Re: Lucene vs. in-DB-full-text-searching

2005-02-19 Thread Steven J. Owens
it, and how to do it. This leaves the tricky issue of mapping from a specific database to a specific lucene index up to the developer. -- Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm going to make broad, sweeping generalizations and strong, declarative statements, because otherwise I'll be here all night

Lucene vs. in-DB-full-text-searching

2005-02-18 Thread Steven J. Owens
anybody done some serious investigation into this, and could summarize the pros and cons? -- Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm going to make broad, sweeping generalizations and strong, declarative statements, because otherwise I'll be here all night and this document will be four times

Re: Collaborative Filtering API

2003-11-26 Thread Steven J. Owens
that try to facilitate the way users already do things, instead of replacing them with new ways of doing things, tend to work better. -- Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm going to make broad, sweeping generalizations and strong, declarative statements, because otherwise I'll be here all night

Re: Lucene demo ideas?

2003-09-23 Thread Steven J. Owens
, but something google-flavored might be better at showing off Lucene's features in the demo. -- Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm going to make broad, sweeping generalizations and strong, declarative statements, because otherwise I'll be here all night and this document will be four times longer

Re: Lucene features

2003-09-04 Thread Steven J. Owens
the end of the tunnel, and want to make sure that I'm going down the right path before I spend too much more time on it. It sounds like you ought to at least seriously consider using Lucene, if you can find or implement equivalent features, or decide you can live without them. -- Steven J. Owens

Re: Lucene features

2003-09-02 Thread Steven J. Owens
specifics to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling. Lucene isn't perfect for _everything_ (and anybody who claims that a given technology *is* perfect for _everything_ is lying). But it's quite good for a number of things. -- Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm going to make broad, sweeping

Apache Wiki at nagoya.apache.org

2002-12-21 Thread Steven J. Owens
Hey folks, They've put an apache wiki at nagoya. I took the liberty of writing a paragraph about Lucene, please feel free to completely revise it :-). http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?LuceneProjectPages Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm going to make broad, sweeping

Re: Let me get started

2002-11-13 Thread Steven J. Owens
, but you don't need a database. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm going to make broad, sweeping generalizations and strong, declarative statements, because otherwise I'll be here all night and this document will be four times longer and much less fun to read. Take it all with a grain of salt

Re: Homogeneous vs Heterogeneous indexes (was: FileNotFoundException)

2002-04-29 Thread Steven J. Owens
machine). But they might be interested in a way to offer it as an optional feature, where people using lucene in a constrained environment could configure lucene to be careful about how many files it keeps open at any given time. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: rc4 and FileNotFoundException: an update

2002-04-27 Thread Steven J. Owens
should look at Xindice (http://xml.apache.org/xindice/) which is an XML database. You might find it easier to adapt that to your needs. I'm kind of curious as to how fast Xindice's XPath execution is, and what their indexing is based on - there might be a use for Lucene there. Steven J. Owens

Re: Relevance Feedback

2002-03-29 Thread Steven J. Owens
listings and refined the search based on that - a feature I've often wished for with web search engines). If you could either include me in the CC list, or send me a summary, or possibly (if others are also interested), continue the discussion here, I'd appreciate it. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL

Re: Question on the FAQ list with filters

2002-03-27 Thread Steven J. Owens
. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: corrupted index

2002-03-16 Thread Steven J. Owens
check, if it fails just reindex. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Indexing Dynamically Generated Web Pages

2002-02-20 Thread Steven J. Owens
/lucene/docs/index.html that may be of some use. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: excluding files / refining search

2002-02-14 Thread Steven J. Owens
; } A more realistic implementation would use an exclude file of filenames to ignore, load them into a collection (probably a HashSet) and keep that collection around as an instance variable. Then checkFileName() just returns !excludedSet.contains(name). Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED

eyebrowse database dependency?

2001-12-13 Thread Steven J. Owens
in addition to Lucene itself. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OutOfMemoryError

2001-11-29 Thread Steven J. Owens
, on solaris machines the default ulimit used to be 24 - that's 24 open file handles! Yeesh. This will cause an OutOfMemoryError. So don't assume it's actually a memory problem, particularly if a memory problem doesn't particularly make sense. Just a thought. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OutOfMemoryError

2001-11-29 Thread Steven J. Owens
process (assuming sufficient privileges) use ulimit number (i.e. ulimit 128). ulimit -a prints out all limits. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tutorial

2001-10-31 Thread Steven J. Owens
a bit, maybe come up with some updated code for the examples written on my own time (instead of my employers) so I can publish it, etc. But right now, the current draft is at: http://darksleep.com/puff/lucene.html Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Context specific summary with the search term

2001-10-26 Thread Steven J. Owens
. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new Lucene release: 1.2 RC2

2001-10-22 Thread Steven J. Owens
that Doug's changes fixed it. This is, by the way, why it's important to report problems early, ideally along with test data and code to reproduce it, or at least detailed descriptions of how to reproduce it... Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Index Optimization: Which is Better?

2001-10-11 Thread Steven J. Owens
for a lot of maintenance. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]