Lucene: Better Searching Through Java

This site will be the home of Jakarta Lucene. The product is still being transferred. For now, the home of the Lucene project is still at SourceForge. See www.lucene.com for those links.

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

Lucene Joins Jakarta - The Lucene Team is happy to announce that Lucene is now part of a member 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 that are developed in an open and cooperative fashion.