Abhijit, > I have indexed a set of local XML files using a small Lucene + > Digester > application. And I have used Nutch to crawl and index a website > using > intranet crawl. Can I use Nutch to do a combined search on both > these different indexes?
Thinking about it the other way around may be easier: use Lucene to search both indices. This may be easier because Nutch in the end creates a regular Lucene index, and because Lucene is a smaller beast than Nutch, and thus easier to work with in the beginning. So, my suggestion is to look at Nutch, figure out where its final index is created, and then look at the Lucene API and write an application that uses it to search all your Lucene/Nutch indices. Otis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simpy -- http://www.simpy.com/ -- Find it. Tag it. Share it.
