SolrJ core admin - can it share server objects with queries?

[Shawn Heisey <so...@elyograg.org>]

I have a SolrJ application that uses the core admin as well as doing 
queries against each core.  I have an object of my own design for each 
core that uses SolrJ directly.  Two of my core objects (one for build 
and one for live) are used in an object that represents a shard, and 
multiple shard objects are used in an object that represents an entire 
index chain.

Within the core object, I am currently creating two solr server 
objects.  One has the URL ending in "/solr" and is used for 
CoreAdminRequest.  The other includes the core name and is used for 
updates/queries.  I have taken steps to share the first server object 
between core objects when the host and port are the same.

My question - could I use one server object for both of these, or am I 
doing things correctly?  I guess it comes down to whether or not there 
is any way to specify a core when doing queries or updates.  I have not 
been able to see a way to do it.  If there is a way, I could reduce the 
number of server objects that my program uses.

Currently there are two index chains, each of which has seven shards.  
With two cores per shard, the program builds 28 server objects for 
queries.  Since I have four servers, I also end up with four shared 
server objects for CoreAdminRequest.  If there's a way to specify the 
core for queries, I would only need those four shared objects.  If such 
a capability doesn't already exist, should I file a jira issue?

Thanks,
Shawn