RiverGlass Unveils Open Source Web and File System for Lucene Developer Community

RiverGlass announced the availability of RiverGlass EssentialScanner, an Open Source Web and file systems scanner to the Lucene developer community under the GNU Lesser General Public License, LGPL. This offering will be complementing Apache Lucene capabilities.

 

RiverGlass specializes in intelligent search, collection and analysis solutions. The company commercializes grant-funded research undertaken by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications –NCSA – at the University of Illinois.

 

The company provides application solutions to government agencies and command in defense, intelligence agencies, law enforcement and major corporations.

 

The EssentialScanner tool is expected to help developers by providing robust and cost-effective scanner capabilities which is easy to deploy also. It will form part of a larger enterprise search solution they are building and it includes information collection covering internal repositories and file systems besides the Internet, said official sources.

 

“RiverGlass EssentialScanner is the same technology base upon which we build our intelligent search solutions currently in use at numerous government agencies and corporations. We are excited to make our scanner technology available to the Open Source community and hope our extensive experience working with Lucene will benefit others. We also look forward to a lively, productive interaction with that developer group,” said Doug Marquis, RiverGlass VP of Product Development.

 

RiverGlass EssentialScanner users can avail of the technical support programs for direct access to RiverGlass’ Lucene experts. This will help resolve problems developers may have while building the project what ever stage it is in for ensuring effective and efficient software development, explained company sources.

 

Users can also license advanced analytics for building more powerful search solutions. They can also add more capabilities to the RiverGlass EssentialScanner by selecting features from the bundled packages included. Features may include context driven page ranking, conceptual search and entity extraction.

 

The company added that complete specifications and the RiverGlass EssentialScanner with associated information on support programs are available for download from the company Web site.