LucidWorks Enterprise 2.0.1 is an interim bug-fix release. We have resolved a couple of critical bugs and LDAP integration issues. The list of issues resolved with this updates are available here.
Download
You can download the latest version 2.0.1 here.
Install
If you are running LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 or LucidWorks 1.8, you can use the upgrade scripts and move to version 2.0.1.
For those of you running LucidWorks Enterprise 2.0, you can now …
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The next JavaMUG meeting is on December 14th 2011. Erik Hatcher from Lucid Imagination will be presenting at the event. He will talk about Apache Solr, its features and benefits. This will be an introductory Solr talk.
Apache Solr serves search requests at enterprises and the largest companies around the world. Built on top of the top–notch Apache Lucene library, Solr makes indexing and searching integration into your applications straightforward.
Solr provides faceted navigation, spell …
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Wildcard query terms aren’t analyzed, why is that?
Prior to the current 3x branch (which will be released as 3.6) and the trunk (4.0) Solr code, users have frequently been perplexed by wildcard searching being un-analyzed, often manifesting in case sensitivity. Say you have an analysis chain in your schema.xml file defined as follows and a field named lc_field of this type:
<fieldType name="lowercase" class="solr.TextField" >
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.LowercaseFilterFactory" />
</fieldType>
Now, you index …
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Official release announcement for Lucene/Solr 3.5:
November 27 2011, Apache Lucene™ 3.5.0 available
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 3.5.0.
Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine
library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly
any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and
improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release…
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Solr Reference Guide version 3.4 is now available. The Reference Guide is designed to provide descriptions of all the important feature and functions of the LucidWorks for Solr Certified Distribution. You can either view it online or download it. It will be of use at any point in the application lifecycle, whether you needed detailed information about Solr or you are just getting started.…
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The use of scripting languages to add new functionality to systems is something that I’ve always found very helpful. You don’t have to download the source code of the system, if it has “scriptable” parts you can add simple functionality in minutes without even compiling. Java provides this capabilities in particular with Javascript. You can refer to http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/scripting/ for more information on this.
Unfortunately, Java 6′s only included library is Rhino that converts the javascript …
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I confess, this is heavily influenced by the eXtreme Programming folks, but I see it recur again and again: we tech folks have historically been far too quick to say “sure, we can do that”. Even worse, I’ve done it myself on far too many occasions.
Yes, we want to be “team players”. No, we don’t like conflict. Yes, often the changes we’re asked to make are technically “interesting” and we like challenges. None of …
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This month’s Wired Magazine features a story on the roots of Hadoop at Yahoo and the three companies vying to drive its commercial frontiers farther forward faster: Hortonworks (Apache Lucene Eurocon Barcelona Keynote Video now available, see below), MapR, and Cloudera. MapR CEO John Schroeder sums it up:
If I can get a terabyte drive for $100 — or less if I buy in bulk — and I can get cheap processing power and network
…
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With a near doubling over the prior year, Apache Lucene Eurocon Barcelona 2011 came to a successful conclusion this past week, featuring over 40 presentations reflecting the breadth, depth, and ambition of open source Apache Lucene / Solr search. Slides can be viewed here, as well as on Slideshare.com.
Nearly 300 attendees converged on one of Europe’s most beautiful cities for two days packed with use cases, implementation discussions, roadmap challenges, hard-won best …
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To hear him tell it two weeks ago, Larry Ellison’s Oracle had everything you need for search technology; no need for that legacy search platform, Autonomy. In fact, Oracle and Mark Hurd had quite a few unflattering things to say about HP and that search technology acquisition.
Now, it turns out, flattery may be part of the equation after all, in the form of imitation. Oracle today announced its intent to acquire the second-biggest …
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