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First Dutch Lucene User Group Meetup

January 20th, 2010 by Uri Boness
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2010/01/20/first-dutch-lucene-user-group-meetup/)

August last year, we announced the new Dutch Lucene User Group with the intention to provide a platform for knowledge sharing and discussions for the Lucene community in The Netherlands. Obviously, beyond setting up a dedicated website for that, the main activity of this usergroup should be in the form of periodic meetups. Unfortunately it didn’t work out to execute it last year, but this year we would really like to get it going and put more efforts in it, and first step I guess is setting up a first meetup.

So I’m pleased to announce the first Dutch Lucene User Group Meetup. It will take place on 17th February (Wednesday) at the JTeam headquarters office. This first meetup will be split into two parts:

  • Introduction to the user group and the members. We’ll have a discussion about what we would all like to see coming out of this user group and what activities we would like to have.
  • The next part will be more technical. Anne Veling will share with us some of his experience of large scale Solr deployment that he’s working on.

If you wish to attend, please send us an email to: events@lucene-nl.org

Date: 17th February 2010

Time: 17:00
Location:
Frederiksplein 1
1017XK Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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Announcing Dutch Lucene User Group

August 26th, 2009 by Uri Boness
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/08/26/announcing_lucene_user_group/)

In the last 3 years we’ve witnessed the rise of open source enterprise search. Of course it was always there, and Apache Lucene in particular was there since, well… the previous century. But in the last 3 years the interest in this area has grown dramatically and the install/user base of the different Lucene related projects (Lucene Java and Solr in particular) has grown at an amazing rate. Today, the Lucene ecosystem is booming – there’s a high demand for expertise in this field, yet still there is relatively low supply. The Lucene / Solr mailing lists are flooded with hundreds of questions each week and the need to share knowledge is evident.

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Bean Validation: Integrating JSR-303 with Spring

August 4th, 2009 by Uri Boness
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/08/04/bean-validation-integrating-jsr-303-with-spring/)

I recently had a chance to actually use the new Bean Validation spec. in one of my projects. As the developer of the Bean Validation Framework for Spring (part of the springmodules project) it of course feels a bit weird to ditch all the work I’ve done, but at the same time, it also feels good to use a standard spec that very soon will be finalized. As a member of the JSR-303 expert group (although quite a quiet member) I can assure you that the guys (special kudo’s to Emmanuel Bernard) worked really hard to come up with a specification that will fit in many of the different programming models and technologies we all use (e.g. JPA, JSF, Swing, etc..). In this writing, I’d like to show you a how you can integrate Bean Validation in your Spring based application, especially  if you’re using Spring MVC. Please note, that Spring 3.0 promises to bring such support out of the box, but the last time I checked, it wasn’t implemented yet, and besides, if you’re using Spring 2.x you may find this useful as well.

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Enterprise Search: Introduction to Solr

July 22nd, 2009 by Uri Boness
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/07/22/enterprise-search-introduction-to-solr/)

From day one, we at JTeam were very much occupied with pushing new revolutionary open source technologies that can bring real value to us and to our customers. We were there when Spring just started and we helped making it what it is today. We were one of the first companies to use Hibernate in real world projects (I reckon the first version we used was 0.4), and contributed to (back then) innovative new front end technologies like Ajax and DWR. With time, these technologies became mainstream and for a while it seemed that they just fulfilled every bit of our needs where JEE development is  concerned. Yet something was still missing. About 3 years ago, we started noticing a new and growing trend in the market – a new demand – demand for search. Customers started paying more attention to the “findability” aspect in their offerings, be it an e-commerce website offering faceted navigation to its users, or proprietary search solutions on top large service management systems. The trend was obvious, the demand was there, and we had to deliver. We started by implementing our own custom solutions based on the brilliant Lucene library, but then came Solr and once again revolutionized our JEE development.

My goal in this post is to introduce you to Solr. Not too fancy, but to give you just a taste and enough information to at least get started with it. In future posts, I hope to expand on this and show you how you can leverage some of Solr’s features to implement some really cool stuff.
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