On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:22:42 -0700 (PDT)
Raghav Kapoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am new to Solr and I am facing a question if solr can be helpful in a
> project that I'm working on.
welcome :)
> The project is a client/server app that requires a client app to index the
> documents and send the results in rdf to server.
> The client needs to be smart enough to know when a new document has been
> added to a specified folder, index it and send the results in rdf/xml to the
> server. The server will be a web service which will parse the xml and store
> the metadata in the a database. The search will be conducted on the server
> and will return the results from the database which will be links to the
> documents on the client.
Any particular reason why need the server in this situation? pretty much
everything you are doing can be done locally. Except, probably, cross linking
between client's documents. I have no idea in what kind of environment this app
is supposed to run (home? office LAN? the interweb :P ? ).
> The client , which is also running a webserver will take the request when the
> user clicks on the link to the document residing on the client.
you don't need a webserver for this, just generate a page in from your
webserver with file:// links and all you need is to render it locally.
> I believe lucene will be useful in this scenario and solr can be used as a
> web app.
> I would like to get any input on this architecture and would request any
> pointers if there is any app already doing something similar and how
> lucene/solr can be useful in this case.
there are plenty of desktop document indexers using lucene on some form or
another, and other indexing technologies. I dont know if any uses Solr - yet.
And i know of a few apps out there that do something similar to what you
describe though with different design as the goals are somewhat different.
B
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