Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

Jakarta Lucene is an open source project available for free download from Apache Jakarta. Please use the links on the left to access Lucene.

26 December 2003 - Lucene 1.3 Final Released

A new release of is available with many new features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.

The goal of the Apache Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions, based on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion.