I was considering the programmatic Jetty option but then I read that Solr 5 no longer supports being run with an external servlet container but maybe they still support programmatic jetty use in some way. atm I am using solr 4.x, so this would work. No idea if this gets messy classloader-wise in any way.
I have been using exactly the approach you described in the past, i.e. I built a really, really simple swing dialogue to input queries and display results in a table but was just guessing that the built-in ui was far superior but maybe I should just live with it for the time being. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > It’d certainly be easiest to just embed Jetty into your application. You > don’t need to have Jetty as a separate process, you could launch it through > it’s friendly Java API, configured to use solr.war. > > If all you needed was to make HTTP(-like) queries to Solr instead of the > full admin UI, your application could stick to using EmbeddedSolrServer and > also provide a UI that takes in a Solr query string (or builds one up) and > then sends it to the embedded Solr and displays the result. > > Erik > > > On Jan 15, 2015, at 9:44 AM, Robert Krüger <krue...@lesspain.de> wrote: > > > > Hi Andrea, > > > > you are assuming correctly. It is a local, non-distributed index that is > > only accessed by the containing desktop application. Do you know if there > > is a possibility to run the Solr admin UI on top of an embedded instance > > somehow? > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > Robert > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Andrea Gazzarini <a.gazzar...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> Hi Robert, > >> I've used the EmbeddedSolrServer in a scenario like that and I never had > >> problems. > >> I assume you're talking about a standalone application, where the whole > >> index resides locally and you don't need any cluster / cloud / > distributed > >> feature. > >> > >> I think the usage of EmbeddedSolrServer is discouraged in a > (distributed) > >> service scenario, because it is a direct connection to a SolrCore > >> instance...but this is not a problem in the situation you described (as > far > >> as I know) > >> > >> Best, > >> Andrea > >> > >> > >> On 01/15/2015 03:10 PM, Robert Krüger wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I have been using an embedded instance of solr in my desktop > application > >>> for a long time and it works fine. At the time when I made that > decision > >>> (vs. firing up a solr web application within my swing application) I > got > >>> the impression embedded use is somewhat unsupported and I should expect > >>> problems. > >>> > >>> My first question is, is this still the case now (4 years later), that > >>> embedded solr is discouraged? > >>> > >>> The one limitation I am running into is that I cannot use the solr > admin > >>> UI > >>> for debugging purposes (mainly for running queries). Is there any other > >>> way > >>> to do this other than no longer using embedded solr and > programmatically > >>> firing up a web application (e.g. using jetty)? Should I do the latter > >>> anyway? > >>> > >>> Any insights/advice greatly appreciated. > >>> > >>> Best regards, > >>> > >>> Robert > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Robert Krüger > > Managing Partner > > Lesspain GmbH & Co. KG > > > > www.lesspain-software.com > > -- Robert Krüger Managing Partner Lesspain GmbH & Co. KG www.lesspain-software.com
