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.

29 November 2004 - Lucene 1.4.3 Released

This fixes a few bugs in 1.4.2. 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.