TwigKit is an easy-to-use toolkit that enables any web designer to quickly build full-featured search applications that look and feel great.
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We're passionate about search, and we like doing things well. To make things easier, we've poured our years of experience into TwigKit's comprehensive library of search design patterns including facets, breadcrumbs, query suggestions, pagination, search forms and result lists. Everything you need to build an industry-leading search application in one neat package.
TwigKit automatically produces valid, semantically consistent XHTML, carefully crafted for comprehensive CSS support out of the box (like targeting first, last, odd and even items, and individual fields and facets). It's also easy for you to use your own HTML—still leaving all the heavy lifting to TwigKit. Spend your time designing, not developing.
TwigKit is search engine agnostic. That means it's compatible with many enterprise search engines such as FAST ESP and Solr. But, more importantly, it means that you can change search engines without having to rewrite your application (or even use multiple engines at the same time). It's like having a friend that speaks 12 different languages.
TwigKit widgets encapsulate more complex features and patterns such as advanced search forms, tag clouds, charts, and analytics. You can even think of them as blue-prints (or starter kits) since you can hack them to do exactly what you want.
We also provide downloadable themes for search user interfaces. With TwigKit, the low-level search engine code, the page structure and the styling remain clearly separate, so everyone in your team can get on with their work without stepping on each others toes.
TwigKit provides complete support for JSP standard tags, expressions and scriptlets. It even plays nicely with Struts, Tiles and other frameworks.
And for those special requirements (like custom integration) you get the same clear, consistent and easy to use API we use to build TwigKit.
We'll even give you a head start on development with our application templates and archetypes. TwigKit is a 100% Java - fully 'mavenized' for reliable build and dependency management.
No more cryptic gobbledygook! Our wiki contains easy to read, step-by-step instructions, screenshots and code samples to support all the common user experience patterns.
This means our documentation is comprehensive, community led and always up to date.
We're passionate about search. This is what we do! We also know how frustrating software projects can be, so we make sure we listen and give you the best support we possibly can. To that end our issue tracking process is easy, open and transparent - get in touch via web, email, or phone and we'll get right on it.
Join us for the next Enterprise Search London meetup on February 4, 18:30.
