This is an example application of my blog post:

Running Solr with Maven - http://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/maven/running-solr-with-maven/

CONFIGURATION:

- Open profiles/dev/config.properties
- Set the value of solr.home.directory property
- Update the Solr schema if necessary (this one haa a custom schema)

RUN:

- Run either mvn jetty:run or mvn:jetty:run-war
- Open browser and go to url: http://localhost:8983/solr/