/mailinglists.html   If you ask a lot of n00b questions though, expect to see responses such as "Have you read Lucene in Action?", but generally people are very helpful. Russ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Thank you sir, I appreciate your time and effort in assisting me with this. G On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Russ <cflists@ruslansivak.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----