Snowball generates the java programs which the Java tarball will run, so my guess is that you will not need to download all of Snowball for your work. But I hope Richard (who did the java codegenerator and library support) will confirm this. I think all the info you need is in the 2 files http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/quickintro.html http://snowball.tartarus.org/q/use.html -- Martin