Developing Java applications accessing data from Solr [http://lucene.apache.org/solr/] is easier with spring-data-solr [https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/solr/docs/current/reference/html/]. You can just use Repository interfaces, auto generated findBy... methods or @Query [https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/solr/docs/current/reference/html/#repositories.query-methods.