Hi guys I got to overcome the above error caused because I was using diferent versions of the libraries: commons-lang and commons-beanutils
I introduced the libraries from apache-solr-3.1.0/example/lib/jsp-2.1 into the lib directory of apache and now I get another error <smiley image='smiley_uh.gif'/ at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.processUpdate(XMLLoader.java:147) at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:77) at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:55) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1360) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:356) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) <b>Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://api.opencalais.com/enlighten/calais.asmx/Enlighten at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1436) at org.apache.uima.annotator.calais.OpenCalaisAnnotator.callServiceOnText(OpenCalaisAnnotator.java:234) Any idea on this? Thanks!!!!!! pacopera...@hotmail.com -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-and-UIMA-issues-tp2984748p3006285.html Sent from the Lucene - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.