Move Kuromoji to analysis.ja and introduce Japanese* naming
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Key: LUCENE-3909
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3909
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: modules/analysis
Affects Versions: 3.6, 4.0
Reporter: Christian Moen
Lucene/Solr 3.6 and 4.0 will get out-of-the-box Japanese language support
through {{KuromojiAnalyzer}}, {{KuromojiTokenizer}} and various other filters.
These filters currently live in {{org.apache.lucene.analysis.kuromoji}}.
I'm proposing that we move Kuromoji to a new Japanese package
{{org.apache.lucene.analysis.ja}} in line with how other languages are
organized. As part of this, I also think we should rename {{KuromojiAnalyzer}}
to {{JapaneseAnalyzer}}, etc. to further align naming to our conventions by
making it very clear that these analyzers are for Japanese. (As much as I like
the name "Kuromoji", I think "Japanese" is more fitting.)
A potential issue I see with this that I'd like to raise and get feedback on,
is that end-users in Japan and elsewhere who use lucene-gosen could have issues
after an upgrade since lucene-gosen is in fact releasing its analyzers under
the {{org.apache.lucene.analysis.ja}} namespace (and we'd have a name clash).
I believe users should have the freedom to choose whichever Japanese analyzer,
filter, etc. they'd like to use, and I don't want to propose a name change that
just creates unnecessary problems for users, but I think the naming proposed
above is most fitting for a Lucene/Solr release.
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