3. Consultant with Sourcesense, specialising in search and operational technologies

4. A member of the Apache Software Foundation

6. Business Intelligence

7. Content Management

10. Hibernate Search – committer

11. Lucene Infinispan integration – lead developer

13. Apache Jackrabbit – contributor

14. JBoss GateIn Portal – committer

15. OpenSSO-Alfresco - contributor

17. Provides free text search facilities

18. Started in 2000, by Doug Cutting

19. A project of the Apache Software Foundation

20. It is designed to be embedded in Java apps

22. Wraps Lucene with a RESTful web interface

23. Provides configurable schema

24. Provides replication functionality

27. Latest Apache Solr, currently 3.3

28. http://www.sourcesense.com/dev8d-solr.zip

31. cd into the example directory

33. Unpack your dev8d-solr.zip file

34. At another command prompt, cd into your dev8d-solr directory

36. You should see the Solr admin page.

37. Click statistics link

38. You'll see NumDocs: 0

39. There's nothing in the index, so searches won't show much

40. So we need to index some sample content

42. Java -jar post.jar wikipedia-basic.xml

69. Nothing there.

70. Edit 'text' field in schema.xml, changing it to stored=”true”

77. Load wikipedia-enhanced.xml into a text editor or browser

78. Load example/solr/conf/schema.xml into a text editor

80. Equivalent to your database schema in a RDBMS

83. <field name=&quot;source&quot; type=&quot;string&quot; indexed=&quot;true&quot; stored=&quot;true&quot; multiValued=&quot;false&quot;/>

84. <field name=&quot;text_general&quot; type=&quot;text_general&quot; indexed=&quot;true&quot; stored=&quot;true&quot; multiValued=&quot;true&quot;/>

85. Now search for the “text_general” field type definition, further up in the file.

87. <copyField source=&quot;text&quot; dest=&quot;text_general&quot;/>

89. java -jar start.jar

91. java -jar post.jar wikipedia-enhanced.xml

97. Index optimisation: <optimize/>

99. Seen it before!

100. Let's look through it in more detail...

102. Specific to a Solr 'core', as is schema.xml

103. In same directory as schema.xml

104. Let's look through it in more detail...

107. Data Import Handler (DIH)

108. XSLTUpdateRequestHandler (Solr 3.4)

110. An index, not a data store: keep ability to re-index

111. Don't make Solr do things you wouldn't have MySQL do

113. So use a firewall

117. Too much traffic: replicated search

118. How much is too much: unanswerable!