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* Jay Luker, IT Specialist, ADS (jluker at cfa dot harvard dot edu)
* Benoit Thiell, software developer, ADS (bthiell at cfa dot harvard dot edu)
It’s well-established that [http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ Solr] provides an excellent foundation for building a faceted search engine. But what if your application’s foundation has already been constructed? How do you add Solr as a federated, fulltext search component to an existing system that already provides a full set of well-crafted scoring and ranking mechanisms?