180 WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 2 Search Solution Overview and Deployment
7.1 Solr V1.3 indexes
Solr is a stand-alone enterprise search server with a Representational State Transfer
(REST)-like application programming interface (API). You put documents in the Solr server,
which is called
indexing, via XML, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), or binary over HTTP.
You query it via HTTP GET and receive XML, JSON, or binary results. Solr uses the Lucene
search engine API.
7.2 IBM WebSphere Commerce V7.0 index
WebSphere Commerce V7.0 search uses one index configuration, the catalog index. Multiple
catalog instances, or
cores, exist in a production environment. For our exercise, we deploy the
index inside the WebSphere Commerce Developer Edition ...