What's that ?

Lune is an explorator of Lucene index. It is similar to Luke, yes it is a sort of NIH syndrome. But as a user I find the eclipse-ish UI a lot more user friendly, and as a developer the Eclipse framework is a lot more powerful than Thinlet, the framework Luke is based on. As it is based on Eclipse, it could be integrated to your development environment, Lune being a perspective. On the other way if Eclipse is not one of your environment, Lune is available as a standalone application (only the required part of Eclipse will be embedded).

Where ?

I have made it hosted on SourceForge. It is the official page of the project, it would be interesting if other people get involved in it. The source can be retrieved from there, and any help will be appreciated.

Status

Lune is still under development, there is no release yet. But the basic index browsing feature are there. There is also the possibility to make Lune read index remotely over HTTP, but is has not been tested yet.

Another feature I developed when I was looking deeply into Lucene internals: from a file that define the format of the index, a UI was generated to browse the index internal field by internal field. It worked once, but I didn't touch to it again and then it get excluded from the Lune UI. I may reintegrate it one day.