You definitely have to write your own search UI in Share to call a different search engine, but because Solr has a REST interface and Share is built on Surf, which is purpose-built for interacting with other HTTP endpoints via REST, the UI component of the integration is not a huge deal. The bigger effort is making sure that you’ve hooked into document CRUD functions on the repository tier so that your Solr index stays up-to-date. Depending on your requirements, you might do that in behaviors, or in rules, or in a workflow.

As a side note, I’ve heard some murmurs about incorporating Solr into the Alfresco product somehow but I have neither details nor timeframe.

Jeff

Was googling a bit for “Alfresco and Solr” and this article came up. Have you had any more experience integrating Solr with Alfresco?

I’m especially interested in understanding whether it is feasible for the existing Alfresco Share search components to leverage Solr, or if that would likely require a fully custom Search UI written from scratch.

The existing Share Search UI seems pretty bare, so my current assumption is that it will be necessary to add additional Search UI for any advanced search features.

Any guidance?

Thanks again for all the great articles.

-Jason