On 5/22/2015 12:46 AM, TK Solr wrote: > > On 5/21/15, 5:26 AM, Steven White wrote: >> Hi TK, >> >> Can you share the thread you found on this WAR topic? >> > Steve, > Actually, that was my mistake. I still don't know why WARs are bad. > > In the thread "Solr 5.0, Jetty and WAR", which you started and are > familiar with, > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/WhyNoWar > was mentioned. So I thought that's it! > But it turned out this wiki page was a blank page.
I just created that page two days ago, but I have not had any time to work on it. It's not that WARs are bad ... they come with too many limitations on what the programmer can get the program to do. When you are writing code to create a comprehensive website, a WAR is an awesome vehicle ... but for a search server, especially one that runs within a larger cluster of servers, the WAR is very limiting. Here is an email message on the dev list archive that covers some of the reasons for going to a standalone application: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-dev/201305.mbox/%3c807476c6-e4c3-4e7e-9f67-2becb6399...@gmail.com%3E This message is what will serve as a starting point for the WhyNoWar wiki page. Thanks, Shawn
