Lucene 4 Cookbook provides a comprehensive guide for developers looking to integrate Apache Lucene into their search applications. With over 70 hands-on recipes, this book takes you from the basics to advanced topics, enabling you to create effective and high-performing search solutions. What this Book will help me do Learn how to configure Lucene for optimal indexing and searching. Gain skills in analyzing text and implementing custom analyzers. Discover techniques for implementing near real-time search capabilities. Understand how to scale your search application to handle large datasets. Explore modular extensions to enhance and customize your search application. Author(s) Edwood Ng and Vineeth Mohan are seasoned developers with extensive experience in search technologies and open-source projects. Their practical experience with Apache Lucene is reflected in this cookbook, which focuses on real-world applications and challenges. They have a clear, engaging writing style that makes complex concepts accessible to developers. Who is it for? This book is for professional and aspiring software developers who are new to Apache Lucene but eager to explore its full capabilities. It assumes some working knowledge of Java programming, so readers should at least be familiar with basic programming concepts. It's ideal for those looking to add search functionalities to their applications effectively and efficiently.