I have never used Lucene under Windows, but I do know that some quite high profile Internet companies have used Lucene.net port and are happy with it. See http://xanga.com
Otis ----- Original Message ---- From: George Carrette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: general@lucene.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 1:00:08 PM Subject: What are the pros and cons of using the C# version of Lucene as compared to the Java version in a .NET environment? If you are developing mainly in the Microsoft.NET framework 2.0 then it seems that you have 3 choices for running Lucene. What are the pros and cons of each choice? 1. Use the C# code from the apache incubator project Lucene.Net http://incubator.apache.org/projects/lucene.net.html 2. Use the flagship project Lucene Java http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html With the Sun java runtime and define some web services in an application such As Apache Tomcat that you can call from your other .NET framework code. 3. Use the Lucene Java sources as above, but compile it using the J# compiler, such As illustrated here: http://alum.mit.edu/www/gjc/lucene-java-vjc.html I am particularly interested in risks associated with choice #3. Is the Microsoft J# compiler to be trusted? Do the people using the gcj compiler have any experience to guide somebody considering the use of a Java compiler not provided by Sun? This is for a mission-critical application at a high profile internet media company.
