Cassandra-0.7.0 and Hector.

*sigh*...midnight ...and I have tons of coding tomorrow at 6am!

Anyway hope this helps someone..

When connecting to Apache-cassandra-0.7.0-beta2 use Hector-0.6.0.17 and not the other connection crap using sockets,etc(in the test cases,sources and samples.).....it will hang when trying to getKeyspace.

sooo,its something like this...

CassandraClientPool pool = CassandraClientPoolFactory.INSTANCE.get(); 
        CassandraClient client = pool.borrowClient(localhost, 9160);        
        Cassandra.Iface  cassandraClient = client.getCassandra();

Just to note this only work when using Hector to connection to Cassandra...
I am working on a project that requires 'real-time' indexing/searching so "Lucandra" was my obvious choice!
as of right now Lucandra-0.7 works ONLY with

Apache-cassandra-0.7.0-beta1 and NOT beta2... Also stop the 'connection' pool insanity and trust me, you want to modify the source to use Hector-0.6.0.17 just remember you have to set the keyspace after you create a Cassandra client.

cassandraClient.set_keyspace("Lucandra");