I am going to move fairly fast on this one, with the following assumptions about the person(s) reading this:You can at least set up a linux server, with Fedora 2.2 or so using its bundled tomcat wi…

Most of the applications must have a some kind of a search function. The problem is that search functions are often huge resource hogs and they can kill the performance of our application by causing heavy load to the database. That is why transferring that load to an external search server is a great idea. This is the first part of my Spring Data Solr tutorial. During this tutorial we will implement a search function to a todo application which is the example application of my Spring MVC Test tutorial. The requirements of our search function are simple. It must return a list of todo entries which title or description contains the used search term. The search result page must also provide a link to the page used to view the information of a todo entry. Before we can start the implementation of our search function, we need to take a look at the Solr search server. This blog entry provides us the basic information about Solr and it is divided into three parts: The first part gives us a brief introduction to Solr and its data model. The second part describes how we can create a schema for our