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Lucene.Net

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users

Our Goals

• Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize with the Java Lucene release schedule
• Maintaining the high-performance requirements expected of a first class C# search engine library
• Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that takes advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime