: Sorry, I just realized I can use SolrIndexSearcher.search(Query, Hit)... : : that was my question basically.
I wouldn't recommend it ... those methods bypass all of the goodness Solr adds on top of of Lucene (caching, etc...) if you're writing plugin/embedded code where you have access to the SOlrIndexSearcher stick with the methods that return a DocList or DocSet (or DocListAndDocSet) .. you can still pass them Query objects, and you'll get all of the Solr goodness. -Hoss
