As we discussed in the previous walk-through, the <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/demo/IndexFiles.html">IndexFiles</a></code> class creates a Lucene
The first substantial thing the <code>main</code> function does is instantiate <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.html">IndexWriter</a></code>. It passes the string
"<code>index</code>" and a new instance of a class called <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/analysis/standard/StandardAnalyzer.html">StandardAnalyzer</a></code>.
The "<code>index</code>" string is the name of the filesystem directory where all index information
should be stored. Because we're not passing a full path, this will be created as a subdirectory of
the current working directory (if it does not already exist). On some platforms, it may be created
in other directories (such as the user's home directory).
The <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.html">IndexWriter</a></code> is the main
class responsible for creating indices. To use it you must instantiate it with a path that it can
write the index into. If this path does not exist it will first create it. Otherwise it will
refresh the index at that path. You can also create an index using one of the subclasses of <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/store/Directory.html">Directory</a></code>. In any case, you must also pass an
instance of <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/analysis/Analyzer.html">org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer</a></code>.
The particular <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/analysis/Analyzer.html">Analyzer</a></code> we
are using, <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/analysis/standard/StandardAnalyzer.html">StandardAnalyzer</a></code>, is
little more than a standard Java Tokenizer, converting all strings to lowercase and filtering out
useless words and characters from the index. By useless words and characters I mean common language
words such as articles (a, an, the, etc.) and other strings that would be useless for searching
(e.g. <b>'s</b>) . It should be noted that there are different rules for every language, and you
should use the proper analyzer for each. Lucene currently provides Analyzers for a number of
different languages (see the <code>*Analyzer.java</code> sources under <ahref="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk/contrib/analyzers/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/">contrib/analyzers/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis</a>).
Looking further down in the file, you should see the <code>indexDocs()</code> code. This recursive
function simply crawls the directories and uses <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/demo/FileDocument.html">FileDocument</a></code> to create <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/document/Document.html">Document</a></code> objects. The <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/document/Document.html">Document</a></code> is simply a data object to
represent the content in the file as well as its creation time and location. These instances are
added to the <code>indexWriter</code>. Take a look inside <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/demo/FileDocument.html">FileDocument</a></code>. It's not particularly
complicated. It just adds fields to the <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/document/Document.html">Document</a></code>.
wish to examine the other samples in this directory, particularly the <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/demo/IndexHTML.html">IndexHTML</a></code> class. It is a bit more
The <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/demo/SearchFiles.html">SearchFiles</a></code> class is
quite simple. It primarily collaborates with an <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.html">IndexSearcher</a></code>, <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/analysis/standard/StandardAnalyzer.html">StandardAnalyzer</a></code>
(which is used in the <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/demo/IndexFiles.html">IndexFiles</a></code> class as well) and a
<code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/queryParser/QueryParser.html">QueryParser</a></code>. The
query parser is constructed with an analyzer used to interpret your query text in the same way the
documents are interpreted: finding the end of words and removing useless words like 'a', 'an' and
'the'. The <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.html">Query</a></code> object contains
the results from the <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/queryParser/QueryParser.html">QueryParser</a></code> which is passed to
the searcher. Note that it's also possible to programmatically construct a rich <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.html">Query</a></code> object without using the query
parser. The query parser just enables decoding the <ahref="queryparsersyntax.html">Lucene query
syntax</a> into the corresponding <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.html">Query</a></code> object. The searcher results are
returned in a collection of Documents called <code><ahref="api/org/apache/lucene/search/Hits.html">Hits</a></code> which is then iterated through and
