Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

Jakarta Lucene is an open source project available for free download from Apache Jakarta. Please use the links on the left to access Lucene.

2 August 2004 - Lucene 1.4.1 Released

This fixes a few bugs in 1.4-final. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.

1 July 2004 - Lucene 1.4 Final Released

A new release of Lucene is available with many new features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.

The goal of the Apache Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions, based on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion.