Hi Jack, sorry if I missed the part about "but that deal fell through". I met you at Lucene Revolution where you were talking about the book. Too bad, since you can never have too many books.
The Lucene documentation leaves a lot to be desired, but as many have commented, the Solr documentation contains many Lucene concepts: http://docs.lucidworks.com/display/solr/Apache+Solr+Reference+Guide -- Ivan On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > Oh, yeah, ... that was the original book, that got canceled. Long story. > O'Reilly should have taken that page down by now - oh well. But now I have > the Solr-only book, self-published as an e-book on Lulu.com. > > Yes, LIA2 is still a valuable resource. Details have changed, but most > concepts are still valid. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Ivan Brusic > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:41 AM > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Lucene in Action > > Jack, don't you also have a book coming out on O'Reilly? > > http://shop.oreilly.com/**product/0636920028765.do<http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028765.do> > > Lucene in Action might be outdated, but many of the core concepts remain > the same. The analysis chain (analyzers/tokenizers) might have a slightly > different API, but the concepts are still valid. > > -- > Ivan > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Vinh Dang <dqvin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank Jack very much. >> >> Btw, I still find a details tutorial which guide me step by step, from >> download lucene until configure IDE (I unzipped lucene and received a >> complex folder - I don't know what should I do next?) >> >> And, a dummy question,there are three files to download in lucene 4.3.1 >> download page. Which file I should download? >> Sent from my BlackBerry(R) smartphone from Viettel >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Jack Krupansky" <j...@basetechnology.com> >> Sender: "Jack Krupansky" <j...@basetechnology.com> >> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:50:39 >> To: <java-user@lucene.apache.org> >> Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Lucene in Action >> >> I would also note that Solr is a great way to start learning Lucene since >> a >> lot of the underlying Lucene concepts are visible in Solr and eventually a >> lot of Lucene users will end up having to re-invent features that Solr >> adds >> to Lucene, anyway. >> >> Maybe when I finish covering Solr in my e-book I'll start diving into >> coverage of Lucene as well. The original book idea did include covering >> both >> Lucene and Solr, but that deal fell through and I decided to stick with >> Solr >> as my initial focus. >> >> Actually, I've already had some thoughts about adding some chapters on a >> deeper dive into underlying Lucene concepts for Solr users, such as the >> structure of Query objects and tokenization and token filtering, mostly >> since advanced Solr users run into issues there, but those areas are >> difficult for Lucene users as well. >> >> My e-book: >> >> http://www.lulu.com/shop/jack-**krupansky/solr-4x-deep-dive-** >> early-access-release-2/ebook/**product-21099700.html<http://www.lulu.com/shop/jack-krupansky/solr-4x-deep-dive-early-access-release-2/ebook/product-21099700.html> >> >> -- Jack Krupansky >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Erick Erickson >> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:14 AM >> To: java-user ; dqvin...@gmail.com >> Subject: Re: Lucene in Action >> >> Right, unfortunately, there's nothing that I know of that's super-recent. >> Jack Kupransky is e-publishing a book on Solr, which will be more up >> to date but I don't know how thoroughly it dives into the underlying >> Lucene >> code. >> >> Otherwise, I think the best thing is to tackle a real problem (perhaps >> try working on a JIRA?) and get into it that way. >> >> The 3.1 book has a lot of good background, it's still valuable. But the >> examples will be out of date. >> >> Unfortunately, writing a book is an incredible amount of work, writing >> code is much more fun <G>... >> >> Best >> Erick >> >> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Vinh Dang <dqvin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Please try, I am new on Lucene also, and willing to study and share :) >> > Sent from my BlackBerry(R) smartphone from Viettel >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: "Vinh Dang" <dqvin...@gmail.com> >> > Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 15:19:41 >> > To: <java-user@lucene.apache.org> >> > Reply-To: dqvin...@gmail.com >> > Subject: Re: Lucene in Action >> > >> > You have my yesterday question :) >> > >> > After unzip lucene, you just need to import lucene core. JAR file into >> > your project to use (with eclipse,just drag and drop). >> > >> > Lucene core.jar (I do not remember exact name, but easy to find this jar >> > file) provides core functions of lucene >> > ------Original Message------ >> > From: Šimun Šunjić >> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org >> > ReplyTo: java-user@lucene.apache.org >> > Subject: Lucene in Action >> > Sent: Jul 9, 2013 16:08 >> > >> > I am learning about Apache Lucene from Manning book: Lucene in Action. >> > However examples from book is for Lucene v3.0.3 and today Lucene is in >> > version 4.3.1. I can't find any good newer Lucene tutorial for learning, >> > can you guys from community suggest me some :) >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > -- >> > mag.inf. Šunjić Šimun >> > >> > >> > Sent from my BlackBerry(R) smartphone from Viettel >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> java-user-unsubscribe@lucene.**apache.org<java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> java-user-help@lucene.apache.**org<java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org> >> >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> java-user-unsubscribe@lucene.**apache.org<java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> java-user-help@lucene.apache.**org<java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > java-user-unsubscribe@lucene.**apache.org<java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > java-user-help@lucene.apache.**org<java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org> > >
