I index a large subset of technical support issues. Many of those issues contain exceptions. A simple example is this:


java.lang.OutOfMemoryError


The problem is that someone searching may search for just "OutOfMemoryError". What I found is that this will not return a document whose contents is actually "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError". At first I thought I could just make all queries wild card queries, but I came across this in the javadocs for WildcardQuery:

In order to prevent extremely slow WildcardQueries, a Wildcard term must not start with one of the wildcards * or ?.

Since my wildcard query would have to be "*OutOfMemoryError", that restriction breaks me.


I assume the solution is to write a tokenizer that breaks by the period "." I thought this already existed in the Standard Analyzer. Is there a simple solution to this problem? What would I need to do to the Analyzer to break the terms up by a period?


Thanks,

-Dave