On Mon, May 18, 2015, at 01:42 PM, Steven White wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > With regards to Solr 5.0+, can someone point me where I can find out more > on: > > 1) Why WAR support is deprecated and is being dropped from Solr? and > 2) How do I deploy Solr 5.1 in a servlet other than Jetty, such as > WebSphere?
Others may know where definitive information is on the topic. Basically, the intention is that Solr is an application, not a servlet app. It is provided with its own container, and you start it as you would any other application, mysql/mongodb/etc. The benefits are that it gives developers the ability to think outside of the constraints of the servlet spec, and it makes testing much more efficient and effective - all tests use the embedded Jetty (or whatever is used in the future). You certainly *can* install Solr in WebSphere/etc, but increasingly this will cause you problems, and you might start to find features that won't be supported at some point in that context. HTH Upayavira
