: 2) The other options we have are not as easy as this (at least for a : casual user). The most common means of deploying an app in tomcat is : dropping the war file in the webapps folder. And the most common place : to put in JNDI variables is web.xml
the casual user should not have to unwar and edit the web.xml -- particularly since doing so is something that would then need to be done on every upgrade -- that's what context fragments in tomcat are for. Bottom line: the web.xml is not a "configuration" file, In general, users shouldn't need to worry about it's existence unless they wnat to (as "experienced" java users. : 3) The documentation must be there in the wiki. Let us decide on where : to keep it. A new "Hacking Solr" page perhaps? -Hoss
