Re: Testing the limits of non-Java Solr

2011-05-06 Thread Erick Erickson
You've hit it right on the head... if you can use the standard analyzers/filters/etc, you're in good shape. You have to process the output (xml, json, whatever) as Otis says, but that's in whatever language your app server uses. But when was the last time you were motivated to write a blog post l

Re: Testing the limits of non-Java Solr

2011-05-05 Thread William Bell
Yeah you don't need Java to use Solr. PHP, Curl, Python, HTTP Request APIs all work fine. The purpose of Solr is to wrap Lucene into a REST-like API that anyone can call using HTTP. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > Short answer: Yes, you can deploy a Solr cluster and w

Re: Testing the limits of non-Java Solr

2011-05-05 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Short answer: Yes, you can deploy a Solr cluster and write an application that talks to it without writing any Java (but it may be PHP or Python or unless that application is you typing telnet my-solr-server 8983 ) Otis Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucen