Re: Solr faceted search UI

You also get some smooth UI stuff "for free" F On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Fergus McDowall wrote: > Hi Richa > > Solrstrap is probably the best way to go if you just want to get up a PoC > as fast as possible. Solrstrap requires no installation of middleware, you > just add in the address

Re: Solr faceted search UI

Hi Richa Solrstrap is probably the best way to go if you just want to get up a PoC as fast as possible. Solrstrap requires no installation of middleware, you just add in the address of your solr server and open the file in your browser. Regards Fergus On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:23 PM, richa wr

Re: Solr faceted search UI

Hi Rocha, In your webapp I guess you have at list a view and a service layers. The indexing and search modules should preferably be hosted at the service layer. I recommend you read the Api doc ( http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_2_1/solr-solrj/index.html) to get a sense of what you can do with SolrJ

Re: Solr faceted search UI

Hi Maj, Thanks for your suggestion. Tell me one thing, do you have any example on solrj? suppose I decide to use solrj in simple web application, to display faceted search on web page. Where will this fit into? what will be the flow? Please suggest. Thanks On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Maj

Re: Solr faceted search UI

I tried previous version of blacklight (on a Mac) and was able to get it to the demo stage without much RoR knowledge. The facet field declarations were all in the config files. You should be able to get a go/nogo decision in under four hours. Regards, Alex. Personal blog: http://blog.outerthou

Re: Solr faceted search UI

Thank you very much for your suggestion. This is only for PoC. As you suggested about blacklight, can I run this on windows and to build PoC do I have to have ruby on rails knowledge? Irrespective of any technology and considering the fact that in past I had worked on java, j2ee what would you su

Re: Solr faceted search UI

Hi richa, You can use solrJ (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solrj#Reading_Data_from_Solr) to query your solr index. On the wiki page indicated, you will see example of faceted search using solrJ. 2009 article by Yonik available on searchhub is

Re: Solr faceted search UI

It's a pretty subjective and opinionated kinda thing here, as UIs are built with all sorts of technologies and even though I'm quite opinionated about how *I* would build something I work with a lot of folks that have their own preferences or organizational standards/constraints on what they can