diff --git a/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml b/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
index 82f4ba9a8..49a2aff5a 100644
--- a/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
+++ b/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
@@ -46,14 +46,6 @@
 -->
 
 <schema name="example" version="1.2">
-  <!-- attribute "name" is the name of this schema and is only used for display purposes.
-       Applications should change this to reflect the nature of the search collection.
-       version="1.2" is Solr's version number for the schema syntax and semantics.  It should
-       not normally be changed by applications.
-       1.0: multiValued attribute did not exist, all fields are multiValued by nature
-       1.1: multiValued attribute introduced, false by default 
-       1.2: omitTermFreqAndPositions attribute introduced, true by default except for text fields.
-     -->
 
   <types>
     <!-- field type definitions. The "name" attribute is
@@ -426,36 +418,37 @@
        when adding a document.
    -->
 
-   <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" /> 
-   <field name="sku" type="textTight" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="true"/>
-   <field name="name" type="textgen" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="alphaNameSort" type="alphaOnlySort" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
-   <field name="manu" type="textgen" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="true"/>
-   <field name="cat" type="text_ws" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" omitNorms="true" />
-   <field name="features" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
-   <field name="includes" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" termVectors="true" termPositions="true" termOffsets="true" />
-
-   <field name="weight" type="float" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="price"  type="float" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="popularity" type="int" indexed="true" stored="true" />
-   <field name="inStock" type="boolean" indexed="true" stored="true" />
 
 
-   <!-- Common metadata fields, named specifically to match up with
-     SolrCell metadata when parsing rich documents such as Word, PDF.
-     Some fields are multiValued only because Tika currently may return
-     multiple values for them.
-   -->
-   <field name="title" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
-   <field name="subject" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="description" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="comments" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="author" type="textgen" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="keywords" type="textgen" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="category" type="textgen" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="content_type" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
-   <field name="last_modified" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <field name="links" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
+
+<!-- ****************************  Vitro Fields *************************** -->
+
+
+
+<field name="DocId" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" /> 
+
+<field name="type" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="ture" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="classLocalName" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="classLocalNameLowerCase" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="classgroup" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="PROHIBITED_FROM_TEXT_RESULTS" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="false"/>
+<field name="URI" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false" omitNorms="true"/>
+<field name="name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="nameunstemmed" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="nameunanalyzed" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="nameraw" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="indexedTime" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="ALLTEXT" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="ALLTEXTUNSTEMMED" type="textgen" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
+<field name="THUMBNAIL" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+
+
+<field name="moniker" type="ignored" />
+<field name="modType" type="ignored"/>
+<field name="JCLASS" type="ignored"/>
+
+
+
 
 
    <!-- catchall field, containing all other searchable text fields (implemented
@@ -466,19 +459,7 @@
         leading wildcard queries. -->
    <field name="text_rev" type="text_rev" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
 
-   <!-- non-tokenized version of manufacturer to make it easier to sort or group
-        results by manufacturer.  copied from "manu" via copyField -->
-   <field name="manu_exact" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
-
-   <field name="payloads" type="payloads" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-
-   <!-- Uncommenting the following will create a "timestamp" field using
-        a default value of "NOW" to indicate when each document was indexed.
-     -->
-   <!--
-   <field name="timestamp" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true" default="NOW" multiValued="false"/>
-     -->
-   
+   <field name="timestamp" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true" default="NOW" multiValued="false"/>   
 
    <!-- Dynamic field definitions.  If a field name is not found, dynamicFields
         will be used if the name matches any of the patterns.
@@ -521,10 +502,10 @@
  <!-- Field to use to determine and enforce document uniqueness. 
       Unless this field is marked with required="false", it will be a required field
    -->
- <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey>
+ <uniqueKey>DocId</uniqueKey>
 
  <!-- field for the QueryParser to use when an explicit fieldname is absent -->
- <defaultSearchField>text</defaultSearchField>
+ <defaultSearchField>ALLTEXT</defaultSearchField>
 
  <!-- SolrQueryParser configuration: defaultOperator="AND|OR" -->
  <solrQueryParser defaultOperator="OR"/>
@@ -533,12 +514,7 @@
         is added to the index.  It's used either to index the same field differently,
         or to add multiple fields to the same field for easier/faster searching.  -->
 
-   <copyField source="cat" dest="text"/>
-   <copyField source="name" dest="text"/>
-   <copyField source="manu" dest="text"/>
-   <copyField source="features" dest="text"/>
-   <copyField source="includes" dest="text"/>
-   <copyField source="manu" dest="manu_exact"/>
+<!--   <copyField source="name" dest="text"/> -->
 	
