This book is an update to the first cookbook for Solr that was released almost two year ago now. What was at the beginning an update turned out to be a rewrite of almost all the recipes in the book, because we wanted to not only bring you an update to the already existing recipes, but also give you whole new recipes that will help you with common situations when using Apache Solr 4.0. I hope that the book you are holding in your hands (or reading on a computer or reader screen) will be useful to you.
Although I would go the same way if I could get back in time, the time of writing this book was not easy for my family. Among the ones who suffered the most were my wife Agnes and our two great kids, our son Philip and daughter Susanna. Without their patience and understanding, the writing of this book wouldn't have been possible. I would also like to thank my parents and Agnes' parents for their support and help.
I would like to thank all the people involved in creating, developing, and maintaining Lucene and Solr projects for their work and passion. Without them this book wouldn't have been written.
Once again, thank you.