Hello, I've recently developped a cocoon application that search and retrieve catalogue entries by passing requests to a solr, and then managing its responses. Quite classical so far. The next step of the project is to build another application that should be able to interrogate several others of the type of the former describe. This is where my questions arise :
- is Solr able to interrogate several Lucene indices ? - searching through the wiki or mailing lists for 'federated search' inevitably take me to the Distributed Search issue : as far as I've understood, the idea is here to break a unique Lucene index into multiple indices ; are those "sub-indices" stricly identical in terms of structure to a plain index ? (and thus, would the tools presently being developped to interrogate those sub-indices meet my needs ?) - browsing through the web came I accross an application called the Lucene Web Service : what do you think of it ? (its goal seems precisely to query multiple indices, it thus would be the thing I'm searching for ; but considering the scale of this project, I think I'd prefer to base my work on a project the long time activity of which is guaranted, such as Solr) Thanks in advance for your answers, -- Grégoire Neuville
