I don't think query string parsers are the way to go. If I'm a user I don't want to learn another query syntax just because I want a "whole phrase" search or a simple AND. So any website that targets endusers (not something like JIRA) will have its own control boxes and dropdowns etc. on the search page. So what we could do is come up with something like I did for the wiki, a small framework that makes it easier to build such search masks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4075009#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...