You might want to re-examine your assumptions about Lucene. One can view the index constructed by Lucene as being itself a database; and therefore it would be possible (though probably not desireable) to construct an ODBC adapter and access the content of a Lucene index as if it were a typical relational database using SQL via Microsoft ADO.
Another thought to consider is that Lucene gets a large part of its search speed by the specific data structures it uses. Revising Lucene to access a traditional database directly, to use the database tables as its "index", would most likely reduce search performance below the level where searching the data via Lucene provides any practical benefit. I think it best to view Lucene as an attachment that you use in addition to (or in parallel with) your database. Hope this helps. -- Neal -----Original Message----- From: Maha Khairy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:55 PM To: lucene dotNet Subject: question Hello I wanted to build a search engine using the net-lucene, the problem is I find it a little ambiguous to understand , I know it doesn't do crawling and I understood it only do the indexing and the searching, but it doesn't interact with any database, I assume it use data structures instead of tables in database, Anyway, now I need to know if I understood right, and how to make it interact with database (if my assumption was true, what are the classes that I need to modify to do that) And if the lucene have any flowcharts, activity diagrams or any diagrams that show the flow of data how do I get them. Another question If I wanted to support a certain language what are the classes that I'll need to implement Thanks in advance
