Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Gnanam
Thanks Alex for the response. Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote > What features are you planning to use from SolrJ client? Because you can > always just talk to Solr server directly with HTTP query URLs and JSON > results. Because SolrJ is a Java client, we've chosen that as the default client that wi

Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
HTTPClient is probably what you are looking for: http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/ . It used to be very popular. Notice that it is deprecated, but the replacement requires JDK 1.5. This old one, I think, should work with older JDKs. Then, you will need either XML or JSON parser for the results

Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 1/7/2014 10:19 PM, Gnanam wrote: > Shawn Heisey-4 wrote >> Although SolrJ is a standalone component, it is also an integral part of >> Solr itself, so it has the same Java requirement as Solr. It is highly >> unlikely that it will work at all with a 1.3.x Java version. > > Thanks Shawn. So wh

Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Gnanam
Chris Hostetter-3 wrote > Your best bet is probably to ignore SolrJ -- just pick an HTTP library and > an XML serialiation library that you are familiar with and know will run > in your client app and use them to talk to Solr with some custom code to > format your docs in XML for indexing and pa

Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Walter Underwood
Doesn't 1.3 have Y2K problems? I thought we got rid of that ancient stuff a decade ago. Nothing supports 1.3. You get to use old, unsupported versions of everything. With tons of security holes. wunder On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:19 PM, Gnanam wrote: > Shawn Heisey-4 wrote >> Although SolrJ is a st

Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Gnanam
Shawn Heisey-4 wrote > Although SolrJ is a standalone component, it is also an integral part of > Solr itself, so it has the same Java requirement as Solr. It is highly > unlikely that it will work at all with a 1.3.x Java version. Thanks Shawn. So which version of Solr supports JDK 1.3? Or any

Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
What features are you planning to use from SolrJ client? Because you can always just talk to Solr server directly with HTTP query URLs and JSON results. Do you need to support multiple Solr servers? Do you want bean mapping? Something else? Regards, Alex. Personal website: http://www.outerthou

Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Hostetter
: > Currently our application is running on BroadVision server which is actually : > based on very older version of JDK that is v1.3. Now we've a requirement ... : > and the client library (SolrJ) running behind a lower version (JDK 1.3), : > since the client API will be invoked/used from

Re: Server vs Client - JDK compatibility

2014-01-07 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 1/7/2014 7:30 AM, Gnanam wrote: > Currently our application is running on BroadVision server which is actually > based on very older version of JDK that is v1.3. Now we've a requirement > for searching documents and we want to integrate Apache Solr within our > application. We have also decide