FYI, here's what I think is a very nice quality-of-life dev improvement I worked on 4 days ago to build & run Solr straight from a gradle task; even debug as well just as easily. https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/3816 I use something very close to this at work. Feedback welcome. I'll probably merge Monday.
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
