Fess is Java based full text search server provided as OSS product. You can install and run Fess quickly on any platforms, which have Java runtime environment. Fess is provided under Apache license.
-Fess is built on Seasar2 framework, and contains Apache Solr. A crawler used by Fess is S2Robot, which can crawl documents on Web/Local File System and support many file formats, such as MS Office, pdf and zip.
+Fess is very easily deployable and powerful Enterprise Search Server. You can install and run Fess quickly on any platforms, which have Java runtime environment. Fess is provided under Apache license.
+Fess is Solr based search server, but knowledge/experience about Solr is NOT needed. Fess provides Administration GUI feature to configure the system on your browser. A crawler used by Fess is S2Robot, which can crawl documents on Web/Local File System and support many file formats, such as MS Office, pdf and zip.