Sounds like you should simply open & warm the reader in a background thread...
You might want to use the SearcherManager class from upcoming Lucene in Action 2nd edition (NOTE: I'm a co-author). You can download the source code @ http://manning.com/hatcher3. Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org