Creating demo UI ontop of Solr

Question

I'm looking into some example UI on top of Solr that show of the functionality available in a demo, like e.g. drill down faceted search. I found Blacklight, which looks intensively interesting. Is there any other software that is worth researching or is Blacklight definitive the way to go? Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you looked at using the Velocity templating built into Solr? You can find more about "Solritas" here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solritas

I am about to put together a demo Solr site for a presentation, and am going down the Solritas route. You get faceting, clustering, and more! And no extra server to run.