Whenever you start doing real-world stuff with Lucene you find yourself hacking and extending. That's the beauty of Lucene - it has so many extension points, and you can write almost every part of it from scratch to match your requirements. Lately I've been working on some stuff relating to both Rav...

BzReader (http://code.google.com/p/bzreader/) is a simple utility which allows browsing dump files downloaded from Wikipedia. Once downloaded, BzReader will go through all pages and articles in the dump file and index their titles. Using BzReader, it is easy to browse and search Wikipedia for specif...