Re: Start independent Zookeeper from within Solr install

2013-07-23 Thread Upayavira
The use case is to prevent the necessity to download something else (zookeeper) when everything needed to run it is (likely) present in the Solr distribution already. Maybe we don't need to start Jetty, maybe we can start Zookeeper with an extra script in the Solr codebase. At present, if you are

Re: Start independent Zookeeper from within Solr install

2013-07-23 Thread Timothy Potter
Curious what the use case is for this? Zookeeper is not an HTTP service so loading it in Jetty by itself doesn't really make sense. I also think this creates more work for the Solr team especially since setting up a production ensemble shouldn't take more than a few minutes once you have the nodes

Start independent Zookeeper from within Solr install

2013-07-23 Thread Upayavira
Assumptions: * you currently have two choices to start Zookeeper: run it embedded within Solr, or download it from the ZooKeeper site and start it independently. * everything you need to run ZooKeeper (embedded or not) is included within the Solr distribution Assuming I've got the above righ