Introducing the Solr Spatial Plugin What do a directory services company, a wholesaler of bathroom fittings, a social events guide, an oceanographic data centre and the pan-European library initiative have in common? They all need to offer their clients the ability to search and filter results within a flexible geographic area, defined by the user. […]
Result grouping / Field Collapsing with Solr
In a number of search projects that I have done using Lucene and Solr there was a lot of almost identical data. From a user perspective, when searching the first result pages were full of documents that look very similar, for instance getting a full page of the same car model, where only the edition […]
Feed Your Database
The priority that performance testing gets among other development activities is always less; it is an “afterthought”, not a critical, ongoing part of the development process. Typically, it is done in higher environments like ST, QA. Some attention is given to performance in the prior SDLC cycles like design by making proper selection of frameworks. But […]
Announcing Dutch Lucene User Group
In the last 3 years we’ve witnessed the rise of open source enterprise search. Of course it was always there, and Apache Lucene in particular was there since, well… the previous century. But in the last 3 years the interest in this area has grown dramatically and the install/user base of the different Lucene related […]
Enterprise Search: Introduction to Solr
From day one, we at JTeam were very much occupied with pushing new revolutionary open source technologies that can bring real value to us and to our customers. We were there when Spring just started and we helped making it what it is today. We were one of the first companies to use Hibernate in […]
Oracle buys Sun – consolidation and open source
The news couldn’t be missed today. Both Sun and Oracle commented on their respective website shortly after the news hit the press and many people on blogs, twitter and other channels followed. It’s interesting to see how much consolidation has happened in the Java community in recent years. First there was the major acquisition of […]