Can a raw Lucene index be loaded by Solr?

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Published on 2010-04-26T18:44:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 19:03 UTC
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Some colleagues of mine have a large Java web app that uses a search system built with Lucene Java. What I'd like to do is have a nice HTTP-based API to access those existing search indexes. I've used Nutch before and really liked how simple the OpenSearch implementation made it to grab results as RSS.

I've tried setting Solr's dataDir in solrconfig.xml, hoping it would happily pick up the existing index files, but it seems to just ignore them.

My main question is:

Can Solr be used to access Lucene indexes created elsewhere? Or might there be a better solution?

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