Shalin, thank you for the clarification. Philip, I just realized that I have diverted the original topic of the thread. My apologies.
Regards Rahul On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Rahul R <rahul.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > *The SolrServer is initialized to the server to which you want to send > the > > request. It has nothing to do with distributed search by itself.* > > > > But isn't the request sent to all the shards ? We set all the shard urls > in > > the 'shards' parameter of our HttpRequest.Or is it something like the > > request is first sent to the server (with which SolrServer is > initialized) > > and from there it is sent to all the other shards ? > > > > The request is sent to the server with which SolrServer is initialized. > That > server makes use of the shards parameter, queries other servers, merges the > responses and sends it back to the client. > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. >