Hi Eli, The author of the blog post you mentioned appears to be unaware of the Maven POMs that are already included in Subversion for both Lucene and Solr. See <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute#Maven>.
Because of the complex nature of the Ant build, which the Maven POMs cannot entirely duplicate, these POMs are not usable as the basis for IDE project bootstrapping. Instead, IntelliJ and Eclipse configurations are separately available: see <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute#IntelliJ_.289.0.X.2C_10.X.2C_and_11.X.29> and <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute#Eclipse>. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Eli Finkelshteyn [mailto:iefin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:31 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Moving to Maven from Ant solr.build.dir Not Found Hi Folks, I've been tasked with moving a Solr project I know little about from Ant to Maven. I've found all the dependencies I need and I'm not seeing any errors in my IDE. Everything compiles and installs just fine. Problem is, when I try to start things up in Jetty, I get errors. The first main one I get is: SEVERE: null:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: No system property or default value specified for solr.build.dir value:${solr.build.dir}/ I have: <properties> <build-directory>../build/solr-maven</build-directory> </properties> in my pom.xml, so I'm not sure why this comes up. Anyway, it's quickly followed by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrUpdateServlet I'm not sure if the two are related, but when googling I can't seem to find anyone with the same problem. For reference, I started the bulk of my move from ant to maven using the instructions here <http://uomesh.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-solr-as-maven-project.html>, and then extrapolated from that to add in custom code and dependencies for my project. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? Thanks for any help, Eli
