Okay, I added the javabin handler snippet to the solrconfig.xml file (actually shared across all cores). I got further (the request made it past tomcat and into SOLR) but haven't quite succeeded yet.
Server trace: Mar 19, 2012 3:31:35 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute INFO: [testcore1] webapp=/solr path=/update/javabin params={waitSearcher=true&commit=true&literal.id=testid1&waitFlush=true&wt=javabin&stream.file=C:\work\SolrC lient\data\justin2.txt&version=2} status=500 QTime=82 Mar 19, 2012 3:31:35 PM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid version (expected 2, but -17) or the data in not in 'javabin' format at org.apache.solr.common.util.JavaBinCodec.unmarshal(JavaBinCodec.java:99) at org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.JavaBinUpdateRequestCodec.unmarshal(JavaBinUpdateRequestCodec.java:144) at org.apache.solr.handler.BinaryUpdateRequestHandler.parseAndLoadDocs(BinaryUpdateRequestHandler.java:69) at org.apache.solr.handler.BinaryUpdateRequestHandler.access$000(BinaryUpdateRequestHandler.java:45) at org.apache.solr.handler.BinaryUpdateRequestHandler$1.load(BinaryUpdateRequestHandler.java:56) at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:58) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1372) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:356) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) ================================================= SOLRJ client log: Starting SOLR doc indexing client 2 Exception in thread "main" org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Internal Server Error Internal Server Error request: http://localhost:8080/solr/testcore1/update/javabin at org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.CommonsHttpSolrServer.request(CommonsHttpSolrServer.java:432) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Is-there-a-way-for-SOLR-SOLRJ-to-index-files-directly-bypassing-HTTP-streaming-tp3833419p3840290.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.