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Overall Goal

Provide experienced web developers and technical staff with a comprehensive introduction to the Solr search platform. Teach software developer deep skills creating search solutions.

I. Fundamentals

• Solr Overview
• Installing and running Solr
• Adding content to Solr
• Reading a Solr XML response
• Changing parameters in the URL
• Using the browse interface
• Labs: install Solr, run queries

II. Searching

• Sorting results
• Query parsers
• More queries
• Hardwiring request parameters
• Adding fields to default search
• Faceting
• Result grouping
• Labs: advanced queries, experiment with faceted search

III. Indexing

• Adding your own content to Solr
• Deleting data from solr
• Building a bookstore search
• Adding book data
• Exploring the book data
• Dedupe update processor
• Labs: indexing various document collections

IV. Schema Updating

• Adding fields to the schema
• Analyzing text
• Labs: customize Solr schema

V. Relevance

• Field weighting
• Phrase queries
• Function queries
• Fuzzier search
• Sounds-like
• Labs: implementing queries for  relevance

VI. Extended features

• More-like-this
• Geospatial
• Spell checking
• Suggestions
• Highlighting
• Pseudo-fields
• Pseudo-joins
• Multilanguage
• Labs: implementing spell checking and suggestions

VII. Multicore

• Adding more kinds of data
• Labs: creating and administering cores

VIII. SolrCloud

• Introduction
• How SolrCloud works
• Commit strategies
• ZooKeeper
• Managing Solr config files
• Labs: administer SolrCloud

IX. Developing with Solr API

• Talking to Solr through REST
• Configuration
• Indexing and searching
• Solr and Spring
• Labs: code to read and write Solr index, exercise in Spring with Solr

X. Developing with Lucene API

• Building a Lucene index
• Searching, viewing, debugging
• Extracting text with Tika
• Scaling Lucene indices on clusters
• Lucene performance tuning
• Labs: coding with Lucene

XI. Conclusion

• Other approaches to search
  • ElasticSearch
  • DataStax Enterprise: Solr+Cassandra
  • Cloudera Solr integration
  • Blur
• Future directions