Rating:  - Good book, does not matter
Book is well written, great examples, good in every respect except one.. It no longer matters.. Why even finish writing this book, they should start on one for the current version and give at least a free electronic copy to the people that bought this one.. We live in a fast paced world, I understand that.. The book is good, no doubt, but can we have one for the current version? Major classes are now deprecated, like HIT class.. Kind of defeats the purpose for having this book... The book is good, he did a great job, or is doing a great job, it is a work in progress.. but why continue, right?
Rating:  - Lucene best practices, distilled
Albeit outdated, 'Lucene in Action' remains a must read for anyone who's looking for a fast and scalable solution for a full-text indexing and search solution. Instead of stumbling through the API documentation all by yourself, the authors provide a high-level overview of the core components of the Lucene API, how to extend them, and best practices associated with each component.
For our application, we've adopted Solr, which abstracts the majority of Lucene API's, but the contents of this book have proven to be invaluable when it came to initial setup and quickly bringing our development team up to speed on the internals and best practices of Lucene.
Rating: - A must read if you're working with Lucene
This book is a MUST read if you're working with Lucene. While there is information on the internet about Lucene, I don't know how we can have succeeded on a project without this book. The authors know Lucene inside and out and every single page contains information that cannot be skimmed over.
Rating: - Must-read for anyone using Lucene
Lucene In Action is well-written and easy to understand. It provides in-depth coverage in key areas such as indexing (tokenizing) and retrieval. Definitely a must-read for anyone learning or working with Lucene.
Rating: - Not as useful as I hoped
Beware that this book is quite outdated by now: some of the APIs described in the book (e.g. "Field.Keyword") don't work anymore in recent versions of Lucene, lots of new stuff isn't covered, some information (such as that IndexWriter can't delete documents) is no longer true.
It's still useful as a "Getting Started" tutorial, because there's no such thing in Lucene's official documentation, but the price is a bit high for that.
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