Lucene Architecture
Architecture of Lucene has two parts Indexing Searching Document Handler and Response Visualizer are not present in Lucene so they are highlighted in a different color. Indexing Document Handler is the first block, functionality is to extract the content from different sources. It is not present in lucene Indexwriter will pass the text stream provided document handler to appropriate analyzer for analyzing the text. Analyzer accepts the text stream sent by analyzer and splits the text stream into tokens, send backs the token information to the analyzer, we will see an example in the following slides how the analyzer works. Indexwriter will generate an index based on the index's tokens and write indexes to the directory. Storage Directory is the storage location where index data resides physically. Searching Search Request is a place where user searches, request will originate here. QueryParser accepts the search...