Scott Reynolds has been keeping a big juicy secret. As the maintainer of the Apache Solr Views module

For the last six months, Scott Reynolds has been keeping a big juicy secret. As the
maintainer of the Apache Solr Views module, he knows just how cool the future of Drupal
Search is going to be. His module, based on an idea and code from Thomas Seidl, lets you
make custom searches against the Solr index the same way you currently make views against
the MySQL database.