Hi John, I have had a read through the lucene website (http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html) and it sounds pretty good to me. I should be able to use this in conjuction with my JSP pages. This may sound quite dumb to anyone who develops in java, but I need a little help setting up the demo on my windowsXP machine. I have installed JDY 1.5.0_07, i have installed tomcat and can confirm that is is all up and running correctly, as I have already written a few simple JSP pages. I have downloaded the lucene package, extracted the package to my C:\ and followed the steps of the demo page: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/demo.html But, when i try to run "java org.apache.lucene.demo.IndexFiles c:\lucene-2.0.0\src" from the cmd prompt, I get the following error: "Exception in thread 'main' java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/lucene/analysis/Analyser" I am not sure why this is coming up. I have followed the instructions on the demo page on the web. The only thing i can think of is I may have my "CLASSPATH" incorrect. Can someone help me out with a basic desription if what the classpath is and where I should point the classpath environment variable to? Once I have that correct, i think that I may be able to run the demo. thanks for any help you can provide. James "John Sidney-Woollett" wrote: > Save yourself some effort and use Lucene to index a directory of your 300 > word documents. I'm pretty sure that Lucene includes an extension to read > Word documents, and you can use PDFBox to read/write PDF files. Marrying > the searching and displaying of results to your web application should be > trivial since you're wanting to use java anyway. Lucene has full character > set support and is blindingly fast > > If you're looking for a solution to this problem using Postgres, then > you'll be creating a ton extra work for yourself. If you're wanting to > learn more about postgres, then maybe it'll be worthwhile. > > John >
