What you need for this book

In order to run most of the examples in this book, you will need Java Runtime Environment 1.7 or the newer version and of course, the 4.10 or the newer version of Apache Solr search server. To run examples found in this book, you might need a web browser or a command-line tool that is able to run HTTP requests such as curl.

The recipes in this book (unless stated otherwise) are tested in a Linux environment with the latest available Version of Solr 5.0. For Windows-based hosts, the single quotes should be replaced with double quotes in the commands. Remember that during the writing of this book, the final Version of Solr 5.0 was not released and there might have been changes between the version used during testing and the released Version of Solr 5.0.

A few chapters in this book require additional software such as Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.3 or Jetty.