README.txt

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Welcome to the Apache Solr project!
-----------------------------------

Apache Solr is a search server based on the Apache Lucene search
library. 

Apache Solr is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF), sponsored by Apache Lucene. Incubation is required of all
newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the
infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in
a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status
is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code,
it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

For a complete description of the Solr project, team composition, source
code repositories, and other details, please see the Solr incubation web site at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/solr.html.



Getting Started
---------------

See the "example" directory for an example Solr setup.  A tutorial
using the example setup can be found in "docs/tutorial.html" 



Files Included In Apache Solr Distributions
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dist/apache-solr-XX-incubating.war
  The Apache Solr Application.  Deploy this WAR file to any servlet
  container to run Apache Solr

dist/apache-solr-XX-incubating.jar
  The Apache Solr Libraries.  This JAR file is needed to compile
  Apache Solr Plugins (see http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPlugins for
  more information).

example/
  A self-contained example Solr instance, complete with a sample
  configuration, documents to index, and the Jetty Servlet container.
  Please see example/README.txt for information about running this example

docs/index.html
  The contents of the Apache Solr website.
  
docs/api/index.html
  The Apache Solr Javadoc API documentation.

src/
  The Apache Solr source code.



Instructions for Building Apache Solr from Source
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1. Download the J2SE 5.0 JDK (Java Development Kit) or later from http://java.sun.com.
   You will need the JDK installed, and the %JAVA_HOME%\bin directory included
   on your command path.  To test this, issue a "java -version" command from your
   shell and verify that the Java version is 5.0 or later.

2. Download the Apache Ant binary distribution from http://ant.apache.org.
   You will need Ant installed and the %ANT_HOME%\bin directory included on your
   command path.  To test this, issue a "ant -version" command from your
   shell and verify that Ant is available.

3. Download the Apache Solr distribution, linked from the above incubator
   web site.  Expand the distribution to a folder of your choice, e.g. c:\solr.   
   Alternately, you can obtain a copy of the latest Apache Solr source code
   directly from the Subversion repository:

     http://incubator.apache.org/solr/version_control.html

4. Navigate to that folder and issue an "ant" command to see the available options
   for building, testing, and packaging Solr.
   
   NOTE: 
   To see Solr in action you may want to use the "ant example" command to build
   and package Solr into the example/webapps directory. See also example/README.txt.