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Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server - Third Edition

By : David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, Matt Mitchell
Book Image

Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server - Third Edition

By: David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, Matt Mitchell

Overview of this book

<p>Solr Apache is a widely popular open source enterprise search server that delivers powerful search and faceted navigation features—features that are elusive with databases. Solr supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query spell-checking, relevancy tuning, geospatial searches, and much more.</p> <p>This book is a comprehensive resource for just about everything Solr has to offer, and it will take you from first exposure to development and deployment in no time. Even if you wish to use Solr 5, you should find the information to be just as applicable due to Solr's high regard for backward compatibility. The book includes some useful information specific to Solr 5.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

ManifoldCF – a connector framework


Apache ManifoldCF (CF meaning Connector Framework) provides a framework for extracting content from multiple repositories, enriching it with document-level security information, and outputting the resulting document into Solr based on the security model found in Microsoft's Active Directory platform. Working with ManifoldCF requires an understanding of the interaction between extracting content from repositories via a Repository Connector, outputting the documents and security tokens via an Output Connector into Solr, listing a specific user's access tokens from an Authority Connector, and finally performing a search that filters the document results based on the list of tokens. ManifoldCF takes care of ensuring that, as content and security classifications for content are updated in the underlying repositories, it is synched to Solr, either on a scheduled basis or a constantly monitoring basis. Finally, it has a convenient web UI to manage the connector...