At the risk to starting a religious war, what do folk here think of 
Lucene/Plucene?

My favorite indexer is swish-e. Quick. Easy. Well documented. Feature 
rich. Comes with a Perl API as well as API's for other languages. The 
query syntax is straight forward.

As the amount of content I plan to index increases I begin to need an 
incremental indexing feature. I also need multi-byte character 
indexing. Lucene/Plucene offer these features at the expense of greater 
complexity. Lucene/Plucene is 100% a toolbox, no application. It does 
not index files, but rather data structures. This means I can not point 
it to file system and have it automatically extract the meta data, 
content, etc.

What experience do others here in Swish-E World have with 
Lucene/Plucene?

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Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame

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