: Curious...why was this feature removed? it hasn't been removed, it still ships with the solr releases as a contrib jar the same way it always did.
what changed is that in the past it was mistakenly/foolishly/inexplicable also included in the solr.war -- even though it didn't need to be. This is loudly noted in the upgrading section of CHANGES.txt so people who were using it in previous releases and expected to it be embeded in the solr.war will have notice that they should update their configuration to include it as a plugin... https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_3x/solr/CHANGES.txt?r1=1071480&r2=1072131 ...for people starting with the 3.x or 4.x example-DIH config files, they already include the neccessary <lib/> declaration. -Hoss
