I'm about to start some refactorings on the web application demo that ships with Lucene to show off its features and be usable more easily and cleanly out of the box - i.e. just drop into Tomcat's webapps directory and go.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what they'd like to see in the demo app? Some of my ideas are:

- Eliminate the need to do a command-line indexing, let the web app do this upon command, allowing you to specify where the index lives (there will be a reasonable default like ~/lucenedemo/index perhaps) and what directory tree to index (perhaps defaulting to the root directory or c:\, or where instead?)

- Spin off a background indexing thread so the web app searching is immediately useful after kicking off the indexing process, and allow a status view of the indexing progress.

- Index text and HTML files. Any others? I don't want to get into putting too many dependencies in though - let's keep it relatively simple, although still demonstrative. Allow search filtering by last modified date range and document type (extension).

- Perhaps allow you to specify the analyzer to use when indexing.

- Show the explanation of how scores are computed in the search results as an option.

I'm all ears to possibilities of improvements! Send your wishlist.

Erik


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