The purpose of AJAX Solr

AJAX Solr is a Solr client developed using JavaScript. AJAX Solr facilitates interesting visualizations of a result set that includes widgets to display tag clouds of facets, filtering of results by date fields, and plotting of maps based on country code information. AJAX Solr can be integrated with any web application enabling the Solr-related operations to be performed directly on the Apache Solr interface, without the necessity to incorporate any language in between.

Ideally, any request on the Internet is received by a web application residing on the server, and Solr-related operations are forwarded to the Solr server for processing. This is shown in the following diagram. The request originating from the browser travels over the Internet to the web application residing on the web server. The web server then creates a Solr request and performs the required operation on the Solr server.

With AJAX Solr, the intermediary web application can be removed from the picture...