Solr's new Plugin System
Channel: The ASF
Date: 2020-10-17

Solr's new Plugin System
David Smiley

A presentation from ApacheCon @Home 2020
https://apachecon.com/acah2020/

Solr 8.4 has a new plugin system that portends of a better future much improved from today: (a) load plugins at runtime, (b) find 3rd party plugins in a registry, (c) fetch, install, and even configure plugins from the command line (CLI), (d) a more slimmed down Solr distribution that is more secure. After an overview, you will see this system demonstrated, after which you should feel comfortable in trying it out for yourself when you leave. Beyond the CLI demonstration, we'll look behind the covers a bit to show some of how it works. We'll finish with a discussion of the gaps and thus what the future hopefully holds as this new mechanism blossoms. You'll learn a bit about what it takes to "package" up your plugins too.

David Smiley is a prolific Apache Lucene/Solr committer/PMC member and ASF member. David has written books, delivered training, and speaks at meetups & conferences on this subject. Ultimately, his passion his hacking on Lucene & Solr. He works on search at Salesforce which graciously supports these endeavors.