Alternativa a Lucene: Java Search Engine

Java Search Engine se presenta como una alternativa bastante interesante a Jakarta Lucene. Bajo estas líneas podéis encontrar la lista de características extraida directamente de su página web:

• Full featured text search engine software for web sites



• Supports any operating system, completely in Java



• Includes web crawler



• It is FREE



• Complete solution, no additional software required



• Available as WAR (Web ARchive), servlet, JSP for Tomcat, Resin or other JSP engine



• Simple installation using web interface



• Available as EJB (Enterprise JavaBean) on J2EE Application Server



• HTML, PDF and plain text indexing



• Available as Java API library



• Supports incremental update, "hot update" and "hot rescan" (without stopping search), delete pages



• International encodings support, multiply encodings in one storage, automatic detection



• Stopwords and word stemming (suffixes stripping) for every configured language



• Using file system or database (JDBC) for index storage



• Supports META tags (description and keywords), image ALT tags, BASIC Authentication and forms crawling



• Can store several separated sites in one index, even multilingual



• Can group pages and limit search results to some group



• Customizable page rank with options to boost on word position, number of appearances or by URL



• Google style output, quotations with highlighted words, or you can use META tags to customize description



• Google query language, includes AND, OR, "-", phrase, substrings and all possible combinations



• Can transform results directly into XML, or HTML using XSLT

Quizás los aspectos más interesantes sean que soporta extracción de PDF, HTML y TXT sin tener que crear ningún tipo de plugin, que está disponible como un EJB y que puede pasar los resultados a XML.



¿ Qué os parece ? ¿ superior a lucene ?