: handler by name) in the solrconfig.xml file, or does this require me to : write a custom RequestHandler in java to perform this?
it would be a custom java class that you could load at runtime by putting in the "lib" directory and refering to it in your solrconfig.xml (ie: no modifications neccessary to the war) ... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPlugins -Hoss