: wrong--this is a good place to look if they are available). However, : there isn't too much of Solr which would be difficult for an : experienced java programmer to master. The "guts" of Solr is the : Lucene search engine, and experience building lucene-based search : solutions would be directly applicable to Solr. I've certainly seen : this skill listed on CVs.
Right, if you're looking for someone to help you write RequestHandler plugins, or make improvements to core Solr code, fiding consultants with a good Lucene background is a good starting point .. the underlying concepts will already make sense to them, they just may not be familiar with the Solr abstractions on top of them. The Lucene Java wiki has a list of parties for hire you might wnat to start with... http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/Support -Hoss
