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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

You're reading from Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788837385

Pages 308 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Enterprise Search

Authors (3):

Sandeep Nair

Chintan Mehta

Dharmesh Vasoya

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

Introduction to Solr 7

Getting Started

Designing Schemas

Mastering Text Analysis Methodologies

Data Indexing and Operations

Advanced Queries – Part I

Advanced Queries – Part II

Managing and Fine-Tuning Solr

Client APIs – An Overview

Index

Solr installation

Let's get up and running with Solr. At the time of writing of this book, the latest stable version of Solr was 7.1.0. This book focuses all its aspects on Apache Solr 7.1.0.

Getting up and running with Apache Solr requires the following prerequisites:

Java 8 (mandatory)
Cygwin (optional, recommended for Windows)
curl (optional, recommended)

So, you will necessarily require JRE version 1.8 or higher for Solr to run. Go ahead! Open Command Prompt, type the following command, and check your Java version:

java -version

It should show the following output:

If your output is something different, it means Java is not properly installed and it needs to be installed properly. Also, the PATH variable should point to JRE 1.8. You can download Java from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html if needed.

Cygwin and curl utilities are not mandatory but will be helpful when we go deeper.

The next step is to download Apache Solr. An important point to keep in mind is that...

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Authors (3)

Sandeep Nair

Sandeep has been working in Liferay technology for more than 8 years and has more than 10 years' of overall experience in Java and Java EE technologies. He has executed projects using Liferay across various verticals such as construction, financial, and medical domains, providing solutions for collaboration, enterprise content management, and Web content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries according to sourceforge statistics. Besides development, consulting, and implementing solutions he has also been involved in giving training on Liferay in other countries. Before he jumped into Liferay he had experience in Java and Java EE Technologies. He has authored "Liferay Beginner's Guide" and "Instant Liferay Portal 6 Starter" with Packt Publishing. When he is not coding, he loves to read books and travel.

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Chintan Mehta

Chintan Mehta is a co-founder of KNOWARTH Technologies and heads the cloud/RIMS/DevOps team. He has rich, progressive experience in server administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, DevOps, RIMS, and on open source technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Chintan has authored MySQL 8 for Big Data, Mastering Apache Solr 7.x, MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide, and Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions. Also, he has reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices and Building Serverless Web Applications.

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Dharmesh Vasoya

Dharmesh Vasoya is a Liferay 6.2 certified developer. He has 5.5 years of experience in application development with technologies such as Java, Liferay, Spring, Hibernate, Portlet, and JSF. He has successfully delivered projects in various domains, such as healthcare, collaboration, communication, and enterprise CMS, using Liferay. Dharmesh has good command of the configuration setup of servers such as Solr, Tomcat, JBOSS, and Apache Web Server. He has good experience of clustering, load balancing and performance tuning. He completed his MCA at Ahmedabad University.

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