Osma Suominen created JENA-1301:
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Summary: Drop Solr support from jena-text
Key: JENA-1301
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1301
Project: Apache Jena
Issue Type: Wish
Components: Text
Affects Versions: Jena 3.2.0
Reporter: Osma Suominen
Assignee: Osma Suominen
As discussed on the dev list, I propose dropping Solr support from jena-text.
Reasons:
# It is not evident how to run it from the documentation.
# There are no unit tests specific to Solr so whether it works cannot be easily
verified over time.
# It hasn't gained any of the features added to jena-text in recent years (e.g.
multilingual indexing, stored literal values, various special analyzers)
# The upgrade to Lucene 6 (JENA-1250) would probably break it further (since
Solr 4.9.1 that we use depends on Lucene 4.9.1), though due to reasons 1 and 2
above I can't tell.
# Elasticsearch support for jena-text is being developed by Anuj Kumar,
offering the same kind of external text index functionality that the Solr
support used to offer.
# It's not fun to look at (and in effect have to maintain) code that you don't
know if anyone is using or whether it's even working at all. I haven't heard
from any users of jena-text/Solr in a long time. The [most recent
exchange|http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.jena.user/3369] I could
find on the users list was in 2013, and it ended up unclear of whether the user
ever got it working. Okay there was [another
thread|http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.jena.user/8892] in April/May
2016 where Solr was apparently being used, but the discussion was about other
issues.
I volunteer to do the actual cleaning up if we get agreement on this.
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