Also of note: If I get any free cycles, my #1 priority is to re-enable the default Nutch web-app through JAX-RS or the recent work that Andrzej was doing with REST services and Restlet. I don't think it would be hard, just haven't had the time yet.
Cheers, Chris On Jul 6, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Julien Nioche wrote: > Hi, > > The decision to drop the legacy Nutch search web apps was motivated by the > following facts : > 1 - most people tend to use SOLR anyway > 2 - the number of active developers / committers is very limited which means > that we couldn't maintain / improve the Nutch searcher and work on other > aspects of Nutch > 3 - SOLR has more functionality, a larger community - trying to catch up and > match the functionalities in Nutch would have been a duplication of efforts > and IMHO a waste of time > > This is part of a larger attempt in Nutch to delegate to external components > : Tika, SOLR and shortly crawler-commons. It makes sense to contribute to > these projects and benefits from external contributions. We can then focus > on more specific crawling-related issues and make Nutch better, the move > towards 2.0 is a good example of this. This is a change in the scope of the > project from being an open source large scale search engine to an open > source crawler indeed. We should make this clearer on the website. > > While I agree that moving your search to SOLR represents an investment in > the short term, you will benefit from the efforts from the SOLR/Lucene > community, for instance the field collapsing in 3.3 is something that should > be of interest to a lot of Nutch users. > > Hope it makes sense > > Julien > > On 6 July 2011 18:18, MilleBii <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not too happy either that 1.3 forces to use Solr. >> Which means I have to redevelop all my search web sites, didn't need that >> extra work/burden. >> >> I will start the process to upgrade to 1.2 but 1.3 is a much bigger issue >> for me. >> >> 2011/7/6 Markus Jelsma <[email protected]> >> >>> I'd still recommend to upgrade. Modifying Solr's example Velocity >> template >>> is >>> really simple. You'll get a complete HTML driven search engine for free! >>> >>> On Wednesday 06 July 2011 18:57:26 [email protected] wrote: >>>> So, I assume that, for now, I and people like me, should stick with >> older >>>> versions of Nutch, until something comes along that allows us to have >>> just >>>> a regular safety engine. >>>> Thank you for your prompt reply. >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> With Solr's Velocity integration you can easily get an interface >>> without >>>>> a lot >>>>> of work. It hasn't been tuned to work with Nutch' data yet. It's on >> the >>>>> todo >>>>> list. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday 06 July 2011 18:29:59 [email protected] wrote: >>>>>> Ok, I could do the integration of Nutch-1.3 and Solr 3.3, but the >>>>>> interface of Solr seems quite complicated to me. I just want to >> have >>> a >>>>>> search engine with a customizable front and results pages, in full >>> html >>>>>> (not xml) like Nutch provided, until the last version. It is clear >> to >>>>>> me >>>>>> that I have a lot do learn about Solr, or, may be, Nutch deviated >>> from >>>>>> the original purpose? I also noticed that the clustering-carrot2 is >>> not >>>>>> included and this one was very important to me. >>>>>> Is there any tutorial that clarify those questions? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex >>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 >>>>> 050-8536620 / 06-50258350 >>> >>> -- >>> Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 >>> 050-8536620 / 06-50258350 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -MilleBii- >> > > > > -- > * > *Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering > > http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ > http://www.digitalpebble.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
