: 1. how to attach my own stylesheet to the output? You can use the XSLTResponseWriter to get Solr to apply an XSLT before writing hte response to the client...
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/XsltResponseWriter ...alternately there is a "stylesheet" param that can be used with the XMLResponseWriter that just causes it to include a stylesheet instruction in the response XML so the client can process it -- but it's fairly useless at the moment (it requires you to include your own stylesheet in the Solr WAR file or to configure some creative path mapping in your servlet container) : 2. how the Solr do the update? What kind of update I can ask Solr to do? That's a pretty vague question ... have you read the tutorial? have skimmed the main page of the Solr wiki -- particularly the section on "Indexing Documents"? http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ -Hoss