how lucene search?

2003-06-25 Thread di99mwo
Hi. I have read some documents about lucene. I have questions about how lucene search for matching words. I think I got it wrong, but here is what I get out of the text I read: Documents contents fields. In one of the field-value there are terms that are searchable. When the searched term is

RE: commercial websites powered by Lucene?

2003-06-25 Thread John Takacs
Tatu, I agree 100% with everything you've said. Let's look at MySQL for example. Great database. No doubt about it. BUT, looking at the Full text indexing/searching part...it not up to snuff. Currently, I'm using mysql's full text search support. I have a database of 3-5 million rows. Each

Re: commercial websites powered by Lucene?

2003-06-25 Thread Ulrich Mayring
John Takacs wrote: I'd love to try Lucene with the above, but the Lucene install fails because of JavaCC issues. Surprised more people haven't encountered this problem, as the install instructions are out of date. Well, what do you need JavaCC for? Isn't it just the technology for building the

RE: commercial websites powered by Lucene?

2003-06-25 Thread John Takacs
Good idea. I was just following the install directions, but if I don't have to pay attention to the install directions, I'll find a much better one. Any hints? Previous email discussion maybe? I found some references via searching the archives, but I'm not 100% convinced they are applicable to

Re: commercial websites powered by Lucene?

2003-06-25 Thread Ulrich Mayring
John Takacs wrote: Good idea. I was just following the install directions, but if I don't have to pay attention to the install directions, I'll find a much better one. Any hints? Previous email discussion maybe? I found some references via searching the archives, but I'm not 100% convinced they

RE: commercial websites powered by Lucene?

2003-06-25 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
I'd love to try Lucene with the above, but the Lucene install fails because of JavaCC issues. Surprised more people haven't encountered this problem, as the install instructions are out of date. The JavaCC fix is in the queue. Check Bugzilla for details (link on Lucene home page). Otis

Re: commercial websites powered by Lucene?

2003-06-25 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Well, what do you need JavaCC for? Isn't it just the technology for building the supplied HTML-Parser? There are much better HTML parsers out there, which you can use. Its primary use in Lucene package is for parsing users' queries. Otis __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: commercial websites powered by Lucene?

2003-06-25 Thread Tatu Saloranta
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 09:47, Ulrich Mayring wrote: John Takacs wrote: I'd love to try Lucene with the above, but the Lucene install fails because of JavaCC issues. Surprised more people haven't encountered this problem, as the install instructions are out of date. Well, what do you