Does Zend Lucene need Java Lucene?

Question

When implementing Zend Lucene, do we need to install Java on our server or not?

Answer 1

Although I have not used it, it appears that you do not need Java to use the Zend_Search_Lucene component. According to the documentation, Zend_Search_Lucene is a fully PHP implementation of Lucene.

However, there is support for interoperability between the Java indexes and the PHP indexes.