Plucene is a fully-featured and highly customizable search engine toolkit based on the Lucene API. It is not, in and of itself, a functional search engine - you are expected to subclass and tie all the pieces together to suit your own needs. The synopsis above gives a rough indication of how to use the engine in simple cases. See Plucene::Simple in the distribution for one example of tying it all together. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Plucene/ WWW: http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene