CFLucene

It's an Open Source project that attempts to provide developers an easy way to integrate the awesome indexing and searching functions of the Apache Lucene Java library with a ColdFusion web application. The CFLucene is a collection of ColdFusion Components that natively call the Lucene Java classes to index and search any sort of textual data.

The installation instructions have greater detail about this, but in short, you need the following:

• An installation of Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7.x. Development of CFLucene is done on the current product available at the time. It's probably not a good idea to try and use it with earlier versions of ColdFusion MX
• The Apache Lucene Java binary release. The current version at this time is version 1.4.3, released 29 November 2004.

The Verity software that is included with ColdFusion is very handy, however it's not flexible enough for my requirements.

But more importantly, Verity is not supported on Apple Mac OS X. I do software development on various Apple Macintosh systems; my production servers are all Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I wanted the same application code to run on both platforms, and use the minimum system resources.

No. It's not. I'm actively working on it to make improvements and resolve issues. It does work though, and I think it will work for others.

At the moment, it doesn't. That's something that needs attention. Consider it to have the same license as Model-Glue or Mach II. Those folks know what they're doing.

There isn't at the moment. If you'd like to contact me, send an e-mail to jlamoree@gmail.com.