Welcome to Lucene Tutorial.com

Lucene is an open-source full-text search library which makes it easy to add search functionality to an application or website.

The goal of Lucene Tutorial.com is to provide a gentle introduction into Lucene.

First-time Visitors

If this is your first-time here, you most probably want to go straight to the 5 minute introduction to Lucene.

What's New

11/12/08
Fixed broken link to Lucene Scoring docs.
06/17/08
Added a new article on indexing databases with Lucene.
06/07/08
Added a new article on using Lucene with a scripting frontend like PHP, Python or Perl.
04/25/08
A new section called Sample Apps has been added, and the first sample app is a TextFileIndexer which indexes text and HTML files on your file system.
04/25/08
You can now subscribe to RSS feeds of updates to LuceneTutorial.com. The RSS feed link is available at the bottom of the page (see the icon?).

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04/24/07
Some visitors have asked for help installing Lucene.

Instructions have been added to the bottom of Lucene in 5 minutes.