diff --git a/app/pom.xml b/app/pom.xml
index 146aa1b83..a80eba6bd 100644
--- a/app/pom.xml
+++ b/app/pom.xml
@@ -308,23 +308,6 @@ limitations under the License.
             <version>${lucene.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
-            <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>
-            <version>9.1.1</version>
-            <!-- exclude vulnerable dependencies -->
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>netty-codec</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>netty-common</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-
         <!-- slf4j implementing the apache commons-logging interfaces -->
         <!-- note: commons-logging needs to be excluded in all dependencies transitive depending on it.
         See 2006 RFE https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-1977 for maven's missing feature of global exclusions -->
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/apache/roller/weblogger/business/search/solr/SolrIndexManager.java b/app/src/main/java/org/apache/roller/weblogger/business/search/solr/SolrIndexManager.java
deleted file mode 100644
index c71d7a9f0..000000000
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/apache/roller/weblogger/business/search/solr/SolrIndexManager.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- *  contributor license agreements.  The ASF licenses this file to You
- * under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
- * use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.  For additional information regarding
- * copyright in this work, please see the NOTICE file in the top level
- * directory of this distribution.
- */
-
-/* Created on March 8, 2023 */
-
-package org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.search.solr;
-
-import org.apache.roller.weblogger.WebloggerException;
-import org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.InitializationException;
-import org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.URLStrategy;
-import org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.search.IndexManager;
-import org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.search.SearchResultList;
-import org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.search.SearchResultMap;
-import org.apache.roller.weblogger.pojos.Weblog;
-import org.apache.roller.weblogger.pojos.WeblogEntry;
-
-public class SolrIndexManager implements IndexManager {
-    @Override
-    public void initialize() throws InitializationException {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void shutdown() {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void release() {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean isInconsistentAtStartup() {
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void addEntryIndexOperation(WeblogEntry entry) throws WebloggerException {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void addEntryReIndexOperation(WeblogEntry entry) throws WebloggerException {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void rebuildWeblogIndex(Weblog weblog) throws WebloggerException {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void rebuildWeblogIndex() throws WebloggerException {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void removeWeblogIndex(Weblog weblog) throws WebloggerException {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void removeEntryIndexOperation(WeblogEntry entry) throws WebloggerException {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public SearchResultList search(String term, String weblogHandle, String category, String locale, int pageNum, int entryCount, URLStrategy urlStrategy) throws WebloggerException {
-        return null;
-    }
-
-}