what happen when zookeeper not running in solr ?

Nice aritile about when zookeeper fails

http://java.dzone.com/articles/solrcloud-what-happens-when

how to recover corrupted index of solr?

command to fix the lucene corrupted index

java -ea:org.apache.lucene... org.apache.lucene.index.CheckIndex INDEX_PATH -fix

example

java -cp lucene-core-2.9.3.jar -ea:org.apache.lucene... org.apache.lucene.index.CheckIndex E:\\Solr\\solr\\data\\index\\ -fix

CheckIndex for the rescue

While using Lucene and Solr we are used to a very high reliability of this products. However, there may come the day when Solr will inform us that our index is corrupted, and we need to do something about it. Is the only way to repair the index is to restore it from the backup or do full indexation ? Not only – there is hope in the form of CheckIndex tool.

What is CheckIndex ?

CheckIndex is a tool available in the Lucene library, which allows you to check the files and create new segments that do not contain problematic entries. This means that this tool, with little loss of data is able to repair a broken index, and thus save us from having to restore the index from the backup (of course if we have it) or do the full indexing of all documents that were stored in Solr.

original ariticle

Return type of compareTo() and compare() in java

Comparator interface in Java has method public int compare (Object o1, Object o2) which returns a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as the first argument is less than, equal to, or greater than the second. While Comparable interface has method public int compareTo(Object o) which returns a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as this object is less than, equal to, or greater than the specified object.

Java is Pass-by-Value or Pass-by-Reference ?

The Java Spec says that everything in Java is pass-by-value. There is no such thing as "pass-by-reference" in Java.

The key to understanding this is that something like

Dog myDog;

is not a Dog; it's actually a pointer to a Dog.

What that means, is when you have

Dog myDog = new Dog("Rover");
foo(myDog);

you're essentially passing the address of the created Dog object to the foo method.

(I say essentially because Java pointers aren't direct addresses, but it's easiest to think of them that way)

Suppose the Dog object resides at memory address 42. This means we pass 42 to the method.

if the Method were defined as

public void foo(Dog someDog) {
    someDog.setName("Max");     // AAA
    someDog = new Dog("Fifi");  // BBB
    someDog.setName("Rowlf");   // CCC
}

let's look at what's happening.

• the parameter someDog is set to the value 42
• at line "AAA"
  • someDog is followed to the Dog it points to (the Dog object at address 42)
  • that Dog (the one at address 42) is asked to change his name to Max
• at line "BBB"
  • a new Dog is created. Let's say he's at address 74
  • we assign the parameter someDog to 74
• at line "CCC"
  • someDog is followed to the Dog it points to (the Dog object at address 74)
  • that Dog (the one at address 74) is asked to change his name to Rowlf
• then, we return

Now let's think about what happens outside the method:

Did myDog change?

There's the key.

Keeping in mind that myDog is a pointer, and not an actual Dog, the answer is NO. myDog still has the value 42; it's still pointing to the original Dog.

It's perfectly valid to follow an address and change what's at the end of it; that does not change the variable, however.

Java works exactly like C. You can assign a pointer, pass the pointer to a method, follow the pointer in the method and change the data that was pointed to. However, you cannot change where that pointer points.

In C++, Ada, Pascal and other languages that support pass-by-reference, you can actually change the variable that was passed.

If Java had pass-by-reference semantics, the foo method we defined above would have changed where myDog was pointing when it assigned someDog on line BBB.

Think of reference parameters as being aliases for the variable passed in. When that alias is assigned, so is the variable that was passed in.

Does that help? (I'll have to add this as an addendum to my article...)

for Original ariticle.
some of nice discussion on stackoverflow