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- A Fresh Copy of the DSpace Trunk
Code Block svn checkout http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/trunk/ dspace-trunk
- The Discovery Module
Code Block svn checkout http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/modules/dspace-discovery/trunk/ dspace-discovery
Reference
For reference, look at the Dryad project as that is using the discovery layer If you want see Discovery in action and try it out live, the Dryad Repository has discovery instead of artifact browse. You can also browse their Google Code which has the source of their customizations.
Overview
Have both projects checked out to the same root projects folder. You will not have to modify dspace-discovery at all, but the patch will enable the dspace-trunk to use some features of dspace services, and include other libraries such as org.apache.solr that are needed.
The discovery module essentially adds an additional core to solr. Existing was statistics, the new core is search.
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