Make the most of Lucene by understanding its philosophy and leveraging the data searching capability of your applicationExplore techniques to design scalable and succinct search applicationsPacked with clear, step-by-step recipes to walk you through the capabilities of LuceneThis book is for software developers who are new to Lucene and who want to explore the more advanced topics to build a search engine. Knowledge of Java is necessary to follow the code samples. You will learn core concepts, best practices, and also advanced features, in order to build an effective search application.