Ok, thanks a lot for your answer. I'm going to investigate that way (Distributed Search) though after reading this (http://www.nabble.com/Multiple-Search-in-Solr-td15268564.html), I'll keep in mind the possibility of 'tweaking' Solr with the LuceneWebService as an inspiration tool ; I've also been told that using the Solr MultiCore system could be a possibility. I'll try and see, so.
Thanks again, Grégoire Neuville. 2008/2/29, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > > > > -- Grégoire Neuville
