Hi I noticed that a RemoteSearchable has been developed. I was hoping that it will coincide with what I am trying to achieve. Let me describe my scenario briefly:
I have a cluster of JSP containers, each on different physical PCs. This makes it hard to use lucene for each instance, as it is based on the filesystem. Since the search feature of my application is quite small and lucene is very fast, it would be ok to setup one instance of lucene on a physical box. The idea was to expose the critical functions of lucene as RMI calls, eg: - Create index - Remove Index - Search Now, all JSP containers can talk to the "Lucene Search Server" via RMI and perform search functionalities. Does this approach sound feasible? Is anyone currently working in this area? Are there simpler alternatives? I was looking at the SqlDirectory class, but decided against using it because it has not been tested sufficiently, and lucene is really developed to work well with the file system. Any feedback would be appreciated. Regards Keith
