Yes. Single IndexWriter could be maintained in a App and it could be closed when the App is shutdown.
Regards Ganesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amin Mohammed-Coleman" <ami...@gmail.com> To: <java-user@lucene.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:27 PM Subject: IndexWriter > Hi > > This question has probably been asked before so apologies for asking it > again. Just to confirm that it is ok to use a single index writer in a web > application and only close that single instance on application shutdown? As > the indexwriter is thread safe there is no need for any external > synchronisation. Am I correct in thinking this? > > I have configured via spring a single index writer which is used in the > application and I use the same one for adding and updating documents. This > index writer is closed when the spring application context shutsdown. > > > Cheers > Amin > Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org