Grégoire, I believe the answers to your first 2 questions are both positive.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Grégoire Neuville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:38:50 AM > Subject: Federated Search > > 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 >
