Trying to add some information about core.properties and auto-discovery in Solr in Action and am at a loss for what to tell the reader is the purpose of this feature.
Can anyone point me to any background information about core auto-discovery? I'm not interested in the technical implementation details. Mainly I'm trying to understand the motivation behind having this feature as it seems unnecessary with the Core Admin API. Best I can tell is it removes a manual step of firing off a call to the Core Admin API or loading a core from the Admin UI. If that's it and I'm overthinking it, then cool but was expecting more of an "ah-ha" moment with this feature ;-) Any insights you can share are appreciated. Thanks. Tim
