[Blacklight-development] new blacklight

[Jonathan Rochkind]

So I checked out the brand new blacklight from svn. Thanks, I do think 
it makes sense to have your guys own effective 'trunk' in the actual svn 
trunk.

I like how one command starts both rails (with mongrel?) and SOLR (is 
this jetty? Are you guys really using Jetty for production?).

And thanks for still supplying a basic readme telling me how to get the 
thing started and such. But the new readme doesn't include instructions 
on how import anything into the SOLR/Lucene.  Should I try to adopt the 
old instructions using the old ruby import routines (are those still in 
svn?).  Or can you guys provide me with a couple sentances to get me 
started using your new Java import routines?  (Do you still have your 
small demo set included in the svn? If not, mind if I add it back?).

One thing I'm going to want to figure out how to do is how to change the 
MARC mapping of the new Java import routines. In particular, my local 
item level holdings are going to be in a different field and subfields 
than yours (not 999 like yours). Once I get to that point, is that going 
to require me to have a Java dev environment/compiler?  I guess I'll 
find out once I get to that point.

Thanks for any help you can provide. Sorry I approach this stuff in fits 
and starts; I work on it one day a week at most, which means I'm always 
having to remember everything I forgot over the past week.

Jonathan

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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886 
rochkind (at) jhu.edu