If you are looking to learn SOLR, you can't go past this book: http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/book
Oh and you can access the SolrServer Java API from with CF - it's in there, although you will probably have to get your own connection. Mark On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Barry Chesterman <barrychester...@gmail.com>wrote: > the built in CF tags for using SOLR are not that nice, they are fine for > basic stuff but if you really want to use SOLR as it was intended you > really have to query it directly (it's just an HTTP request and then XML > parsing from there). > The coldfusion tags for querying SOLR lack a lot of options and it doesn't > let you specify specific properties. > The other downside about SOLR is the sad documentation (although it's not > as sad as verity documentation, lol) > > I've used both and I found SOLR much more powerful and useful but it > wasn't as easy to learn. > > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've done a fair amount of standalone SOLR work, and it's pretty awesome. >> TBH I've never gone near the integrated version, as using it standalone has >> so much more to it than what is exposed by CF. >> >> Mark >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Mark Picker >> <mark.pic...@det.nsw.edu.au>wrote: >> >>> Hi Steve, >>> >>> I had a similar issue when using type="Internet" which would return >>> "Error executing query: unknown_handler_internet". I was pointed to >>> this on the Adobe bug tracker: >>> http://cfbugs.adobe.com/cfbugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=79649 >>> >>> I'm not liking SOLR all that much. I'm finding that Verity was much >>> smarter in the way it built the summary (not to mention SOLR creates a >>> much shorter summary). Whenever someone mentions how good SOLR is >>> over Verity it seems that they are always using their own install of >>> SOLR and not the built in one.....or at least not using the CF tags to >>> index and search. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Mark >>> >>> On Feb 7, 2:42 pm, "Steve Onnis" <st...@cfcentral.com.au> wrote: >>> > Has anyone seen this error? >>> > >>> > Error executing query : unknown_handler_natural >>> > >>> > It is a Solr collection. The collection created fine but i cant search >>> it. >>> > >>> > Steve >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "cfaussie" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> E: mark.man...@gmail.com >> T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic >> W: www.compoundtheory.com >> >> 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast >> http://www.2ddu.com/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "cfaussie" group. >> To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > -- E: mark.man...@gmail.com T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic W: www.compoundtheory.com 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast http://www.2ddu.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
