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Archive for February 22nd, 2006

Java 1.5 as default on OS X

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

I have made the leap to Java 1.5 for my development at home on my Apple G4. It is quite simple, just follow the instructions here and it worked like a charm, except the Command line advice. I would instead set your JAVA_HOME to be /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/, since most current applications (such as Tomcat [...]

Solr - Lucene based Search Server

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

There is a new search server being incubated at Apache based on Lucene. It was created by CNET, where they use it on a number of projects. It is called Solr (solar) and is located here.
Looks promising, although the documentation is a bit sparse. I am going to install it tonight and [...]