Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0
Item Description
When Lucene first hit the scene five years ago, it was nothing short of amazing. By using this open-source, highly scalable, super-fast search engine, developers could integrate search into applications quickly and efficiently. A lot has changed since then-search has grown from a "nice-to-have" feature into an indispensable part of most enterprise applications. Lucene now powers search in diverse companies including Akamai, Netflix, LinkedIn, Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New Scientist Magazine, and many others.
Some things remain the same, though. Lucene still delivers high-performance search features in a disarmingly easy-to-use API. Due to its vibrant and diverse open-source community of developers and users, Lucene is relentlessly improving, with evolutions to APIs, significant new features such as payloads, and a huge increase (as much as 8x) in indexing speed with Lucene 2.3.
And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice on best practices, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide to developing with Lucene.
Product Details
- Author: Michael McCandless
- Publication Date: 2010-07-28
- Publisher: Manning Publications
- Product Group: Book
- Manufacturer: Manning Publications
- Binding: Paperback, 475 pages
- Features:
- ISBN13: 9781933988177
- Condition: New
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- Package Dimensions:
- Dimensions: 920L x 730W x 110H
- Weight: 185
- List Price: $49.99
- ISBN: 1933988177
- ASIN: 1933988177
Customer Reviews
Average Amazon User Rating:
2nd edition awesome!
2010-08-07
Reviewer: Arun Rangarajan
I think the overall rating for this book is at 4.0, only because of some people using the older first edition and finding that it is already out of date. Also it would be nice if amazon separates product ratings from the shipping/supplier ratings, because the book's rating unfortunately suffers because of a bad shipment rating!
I was waiting eagerly for the 2nd edition and it is out now. It is written extremely well. It still has the same flow, clarity and style as the first edition. If you need to know lucene well, then the 2nd edition is a must-have! It also has lots of new chapters (like the one on tika).
Thanks to apache software foundation for their open source software development & support!
Useful but the details are out of date
2009-06-08
Reviewer: Anthony Williams
Good for learning the principles and has a good overview of the classes and building blocks of text search, but many of the sub-classes have changed since this edition was first published. Unless you are in a hurry to learn Lucene (I was, and it certainly helped) I would wait until the next edition comes out in September (2009).
Good, but soon to be obsolete
2009-03-11
Reviewer: Trevor Burnham
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.
Not of much use
2008-11-25
Reviewer: Chandan Kumar
The book is on outdated Lucene version, so is of little use. I returned the book
Good book, does not matter
2008-11-14
Reviewer: Raymond M. Lukas
Book is well written, great examples, good in every respect except one.. It no longer matters.. Why even finish writing this book, they should start on one for the current version and give at least a free electronic copy to the people that bought this one.. We live in a fast paced world, I understand that.. The book is good, no doubt, but can we have one for the current version? Major classes are now deprecated, like HIT class.. Kind of defeats the purpose for having this book... The book is good, he did a great job, or is doing a great job, it is a work in progress.. but why continue, right?
