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I used this howto for setting up Tomcat to provide the Solr service while using the out of the box Tomcat6 from the normal Ubuntu channels. I'm using Jaunty. I've highlighted a couple of things in the process.

"Drupal's multi-site hosting capability is built in with any installation. This is great news for users who run numerous web sites from a single hosting account. A single Drupal installation can be used to run multiple domains, which makes it much easier to manage and maintain the code base. Even if you are dealing with only one domain, the multi-site capability may be valuable by providing the ability to run a separate domain or sub-domain for a development version. This page describes the set-up of the /sites directory for multi-sites."

"This module will display a view of images using the ImageFlow JavaScript plugin available from http://finnrudolph.de/ImageFlow. ImageFlow is a picture gallery, which allows an intuitive image handling. The basic idea is to digitally animate the thumbing through a physical image stack. That intuitive handling is automatically caused by the metaphorical use of the well known process of thumbing through. This solution is known as the Cover Flow technique, which has been developed by the artist Andrew Coulter Enright. Now - after it has been bought by Apple - it is used in iTunes and the file browser of Apples OSX."

These days large scale organizations are providing custom-designed applications to suit the needs of the vast mobile community spread across the world. Internet giants like Facebook and Twitter have rolled out customized applications to provide for a great user experience. All of it makes sense because of the rapid advancement in mobile technology and the growing user base especially in developing countries.