You can have multiple Java versions installed on the same system. Well, the same non-Windows system. Use the PATH environment variable to set the right Java for each application.
If you really, really must run Java 1.6 for everything, you will not be running Solr 5.x. I think the switch to require Java 7 was made at some point in the 4.x development. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Jan 7, 2016, at 7:26 PM, billnb...@gmail.com wrote: > > Run it on 2 separate boxes > > Bill Bell > Sent from mobile > > >> On Jan 7, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Aswath Srinivasan (TMS) >> <aswath.sriniva...@toyota.com> wrote: >> >> Hi fellow developers, >> >> I have a situation where the search front-end application is using java 1.6. >> Upgrading Java version is out of the question. >> >> Planning to use Solrcloud 5.x version for the search implementation. The >> show stopper here is, solrj for solrcloud needs atleast java1.7 >> >> What best can be done to use the latest version of solrcloud and solrj for a >> portal that runs on java 1.6? >> >> I was thinking, in solrj, instead of using zookeeper (which also acts as the >> load balancer) I can mention the exact replica's http://solr-cloud-HOST:PORT >> pairs using some kind of round-robin with some external load balancer. >> >> Any suggestion is highly appreciated. >> >> Aswath NS >>
