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Yesterday I attended the Lucene workshop at Amis, and NO I am NOT thinking about switching, it’s all about knowledge… and this time I took the opportunity to invite the attending Amis developers to the JRuby seminar by Charles Nutter organized by Finalist.
The presentation and workshop where presented by my ex-colleague Jeroen van Wilgenburg. The presentation he gave included various topics:

• Lucene basics
• Basic lucene queries
• Filters (analyzer AND query filters)
• Tools (luke)
• Integration frameworks (hibernate lucene, spring modules)

Amazing to see how difficult the subject seems to be for some; but on the other hand… I’ve been involved in projects using Lucene for quite a while now.

Personally I would have discussed the excellent compass framework instead of the Hibernate Lucene integration (which is far from perfect and marked ‘experimental’).

I have been working with Compass for the past couple of days and must say it’s quite good, apart from the often really sloppy documentation. I’ll see and try to write another post on Compass (and the modifications we had to make to really make it work) in the near future (hopefully from my new MacBook Pro which should be arriving next Monday).