Re: Architecture: How to commercialise a Solr based application?

2017-08-07 Thread Paul Smith Parker
Hello Charlie, Thank you for your reply. I am not trying to build anything like Searchblox nor Lucidworks Fusion. My expertise is in my customer’s domain, and I would like to sell them a product that fulfils their need to search their content in a smart way: easy-to-use admin UIs, clever

Re: Architecture: How to commercialise a Solr based application?

2017-08-07 Thread Charlie Hull
Hi Paul, You should be aware you're doing something that has been tried many times before - there are lots of Lucene-based 'packaged' search products out there, from Searchblox to Lucidworks Fusion to Attivio. It's not a small task. You should focus not on the technology (you could build this

Architecture: How to commercialise a Solr based application?

2017-08-06 Thread Paul Smith Parker
Hello, I am building a search application based on single core Solr 6.6 server, with an Angular frontend. Between the frontend and the Solr server I am thinking of using a Java backend (this to avoid exposing Solr end points directly to the frontend). I would like to package all those