Is there a way of using Windows Indexer information in Java?

Question

I want to make a crawler-like program that searches a file system and indexes the files [It will have a later use, But that's the main thing i focus on now].

I wonder if there's a way of using the Windows Indexer [Which already have some kind of index] to my use instead of running through the files which can take quite a long time?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This might help...

I know its a link to another page... But not having enough reputaion so that i can comment, hence, giving it in answers area..

Done using Lucene

Hope it might help you...

Answer 2

According to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee805985(v=vs.85).aspx the windows indexing service is no longer supported and encourages anyone interested in carrying out client side search to use the Windows Search SDK https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965362(v=vs.85).aspx