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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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New
Description
I think it'd be useful to have a "demo" search server for Lucene.
Rather than being fully featured, like Solr, it would be minimal, just wrapping the existing Lucene modules to show how you can make use of these features in a server setting.
The purpose is to demonstrate how one can build a minimal search server on top of APIs like SearchManager, SearcherLifetimeManager, etc.
This is also useful for finding rough edges / issues in Lucene's APIs that make building a server unnecessarily hard.
I don't think it should have back compatibility promises (except Lucene's index back compatibility), so it's free to improve as Lucene's APIs change.
As a starting point, I'll post what I built for the "eating your own dog food" search app for Lucene's & Solr's jira issues http://jirasearch.mikemccandless.com (blog: http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2013/05/eating-dog-food-with-lucene.html ). It uses Netty to expose basic indexing & searching APIs via JSON, but it's very rough (lots nocommits).