CONTENTS OF THIS FILE --------------------- * About MontySolr * Configuration and features * Developing for MontySolr ABOUT MONTYSOLR --------------- MontySolr is an open source extension that makes it possible to include Python code inside Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr). You can call Python routines from the Java side, as well as control (most of the) Solr operations from the Python side. It is used by Astrophysics Data System, and grew to contain many interesting features. CONFIGURATION AND FEATURES -------------------------- MontySolr (what you get when you download and extract montysolr-x.y.tgz) is only an extension for Solr. You will need a separate Solr instance as well as a few dependencies to use MontySolr. More about configuration: * Install, upgrade, and maintaince: See INSTALL.txt in the same directory as this document. * Learn about how to extend MontySolr: See docs/technical-details.txt * See also: https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/rcarepo/wiki/MontySolr DEVELOPING FOR MONTYSOLR ------------------------ MontySolr contains very simple API and the layer between Solr and Python is intentionally kept minimal. In most cases you simply want to use MontySolr just as a communication layer between Solr and your own Python-written system. In this case you don't need to make any changes inside MontySolr, but you will write simple Python code that controls the business logic between Solr and Python. More about writing wrappers to call your Python system(s): * Hello world example See docs/hello-world.txt * To understand details of the wrappers See docs/how-to-wrap.txt If you need new functionality that is not present in MontySolr, search for existing solutions or discussion on the mailing list: * ADS Development Team adsteam at head dot cfa point harvard dot edu Roman Chyla roman point chyla at gmail point com * For more information about developing See docs/development.txt