Web admin console

[mausch]

Support web admin console. This requires porting JSP, which would bloat the whole thing.

[emargee]

Agree about JSP .. Quick ideas :

1. Write one from scratch using something lightweight like MVC ? Would it need to work with mono ? Although this adds extra dll's to the project.

2. Extend / create extra HTTP API so you can get all the info for the different admin screens etc back as JSON then just format them using simple HTML + Javascript ? I know Solr replication has a HTTP API already (http://goo.gl/MMr3f) not sure how much the rest of the project has :)

[mausch]

Yes, these are viable solutions. But for this project I think the zero-effort way is the way to go. Otherwise we'll always play catch-up with Solr, always having to maintain asp.net mvc, or some broken dependency in JSP or Solr. I'd just IKVM JSP (jsp-2.1.jar and jsp-api-2.1.jar - any other JARs needed?), then maybe we can build two packages: one with JSP and one without. Or maybe the bloat I mention is not such a big deal after all.