ColdFusion and Solr
I've spent the last few months working on some projects that didn't really have anything to do with ColdFusion (lots of Java and PHP). One of the projects I've been working with (Vufind.org) uses Solr as it's indexing/search engine. That's starting to get picked up by some pretty big companies (Netflix just relaunched their search using Solr this week).
I've been working with Solr in Java for a bit now, and I wanted to start to build an interface for using it as a search engine (my Lucene code is stuck in open source limbo) in Coldfusion. One of the cool things about Solr is that it returns results back through HTTP (in XML, JSON, or ruby).
As soon as I get the code finished, I'll post it as a patch in Solr.
forgive, but could you expand on this? Just curious what's happened as well as why Solr works better for you, especially for those that look at Lucene as a replacement for Verity K2.
"you picked a fine time to leave me, Lucene".
Since I work for an academic institution, it takes a while to get the greenlight to opensource software. I would argue that Solr is also a replacement for K2, especially with the 1.3 additions of Word, Powerpoint, and PDF indexing. All of this, without writing any of your own code! All you need to worry about is how to display the result sets (they come in XML and Ruby flavors).