    <!-- Above, multiple source fields are copied to the [text] field. 
 	  Another way to map multiple source fields to the same 
diff --git a/solr/exampleSolr/conf/solrconfig.xml b/solr/exampleSolr/conf/solrconfig.xml
index 4a8735591..8a1c14665 100644
--- a/solr/exampleSolr/conf/solrconfig.xml
+++ b/solr/exampleSolr/conf/solrconfig.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
   <!-- Used to specify an alternate directory to hold all index data
        other than the default ./data under the Solr home.
        If replication is in use, this should match the replication configuration. -->
-  <dataDir>${solr.data.dir:./solr/data}</dataDir>
+<!--  <dataDir>${solr.data.dir:./solr/data}</dataDir> -->
 
 
   <!-- WARNING: this <indexDefaults> section only provides defaults for index writers
diff --git a/webapp/config/example.deploy.properties b/webapp/config/example.deploy.properties
index 9c4b51ed4..5650d7d28 100644
--- a/webapp/config/example.deploy.properties
+++ b/webapp/config/example.deploy.properties
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ VitroConnection.DataSource.url = jdbc:mysql://localhost/vitro
 VitroConnection.DataSource.username = vitroweb
 VitroConnection.DataSource.password = vitrovitro
 
+#
+# The URL to connect to for the Solr service that is used by the application.
+# The Solr service provides the application with full text search and many
+# other features.  If you leave this commented out the application will attempt to use
+# the solr from the same tomcat server at the context ${webapp.name}solr
+#
+# vitro.local.solr.url = 
+
 #
 # The name of your first admin user for the VIVO application. The password 
 # for this user is initially set to "defaultAdmin", but you will be asked to 
diff --git a/webapp/lib/apache-solr-solrj-1.4.1.jar b/webapp/lib/apache-solr-solrj-1.4.1.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..130ec5347
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diff --git a/webapp/lib/jcl-over-slf4j-1.5.5.jar b/webapp/lib/jcl-over-slf4j-1.5.5.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6b8ddd633
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diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/IndividualToSolrDocument.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/IndividualToSolrDocument.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..25d1dfb24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/IndividualToSolrDocument.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.solr;
+
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocument;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.IndexingException;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.docbuilder.Obj2DocIface;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.lucene.Entity2LuceneDoc;
+
+public class IndividualToSolrDocument implements Obj2DocIface {
+    
+    protected LuceneDocToSolrDoc luceneToSolr;
+    protected Entity2LuceneDoc entityToLucene;
+    
+    public IndividualToSolrDocument(Entity2LuceneDoc e2d){
+        entityToLucene = e2d;  
+        luceneToSolr = new LuceneDocToSolrDoc();
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public boolean canTranslate(Object obj) {
+        return obj != null && obj instanceof Individual;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean canUnTranslate(Object result) {
+        return result != null && result instanceof SolrDocument;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object getIndexId(Object obj) {
+        throw new Error("IndiviudalToSolrDocument.getIndexId() is unimplemented");        
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object translate(Object obj) throws IndexingException {
+        return luceneToSolr.translate( entityToLucene.translate( obj ) );
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object unTranslate(Object result) {
+        return luceneToSolr.unTranslate( result ); 
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/LuceneDocToSolrDoc.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/LuceneDocToSolrDoc.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..806240d62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/LuceneDocToSolrDoc.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.solr;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocument;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrInputDocument;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.IndividualImpl;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.IndexingException;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.docbuilder.Obj2DocIface;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.lucene.Entity2LuceneDoc;
+
+/**
+ * Translate a lucene Document into a SolrDocument.
+ */
+public class LuceneDocToSolrDoc implements Obj2DocIface {
+
+    
+    @Override
+    public boolean canTranslate(Object obj) {        
+        return obj != null && obj instanceof Document;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean canUnTranslate(Object result) {
+        return result != null && result instanceof SolrDocument; 
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object getIndexId(Object obj) {        
+        //"this method isn't useful for solr"
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object translate(Object obj) throws IndexingException {
+        Document luceneDoc = (Document)obj;
+        SolrInputDocument solrDoc = new SolrInputDocument();
+        
+        for( Object f : luceneDoc.getFields()){
+            Field field = (Field)f;
+            solrDoc.addField( new String(field.name()), field.stringValue()  );
+        }
+        return solrDoc;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object unTranslate(Object result) {
+        Individual ind = null;
+        if( result != null && result instanceof SolrDocument){
+            SolrDocument hit = (SolrDocument)result;
+            String id = (String) hit.getFieldValue(Entity2LuceneDoc.term.URI);
+            ind = new IndividualImpl();
+            ind.setURI(id);            
+        }
