Solr is a standalone enterprise search server with a web-services like API. You put documents in it (called “indexing”) via XML over HTTP. You query it via HTTP GET and receive XML results. Some of the main features of Solr are: Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities Facilitates Faceted browsing: Narrowing down...

Nutch is a framework for building web-scale crawlers and search applications. It is free and Open Source and uses Lucene for the search and index component. Nutch is built on top of Lucene adding functionality to efficiently crawl the web or intranet. Now the most obvious question is “Why Nutch...

Session: Agile Architecture - Technologies and Patterns - Kirk Knoernschild Some of the questions this session set out to attempt to answer were What is architecture? What defines architecture? What are architectural decisions? Is architecture a forward only decision? Several definitions of Architecture were quoted from prior literature. Such as...

Running a day late on my posts. Here’s day two (yesterday) Session: Grails Quick Start - David Klien David walked through the creation of a Grails web application to track a JUG’s meeting schedule. I liked his presentation style or maybe because the room wasn’t very crowded things just registered...