For learning about the Perl port of Lucene, what are some good documents, resources, or books?
As people note on CPAN, the documentation is a little lacking. On Amazon all I find is Lucene and Java, but I understand the port is fairly good. Is buying a Java or Lucene book the best approach?
The Lucene Perl module is an interface (not a port) to the C++ port of Lucene (named CLucene), so any documentation you can find on Clucene should be helpful. Unfortunately the documentation for Clucene seems to be sparse. I would compare the Lucene docs with the Clucene docs and see how similar they are. If it looks good then I would use the Lucene docs and translate Java OO to Perl OO.
There is also a Perl port of Lucene known as Plucene, but I think it's been abandoned. Personally, I'd recommend KinoSearch - it's well documented and very easy to get going. It also has some shared roots in Lucene, which might be helpful, documentation-wise.