+        return ind;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SolrIndexer.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SolrIndexer.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d7159e8b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SolrIndexer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.solr;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServer;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocument;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrInputDocument;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.IndexingException;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.docbuilder.Obj2DocIface;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.indexing.IndexerIface;
+
+public class SolrIndexer implements IndexerIface {
+    private final static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(SolrIndexer.class);
+    
+    protected SolrServer server;
+    protected boolean indexing;    
+    protected List<Obj2DocIface> obj2DocList;
+    protected HashSet<String> urisIndexed;
+    
+    public SolrIndexer( SolrServer server, List<Obj2DocIface> o2d){
+        this.server = server; 
+        this.obj2DocList = o2d;        
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void index(Individual ind, boolean newDoc) throws IndexingException {
+
+        if( ! indexing )
+            throw new IndexingException("SolrIndexer: must call " +
+                    "startIndexing() before index().");
+        
+        if( ind == null )
+            log.debug("Individual to index was null, ignoring.");
+        
+        try{
+            if( urisIndexed.contains(ind.getURI()) ){
+                log.debug("already indexed " + ind.getURI() );
+                return;
+            }else{
+                urisIndexed.add(ind.getURI());
+                log.debug("indexing " + ind.getURI());
+                Iterator<Obj2DocIface> it = getObj2DocList().iterator();
+                while (it.hasNext()) {
+                    Obj2DocIface obj2doc = (Obj2DocIface) it.next();
+                    if (obj2doc.canTranslate(ind)) {
+                        SolrInputDocument solrDoc = (SolrInputDocument) obj2doc.translate(ind);
+                        if( solrDoc != null){
+                            //sending each doc individually is inefficient
+                            Collection<SolrInputDocument> docs = new ArrayList<SolrInputDocument>();
+                            docs.add( solrDoc );
+                            server.add( docs );
+//                            if( !newDoc ){  
+//                                server.add( docs );
+//                                log.debug("updated " + ind.getName() + " " + ind.getURI());
+//                            }else{                 
+//                                server.add( docs );
+//                                log.debug("added " + ind.getName() + " " + ind.getURI());
+//                            }
+                        }else{
+                            log.debug("removing from index " + ind.getURI());
+                            //writer.deleteDocuments((Term)obj2doc.getIndexId(ind));
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (IOException ex) {
+            throw new IndexingException(ex.getMessage());
+        } catch (SolrServerException ex) {
+            throw new IndexingException(ex.getMessage());
+        }
+        
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isIndexing() {     
+        return indexing;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void prepareForRebuild() throws IndexingException {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void removeFromIndex(Individual ind) throws IndexingException {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void startIndexing() throws IndexingException {        
+        while( indexing ){ //wait for indexing to end.
+            log.debug("LuceneIndexer.startIndexing() waiting...");
+            try{ wait(); } catch(InterruptedException ex){}
+        }
+               
+        log.debug("Starting to index");        
+        indexing = true;
+        urisIndexed = new HashSet<String>();        
+        notifyAll();        
+    }
+    
+    
+    public synchronized void addObj2Doc(Obj2DocIface o2d) {
+        if (o2d != null)
+            obj2DocList.add(o2d);
+    }
+
+    public synchronized List<Obj2DocIface> getObj2DocList() {
+        return obj2DocList;
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public void abortIndexingAndCleanUp() {
+        endIndexing();        
+    }
+   
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void endIndexing() {
+        try {
+            server.commit();            
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            log.error("Could not commit to solr server", e);
+        }
+        
+        try {
+            server.optimize();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            log.error("Could not optimize solr server", e);
+        }
+        indexing = false;
+        notifyAll();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long getModified() {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isIndexEmpty() {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    
+   
+   
+
+}
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SolrSetup.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SolrSetup.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef6bf0fad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SolrSetup.java
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.solr;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
+import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServer;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.CommonsHttpSolrServer;
+
