We’ve been providing Lucene & Solr consultancy and training services for quite a few years now and it’s always interesting to see how these two technologies are perceived by different companies and their technical people. More precisely, I find it interesting how little Solr users know about Lucene and more so, how unaware they are […]
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 […]
Announcing Dutch 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]