Development of Search Engines using Lucene: An Experience

Lucene is a Java library which is able to perform the indexing and searching process. It allows the development of a text-based information retrieval systems or applications such as search engines. This paper intends to discuss the issues, and share the experience of using Lucene during course project development. Lucene is used by 28 second year students who are in the Information Science programs. They have to implement Lucene library in the Development of Search Engines (TP2433) course project. Results from the analysis have contributed in providing guidelines for future handling of the final TP2433 project.