I'd rather integrate Spring. But you've heard me on this subject on Solr before.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Grant Ingersoll<[email protected]> wrote: > We are starting to get a couple of places where users can insert their own > custom implementations. Recommenders, Weight calculators (new today) and > some other areas are all prime examples. Currently, it is likely the case > that one has to do the whole un-jar/un-war dance in order to add their stuff > in. > > Solr had this problem and solved it through a custom class loader and the > Solr Home capability. Essentially, Solr defines a HOME which has a lib dir > in it. When someone wants to put their own custom code into Solr they > merely have to jar up their code and drop it in the lib directory and then > tell Solr about it. > > Any thoughts on grabbing this functionality (SolrResourceLoader) and > modifying it for Mahout for some of these things? Not sure how it would > play out for things running in Hadoop, but for both Taste and the utility > functions it seems like a win. > > -Grant >
