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Published inApr 2016
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Vandana Pal
Vandana Pal
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Vandana Pal

Vandana Pal is a software engineer and author. She currently works as senior consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience working with Enterprise Digital Asset Management and Content Management Systems. She has worked with various deployments of Alfresco in various domains, such as media, finance, and healthcare, for different organizations across the world. She has hands-on experience working with architecture design, performance tuning, security implementation, integration, and the orchestration of complex workflows in Alfresco. She has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering. Her journey in this field began when she started working with different open source technologies and found them interesting. She holds a bachelors of engineering degree in information technology from Gujarat University, India. Vandana has also coauthored Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation.
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Understanding Solr and Alfresco integration


Searching in Alfresco is supported via the Solr4 search engine. Solr4 works as a standalone enterprise application. It is built in Java and uses lucene internally for indexing. Solr extends the lucene library to add new features around it and make it a standalone application. It exposes the REST API for searching and submitting content for indexing. It supports the indexing of any data via JSON/XML/CSV or binary. The search request is also supported by a HTTP Get request. Using HTTP, GET data can be searched using Solr.

Solr4 can be installed as an integral application with Alfresco on the same application server or it can be installed completely on a separate machine. The latest version of Solr4 also supports the clustering and sharding of indexing.

There are various advantages of Solr:

  • Scalable

  • Better performance

  • Allows Facet search and more accurate results

  • Easy monitoring and administration

  • Asynchronous indexing near to real time

  • Compact disk formats...

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Published in: Apr 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782175032

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Vandana Pal

Vandana Pal is a software engineer and author. She currently works as senior consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience working with Enterprise Digital Asset Management and Content Management Systems. She has worked with various deployments of Alfresco in various domains, such as media, finance, and healthcare, for different organizations across the world. She has hands-on experience working with architecture design, performance tuning, security implementation, integration, and the orchestration of complex workflows in Alfresco. She has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering. Her journey in this field began when she started working with different open source technologies and found them interesting. She holds a bachelors of engineering degree in information technology from Gujarat University, India. Vandana has also coauthored Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation.
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