: in my schema I have First off, a bit of terminoligy clarification: Search COmponents are declarred in the solrconfig.xml file. schema.xml is where you define what, inherently, the data in your index *is*. solrocnfig.xml is where you define how you want people to be able to interact with the data in your index.
: Formulated, differently, my question is whether : - search-components can be defined by name within the requestHandler element of the schema : - or whether a differently named query search-component would still be used as query-component yes, and yes. SearchHandler refrences Search Components by name, using the component list it is configured with. So you can leave the name "query" for the default instance of QueryComponent and then give your custom component it's own name, and refer to it by name when configuring the SearchHandler's you want to use it... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SearchHandler http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SearchComponent -Hoss