Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine 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.

Lucene v1.2-RC5 release - This release is the latest release from the Lucene team. Download it here.

Lucene v1.02 released - This release repackages Lucene as a product of the Apache Software Foundation. Download it here.

Lucene Joins Jakarta - The Lucene Team is happy to announce that Lucene is now a part of the Apache Jakarta Project. This move will help Lucene continue to grow, and enhance its position as the leading server-side searching solution for Java.

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.