We have the Lucene index sitting out on a Linux server and wrote a little daemon that listens for requests and sends back response objects. We are a large scale simulation outfit and it works great. We also give the node the ability to index locally.
I published a paper all about it that will be presented at SIW this year. Thanks, Rob -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ganyo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:04 PM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: Make Lucene Index distributable Be careful with option 1. NFS and the Lucene file-based locking mechanism don't get along extremely well. (See the archives for details...) Scott Lienhard, Andrew wrote: >I can think of three options: > >1) Single index dir on a shared drive (NFS, etc.) which is mounted on each >app server. > >2) Create copies of the index dir for each machine. Requires regular >updates, etc (not good if search data changes often). > >3) Create a web service for search. Each app server makes an HTTP call to a >standalone Lucene app which returns some sort of XML-formatted search >result. > >I've taken approaches 1 and 3 (w/ Verity, but it would likely be the same w/ >Lucene). 2 is really only good if you have relatively static data. For our >Lucene rollout here, we're going w/ option 1. > >Andrew Lienhard >Web Technology Manager >United Media >200 Madison Avenue >New York, NY 10016 >http://www.dilbert.com >http://www.snoopy.com >http://members.comics.com > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Uhl V., DP ITS, SCB, FD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:05 AM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: Make Lucene Index distributable > >Hallo All, >We have developed our WebApp with Lucene under Tomcat 4.X and stored index >in file system. Now this Web Application have to move to Bea Weblogic >Cluster. My Problem is to create a distributable Index of Lucene. Have one >ideas or experience how to do this?(How to store Index?) > >Thanks for every ideas. > >Mit freundlichen Gr��en >Vitali Uhl > >Client Server Systeme >Deutsche Post ITSolutions GmbH >tel. +49 (0) 661 / 921 -245 >fax: +49 (0) 661 / 921 -111 >internet: http://www.dp-itsolutions.de/ <http://www.dp-itsolutions.de/> >Anschrift: >DP ITSolutions GmbH >D - 36035 Fulda > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. - George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
