--- Original Message --- From: "Clemens Marschner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lucene Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 01:13:47 +0100 Subject: The LARM project
>It's been weeks now that there were talks on this list about how the >future of Lucene could look like. We all agreed that the core engine >is solid and only needs little enhancements. > >However, we also agreed that in order to leverage Lucene to a higher >level we will need a best-practices implementation of the most >common cases the Lucene engine is used for. > >Since then, there were a lot of talks off-list among a group of >people who mostly contributed code to the lucene-sandbox area, about >how these parts could be brought together to form a greater whole. > >The result has now emerged, after weeks of discussion, in a proposal >that we would like to discuss with the rest of you before spending >even more weeks arguing about details. We currently regard it as a >sandbox project. >It consists of two parts: The Lucene Framework and the Lucene >Retrieval Machine. The latter based upon the former, we call the >whole package "LARM" (which is by coincidence also the name of the >old crawler. We haven't figured out yet what the "A" stands for, >though...). > >The mission we came up with reads like this: > >"The Lucene Retrieval Machine forms a complete and highly scalable >search solution for end-users of the Lucene search engine: Capable >of intelligently indexing data from various sources, preprocessing >of source documents configurable by the end user, up to a best- >practice implementation of online search functionality. > >It will be based on the Lucene Framework that provides >implementations for data aggregation and indexing functionality >utilizing the Lucene indexing API, while being easily extensible and >constructible by application developers or researchers." > >As it turns out, much of the functionality we would regard to be an >essential core of this search engine server (lifecycle management, >configuration etc.) is already provided by the Apache Avalon >project, especially by the Phoenix meta-server. Avalon comes with a >different (and therefore a little more complicated) philosophy most >of us are used to, but I have already pitched a note on their >mailing list asking for support, and received an enormous response. >We would like to get in contact with them - >perhaps a viable collaboration can emerge. > >The rest of the documents can be downloaded from CVS from > >jakarta-lucene-sandbox/projects/larm/docs > > >Regards, > >Clemens Marschner > >(with Otis Gospodnetic, Peter Carlson, and Kelvin Tan) > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-dev- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:lucene-dev- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
