Lucene is a high-performance, scalable information retrieval (IR) library. IR refers to the process of searching for documents, information within documents, or metadata about documents. Lucene lets you add searching capabilities to your applications. It’s a mature, free, open source project implemented in Java, and a project in the Apache Software Foundation, licensed under the liberal Apache Software License. The explosion of the internet and digital repositories has brought large amounts of information within our reach. With time, the amount of data available has become so vast that we need alternate, more dynamic ways of finding information.The need to quickly locate certain information out of the sea of data isn’t limited to the internet realm—desktop computers store increasingly more data on multi-terabyte hard drives. Now lets take an example directly to getting started with Lucene: package com.dev.kunal.lucenesimple.starter; import java.io.IOException; import...