Solr: Adding Lucene Search to your Website

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” (George Moore)

Without search capabilities, the web wouldn't be nearly as useful as it is today. Public websites have the luxury of letting Google do the indexing for them. For business applications that run behind the firewall, you need to go the extra step yourself. Lucene is an incredibly powerful open source indexing library. Solr makes it trivial to roll out Lucene by offering RESTful and JSON-based interfaces.

In this talk, we'll add local search capabilities to an existing website. We'll make indexing a natural part of the CRUD lifecycle, and demonstrate how easy it is to get Google-like capabilities behind the firewall.

About Scott Davis

Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.

Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development.

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