: Can someone please explain what the inform method should accomplish? Thanks
whatever you want it to acomplish ... it's just a hook that (some types of) plugins can use to finish their initialize themselves after init() has been called on the SolrCore and all of the other plugins. (it's a two stage initialization process: for example: a RequestHandler can't get a list of all other RequestHandlers in it's init() method, because they might not have been constructed yet -- but when it's inform() method is called, they have all been construced and init()ed. -Hoss
