Often when creating web/enterprise applications, there is a requirement to index data from multiple data sources like content management systems and databases .

Here I present a basic strategy to index database data into Solr using a Batch indexing strategy (instead of a realtime one).

Every web application or enterprise application today is search enabled. Behind the scenes, search is generally takes care of by “Search Engines”.

The powerpoint presentation here introduces Search Engines, indexing and search and briefly touches upon Solr and Lucene the mos popular open source search engine and library respectively.