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Author: Michael McCandless
ISBN : 1933988177
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Michael McCandless has been building search engines for over a decade. In 1999 he founded iPhrase, a startup providing enterprise search software written in Python and C. When IBM acquired iPhrase in 2005, he became interested to Lucene and started contributing patches, becoming a committer in 2006 and a PMC member.
Erik Hatcher, one of the original Lucene in Action authors, is a committer on the Ant, Lucene, and Tapestry open-source projects, and coauthor of Manning's award-winning Java Development with Ant.
Otis Gospodnetic is a coauthor of the first edition of Lucene in Action. He has been involved with Lucene since 2000 and is also an active member of Apache Solr, Nutch, and Mahout development teams, as well as Lucene Project Management Committee. Otis is a founder of Sematext, a software development and consulting company focused on Lucene, Solr, Nutch, and Hadoop.
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- Paperback: 475 pages
- Publisher: Manning Publications; 2 edition (July 28, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933988177
- ISBN-13: 978-1933988177
- Product Dimensions: 1 x 7.5 x 9.2 inches
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Free Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0
The company I was working for started using Elastic Search (which is built on top of Lucene), so I was looking for a good source on Lucene and decided to buy this book. This is a pretty detailed book on Lucene. It covers a lot of topics including analyzing, indexing, searching, extracting text from other document formats than text files, contrib extensions, performance tuning and case studies. The presentation is overall nice and understandable for the most part. Some of the chapters and sections in some chapters are contributed by other folks than the primary authors of this book, so you will notice a style difference from time. I found only one or two chapters to be very dry (e.g.: one of the case studies). After reading the book from cover to cover and trying out almost all the examples provided in this book, now I feel more comfortable using abstractions on top of Lucene such as Elastic Search. There are a couple of things I didn't like about this book: while the source code is available for download, it's all in one project with different packages for each chapter built with ant - I would have preferred separated projects organized with maven instead which would make it a lot easier to manager dependencies as well as made it easier to follow for the reader. Secondly, some of the ant targets don't work at all - if you invoke it, you will see some errors. There are also some annoying typos in this book. For example on page 445, to invoke the benchmark contrib, you will see the command as 'ant run-task -Dtask-alg=<file.alg>' where -Dtask-alg should be -Dtask.alg. I converted all the examples to maven with some difficulty (for finding dependencies as well as adjusting some of the source code). If you are planning on trying out the examples, I would recommend using Lucene 3.0.
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