Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-07 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jan 5, 2007, at 1:59 AM, Chris Hostetter wrote: : The issue is best described with an example: : search for canon - matches multiple categories, which will have very : different schemas : http://cnet.search.com/search? chkpt=astg.cnet.fd.search.cnet&q=canon&tag=srch I just so happen to h

Re: Handling disparate data sources in Solr

2007-01-07 Thread Erik Hatcher
The idea of having Solr handle various document types is a good one, for sure. I'm not sure what specifics would need to be implemented, but I at least wanted to reply and say its a good idea! Care has to be taken when passing a URL to Solr for it to go fetch, though. There are a lot of c

Re: Multiple indexes

2007-01-07 Thread Chris Hostetter
I don't know if there really are any general purpose best practices ... it really depends on use cases -- the main motivation for allowing JNDI context specification of the solr.home location so that multiple instances of SOlr can run in a single instace of a servlet container was so that if you *

[ANN] Apache Forrest/Cocoon based solr client plugin

2007-01-07 Thread Thorsten Scherler
Hi all, I am happy to announce that I just add a Apache Forrest based Apache Solr client plugin to the forrest whiteboard. It may be from interest for the ones using Apache Cocoon based Apache Forrest and Apache Lucene based Apache Solr. org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.solr generates Apache Solr