: In short, whether you want to keep the handler is completely independent of : the lazy startup option.
I think Jack missread your question -- my interpretation is that you are asking about the pros/cons of removing 'startup="lazy"' ... : <requestHandler name="/update/extract" : startup="lazy"class="solr.extraction.ExtractingRequestHandler" > : : it startups it lazy. So what is pros and cons for removing it for my : situation? ...if you know you will definitely be using this handler, then you should probably remove startup="lazy" -- the advantages of using lazy request handlers is that there is no "init cost" for having them in your config if you never use them, making it handy for the example configs that many people copy and re-use w/o modifying so that they don't pay any price in having features declared that htey don't use. -Hoss
