Congratulations on the book. I ordered my copy the other day via regular post and am eagerly awaiting it. It looks like it will make lucene available to a much wider audience.
Based on the table of contents, I wanted to toss out a couple of ideas for your next book or articles. 1. I didn't see any examples of indexing a database table. Although it was mentioned in Chapter 1. At the company I am currently consulting at, we index the data from the database because its cleaner than indexing the web. This discussion should include why you would want to use lucene to index a database table, rather than just using the database indexes. (The top reasons we choose to use Lucene instead of just database indexes are: It allows stem word recognition; It allows fuzzy searching; It ranks the results based on how good the match is; It contains a parser that will parse natural language queries; It has better Analyzers) 2. This one is a cookbook idea, I think it would be possible to index the access log of web server. Than when a user views product X the searcher could search for a other products that were viewed by people that also looked at product X. In this way you can create basic "cross-selling" opportunities. This feature is a big seller to managers for commercial search offerings. 3. A lot of search applications being built using lucene are web applications. I didn't see any reference to the two different strategies for paging a hit list. The two strategies are repeating the search and caching a search. An example of this would be good. [I know that I have seen this online, its just nice to have a reference in book form] Please don't take this as criticism. First of all, because I have not read the book. Secondly, I am excluding the other 17 topics that I thought should be in a book (for example, indexing PDFs, highlighting search results, create a thesaurus, suggesting alternatives spellings, filtering by ACLs, etc...) because they are clearly in your table of contents. I look forward to reading the book and appreciate your 14+ months of hard work to create a concise but valuable book for Lucene. Jonathan On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 03:52:55 -0500, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Lucene in Action e-book is now available at Manning's site: > > http://www.manning.com/hatcher2 > > Manning also put lots of other goodies there, the table of contents, > "about this book", preface, the foreward from Doug Cutting himself > (thanks Doug!!!), and a couple of sample chapters. The complete source > code is there as well. > > Now comes the exciting part to find out what others think of the work > Otis and I spent 14+ months of our lives on. > > Erik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
