[CPS-devel] Status of NXLucene / Lucene 2.0

[Jean-Marc Orliaguet]

Marc Weeber wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For our applications, we are looking into using Lucene as an indexing 
> and search engine. We will have different client apps (amonf others, 
> zope-based) and one server that should host the indexes and recieve 
> and deal with all the requests. NXLucene seems to fit this purpose, 
> however, I do have some questions that you might be able to respond to:
>
> 1) I have been browsing the cps-devel list and reading the comments on 
> PyLucene 2.0 and NXLucene.
>     - Am I correct that the pylucene 2 branch 
> (http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/browser/NXLucene/branches/pylucene2) 
> contains all the necessary code?

yes it does, for pylucene-2.0.0 and pylucene-2.1.x

>     - What is the status of this code? Has it already been used in 
> production or is it more beta or even alpha like re: stability

we've had it in production for 2 weeks now, without any issue apart from 
the memory leak described on the list (completely solved by moving to 
gcj-4.2.0 / pylucene-2.1, this is not related to NXLucene though).

/JM


> 2) To me, it seems that NXLucene has been developed/optimized with 
> "read" in mind for online (zope/python) applications. But I assume 
> that any Lucene index file created with PyLucene or Lucene, will be 
> readable by  NXLucene. Is this correct and has it been tested by anyone?
> 3) How active is the development on NXLucene now that Nuxeo has moved 
> on to Java?
>
> Thansk in advance for the info,
>
> kind regards,
>
> Marc Weeber
>
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