Lucene in Action

by Michael McCandless, Eric Hatcher, Otis Godspodnetic

Covers Apache Lucene 3.0

Genres: Programming

528 pages, ebook

Reviews

[Filip Boltuzic · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book, designed for engineers desiring to start work with Lucene. Even though it covers an earlier version of Lucene compared to one available today, the principles building search still stand. Personally, I would prefer it to describe Lucene internals in more detail (on track of what's done in chapter 11). The idea of test driven examples is great since it makes it very easy to follow and try out examples.

[Simon Eskildsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it, but I wish it'd go a level or two deeper into the actual data-structures. I think that's more due to the 'in action' series than the author's true desires (his blog is a treasure trove on search data-structures and algorithms).

[Kaustubh J · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has an excellent amount of information pertaining to lucene (from a breadth perspective). However where it fails is in the fact that lucene 9.x.y is significantly different in certain methods and utility than what it was when the book was updated

[Joan{missing the vampire bunny slippers!} · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's good as a guide through Lucene, but it's outdated.
Lucene 4.0 is very different so if this doesn't follow it won't be any help to anyone