On 4/23/2013 1:52 PM, Furkan KAMACI wrote:
Thanks for the answer. If I find something that explains using embedded
Jetty or Jetty, or Tomcat it would be nice.
2013/4/23 Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com>
Tomcat should work just fine in most cases. The downside to Tomcat is that
all of the devs generally run Jetty since it's the default. Also, all of
our units tests run against Jetty - in fact, a specific version of Jetty.
Usually, Solr will run fine in other webapps. Many, many users run Solr in
other webapps. All of our tests run against a specific version of Jetty
though. In some (generally rare) cases, that means something might work
with Jetty and not another container until/unless the issue is reported by
a user and fixed.
Mark outlines a really good reason to use Jetty - it's extremely well
tested. New tests are being added all the time, and most of those will
start Jetty to run.
If you don't already have a good reason to use a container other than
the Jetty included in Solr, then go and copy the example setup and
modify it until it does what you need. The one thing that's really
missing is an init script to manage Solr startup and shutdown. I plan
to do something about that, but I've got a lot of cleanup to do on it.
I've only come across one truly compelling reason to use something else:
If your system admins are already familiar with Tomcat, Glassfish, or
something else, then you probably want to stick with that. For
instance, you may have automation in place for deploying and managing
farms of Tomcat servers. Switching would likely be too painful.
There could be features useful for Solr in other containers that I don't
know about. If there are, and someone has a good reason for needing
those features, let us know about them. Update the wiki.
Jetty is a low-overhead servlet container without a lot of fancy
features. The Jetty instance that is included in the Solr example is a
bare-bones setup. It does not include all of the jars or config found
in a full Jetty download, because those features are not needed for Solr.
Thanks,
Shawn
