Plucene a Perl Port Of Lucene

Kasei: Plucene
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Found via chris winters from blojsom tee on Erik's Weblog

However, in order to fully develop our vision of the next version of Twingle, we needed more control over the fine nuances of searching through email. And, as the next phase of the Twingle development is to include a downloadable version of the software, we needed it to make it easier for people to install - when the lead developer gave up after 6 hours of trying to get it all working on his own machine at home we knew we had a problem!

For the last year we have employed renowned Perl guru Simon Cozens to work with us on Twingle, and as his final project we asked him to port Lucene to Perl.

And so, Kasei is proud to announce the release of Plucene - a Perl port of Lucene. As with much of the software produced by Kasei it is released as open source (In the past year Simon, Tony, Marty and Marc have released over 60 Perl modules).

Plucene-1.0

Plucene is a fully-featured and highly customizable search engine toolkit based on the Lucene API. (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene)

It is not, in and of itself, a functional search engine - you are expected to subclass and tie all the pieces together to suit your own needs. The synopsis above gives a rough indication of how to use the engine in simple cases. See Plucene::Simple for one example of tying it all together.