: Maybe indexing into a RAMDirectory (an in-memory Lucene index) would : be what you're after?
there was also some discussion on the java-user list back in april about writing a custom IndexReader implementation which could be provided to an IndexSearcher using your own internal data store. thread subject was "Using Lucene for searching tokens, not storing them" started by Karl Wettin http://www.nabble.com/Using-Lucene-for-searching-tokens%2C-not-storing-them.-tf1450305.html -Hoss
