: I felt (and still do) that if there is a configuration error : everything should fail loudly. The option in solrconfig.xml was added : as a back-compatible way to get both behaviors.
Oh man ... i completley remembered that backwards ... i thought you were the one that was argueing in favor of letting people set aportOnConfigError=false so that they could use handlerA even if handlerB didn't init properly. : Does a lack replies to this thread imply that everyone agrees? I think so. -Hoss