Performance wise, it would be best for your web services to communicate to Solr using SolrJ. I'm sure it would be better performance-wise than SOAP and you won't need to do anything custom with Solr. If you're using, Solr 1.3, you can have a *huge* performance boost by using the BinaryResponseParser in SolrJ.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Alexander Ramos Jardim < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik, > > Thanks for the comments. But they raised some doubts in my mind. > > What I need to do is to integrate Solr to an environment that communicates > via wsdl/SOAP. There will be lots of web services communicating to Solr. > Solr will be used like a web service, so I need to make possible for the > other side to send a wsdl based message to my web service, and my service > to > communicate with Solr. > > Expected message volume is 60.000 messages per hour, peaks of 100.000 > messages per hour. And it will scale in months. That's why I am trying to > figure the most performance wise way to things. > > I understood what you said about putting the SOAP at Solr. I agree. That's > not smart. > Now, I am thinking about the web service talking with an embedded Solr > server. > Is that you were talking about? > > > 2008/5/12 Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On May 12, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Alexander Ramos Jardim wrote: > > > > > Wouldn't you use a SoapRequestHandler? > > > > > > > First of all, *I* wouldn't really want to be caught coding up any kind > of > > client or server SOAP call to Solr. Seems mostly ridiculous to me when > > Solr's response is malleable to practically any kind of hash/array data > > structure format you want already. > > > > But no, I wouldn't build a request handler for SOAPifying Solr, I don't > > think. I'd go as simple as possible and use the Axis web stuff (last > time I > > did this stuff was ages ago, caveat) and talk to Solr's API - which > could be > > a call to a request handler internally. > > > > Would you use SolrJ to make the > > > wiring? > > > > > > > No. SolrJ is for Java -> Solr communications, and it does just fine > with > > out any SOAP in there at all. In fact, the latest incarnations do this > with > > serialized Java objects of some sort making the data smaller and faster > to > > process than XML. > > > > Or would you put the SOAP on the solr server side? > > > > > > > Only on the server-side, if you're a masochist. Otherwise, just use > Solr > > without SOAP and do something else with your free time :) > > > > Erik > > > > > > > -- > Alexander Ramos Jardim > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
