Lucene is a full-text information retrieval (IR) library written in the Java™ programming language. Now it's an open source project in the popular Apache Jakarta Project family. Discover how to implement advanced searching capabilities, and learn how to create a robust Web search application using Lucene.

In this article, you learn to implement advanced searches with Lucene, as well as how to build a sample Web search application that integrates with Lucene. The end result will be that you create your own Web search application with this open source work horse.

Filed in: Open Source

Forrester evaluated 13 leading open source software projects across approximately 40 criteria and found that six of the projects stand out as examples of excellence. The strongest Leaders are MySQL, Eclipse IDE, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, and PHP — thanks to their strong governance, well-defined road maps and release plans, and large and active communities. These six projects are followed closely in the Leaders category by Hibernate and Apache Velocity, the former because of its wide usage and strong support, and the latter because of its maturity and stability. Strong Performers are PostgreSQL and Spring Framework, both of which have capable leadership, active communities, and good presence in the market but don't have some of the benefits that a strong commercial supporter can provide.

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IBM Internet Technology Group team is looking for Open Source CMS products to design, develop, and deploy a closed community Web site. The team tries to cover the requirements, design, selection process for the Open Source CMS and provides details on some of the customizations the team made.

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Filed in: Open Source IBM

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server includes simple and straightforward tools that remove the complexity of migrating from a previous release to Version 6.1. This overview of the migration process will prepare you for what you need to do and what you can expect so that your migration can be as quick and easy as possible.

Filed in: WAS

This article provides an overview of new Web services features and enhancements in IBM® WebSphere® Application Server V6.1, including support for WS-Business Activity, WS-Notification, WS-I Basic Security Profile, and WS-Resource Framework specifications.

Filed in: WAS

IBM has announced the release of the WebSphere Portal V6. I had put in a sneak preview of the IBM WP V6 features here.

There is a new article on the developerWorks detailing the technical enhancements and the improvements to the WebSphere Portal V6. Check out the article here.

Filed in: WPS

Today, IBM has announced the acquisition of FileNet.The acquisition will allow IBM to further consolidate its offering in the ECM space, specially the high-volume transactional documents management systems. With this, IBM moves ahead of ECM and will have close to 18% share of the Document Management Market (as per IDC Research).

The acquisition leaves only Vignette, Broadvision, Stellent and Interwoven as pure play players in the market.

Keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for the next company to get gobbled up.

Filed in: IBM