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.OntModel;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.BaseResourceBean.RoleLevel;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.config.ConfigurationProperties;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.DisplayVocabulary;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.WebappDaoFactory;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.filtering.WebappDaoFactoryFiltering;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.filtering.filters.VitroFilterUtils;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.filtering.filters.VitroFilters;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.jena.ModelContext;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.jena.SearchReindexingListener;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.beans.IndividualProhibitedFromSearch;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.beans.ObjectSourceIface;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.beans.ProhibitedFromSearch;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.docbuilder.Obj2DocIface;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.indexing.IndexBuilder;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.lucene.Entity2LuceneDoc;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.lucene.LuceneSetup;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.servlet.setup.AbortStartup;
+
+public class SolrSetup implements javax.servlet.ServletContextListener{   
+    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(SolrSetup.class.getName());
+    
+    protected static final String LOCAL_SOLR_SERVER  = "vitro.local.solr.server";
+    
+    @Override
+    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {        
+        if (AbortStartup.isStartupAborted(sce.getServletContext())) {
+            return;
+        }
+                              
+        try {        
+            ServletContext context = sce.getServletContext();
+            
+            /* setup the http connection with the solr server */
+            String solrServerUrl = ConfigurationProperties.getBean(sce).getProperty("vitro.local.solr.url");
+            if( solrServerUrl == null ){
+                log.error("Could not find vitro.local.solr.url in deploy.properties.  "+
+                        "Vitro application needs a URL of a solr server that it can use to index its data. " +
+                        "The it should be something like http://localhost:${port}" + context.getContextPath() + "solr" 
+                        );
+                return;
+            }            
+            CommonsHttpSolrServer server;
+            server = new CommonsHttpSolrServer( solrServerUrl );
+            server.setSoTimeout(1000);  // socket read timeout
+            server.setConnectionTimeout(100);
+            server.setDefaultMaxConnectionsPerHost(100);
+            server.setMaxTotalConnections(100);         
+            server.setMaxRetries(1);            
+            context.setAttribute(LOCAL_SOLR_SERVER, server);
+                        
+            /* setup the individual to solr doc translation */            
+            //first we need a ent2luceneDoc translator
+            OntModel displayOntModel = (OntModel) sce.getServletContext().getAttribute("displayOntModel");
+            Entity2LuceneDoc ent2LuceneDoc = new Entity2LuceneDoc( 
+                    new ProhibitedFromSearch(DisplayVocabulary.PRIMARY_LUCENE_INDEX_URI, displayOntModel),
+                    new IndividualProhibitedFromSearch(context) );                                              
+            IndividualToSolrDocument indToSolrDoc = new IndividualToSolrDocument( ent2LuceneDoc );
+            List<Obj2DocIface> o2d = new ArrayList<Obj2DocIface>();
+            o2d.add(indToSolrDoc);
+            
+            /* setup solr indexer */
+            SolrIndexer solrIndexer = new SolrIndexer(server, o2d);            
+            if( solrIndexer.isIndexEmpty() ){
+                log.info("solr index is empty, requesting rebuild");
+                sce.getServletContext().setAttribute(LuceneSetup.INDEX_REBUILD_REQUESTED_AT_STARTUP, Boolean.TRUE);         
+            }            
+            
+            // This is where the builder gets the list of places to try to
+            // get objects to index. It is filtered so that non-public text
+            // does not get into the search index.
+            WebappDaoFactory wadf = (WebappDaoFactory) context.getAttribute("webappDaoFactory");
+            VitroFilters vf = VitroFilterUtils.getDisplayFilterByRoleLevel(RoleLevel.PUBLIC, wadf);
+            wadf = new WebappDaoFactoryFiltering(wadf, vf);
+            List<ObjectSourceIface> sources = new ArrayList<ObjectSourceIface>();
+            sources.add(wadf.getIndividualDao());
+            
+            IndexBuilder builder = new IndexBuilder(context, solrIndexer, sources);
+            // to the servlet context so we can access it later in the webapp.
+            context.setAttribute(IndexBuilder.class.getName(), builder);
+            
+            // set up listeners so search index builder is notified of changes to model
+            ServletContext ctx = sce.getServletContext();
+            SearchReindexingListener srl = new SearchReindexingListener(builder);
+            ModelContext.registerListenerForChanges(ctx, srl);
+                                    
+            if( sce.getServletContext().getAttribute(LuceneSetup.INDEX_REBUILD_REQUESTED_AT_STARTUP) instanceof Boolean &&
+                (Boolean)sce.getServletContext().getAttribute(LuceneSetup.INDEX_REBUILD_REQUESTED_AT_STARTUP) ){
+                log.info("Rebuild of solr index required before startup.");
+                builder.doIndexRebuild();                                               
+                int n = 0;
+                while( builder.isReindexRequested() || builder.isIndexing() ){
+                    n++;
+                    if( n % 20 == 0 ) //output message every 10 sec. 
+                        log.info("Still rebuilding solr index");
+                    Thread.sleep(500);
+                }               
+            }
+            
+            log.info("Setup of Solr index completed.");   
+        } catch (Throwable e) {
+            log.error("could not setup local solr server",e);
+        }
+       
+    }
+
+    
+    @Override
+    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) {       
+        
+    }
+    
+    public static SolrServer getSolrServer(ServletContext ctx){
+        return (SolrServer) ctx.getAttribute(LOCAL_SOLR_SERVER);
+    }
+    
+}