A compilation of some of the basics of Lucene taken from multiple sources.

The various topics include:

- Types of Fields in Lucene Index
- Core Searching classes
- Score Boosting and relevance ranking
- Scoring Algorithm
- Sorting search results
- Handling multiple pages of search results
- Security
- Composition of Segments in Lucene Index
- Debugging lucene indexing process
- Lucene in Alfresco
- Caching
- Good articles on Lucene