Re: possible FAQ - lucene interop

2007-01-17 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Thanks - that helps, and ideally should help with adoption questions here. : You said "most cases" - I've read something about "solr extends lucene" in : the docs. Are there some specific solr-only bits of functionality that : would preclude vanilla-lucene code from accessing solr-created index

Re: possible FAQ - lucene interop

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Kimsal
Thanks - that helps, and ideally should help with adoption questions here. You said "most cases" - I've read something about "solr extends lucene" in the docs. Are there some specific solr-only bits of functionality that would preclude vanilla-lucene code from accessing solr-created indexes? On

Re: possible FAQ - lucene interop

2007-01-17 Thread Tricia Williams
Hi Michael, What Solr is really doing is building a Lucene index. In most cases a Java developer should be able to access the index that Solr built through the IndexReader/IndexSearcher classes and the location of the index that Solr built. See the Lucene API for details on these and othe

possible FAQ - lucene interop

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Kimsal
Hello all: We've got one java-based project at work using lucene. I'm looking to use solr as a search system for some other projects at work. Once data is indexed in solr, can we get at it using standard lucene libraries? I know how I want to use solr, but if the java devs need to get at the d