anonymous wrote : This is could be a topic for a long discussion... Not so long maybe: there are no plans to support anything different than Lucene, for several good reasons, so at the moment the discussion doesn't even need to start in the tooling context. If you would like to discuss future Search development we should switch to the H.Search forum, I'm curious to hear about other tools: all decent solutions I've found are either DB coupled or based on Lucene. Also it should be noted that Lucene is not only very good but also very active and constantly improving: I doubt some other project could catch up to it in the short time, let alone doing better. anonymous wrote : In a general case - index search tool consist of index (analog of DB) for some documents/items, and query in a common case is just a string (Lucene generalize this, but in common case this is just a string) Lucene doesn't generalize at all, it's Search which makes conversions to and from the String world from the objects world. anonymous wrote : As I think it be useful for development if there are several indexes for different purposes - it could be a big index for production with milions of documents/items and several small one for different test corpora, it is possible to have situation, when there is a sense to have several indexes for a one project, etc. And it seems useful if be possible to view information about index, optimize index, enter search expresions with content assistance proposals. And use Eclipse/JBoss tools for this as a one environment for development. Is it answer the question or? yes that makes sense, but as "practical example" I was curious about how such a tool could be useful. Optimization can be done automatically in Search, just enable it in configuration or use it programmatically; the big feature would be to be able to look into the index, testing queries, testing analyzers, explaining queries. Would be nice to have content assistance in queries, but that is IMHO not a priority. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4203385#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...