replaced pinging script

pingsolr.js

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+function ping(url) {
+	var request = new ActiveXObject('MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0');
+	request.open('GET', url, false);
+	try {
+		request.send();
+		return request.status == 200;
+	} catch (e) {
+		return false;
+	}
+}
+function pingUntilOK(url) {
+	for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
+		if (ping(url))
+			return true;
+	return false;
+}
+WScript.Echo('Waiting for Solr to start up...');
+if (!pingUntilOK('http://localhost:8983/solr')) {
+	WScript.Echo('Solr did not start up successfully. Please see the log.');
+	WScript.Quit(1);
+}
+
+WScript.Echo('Waiting for web app to start up...');
+if (!pingUntilOK('http://localhost:8082')) {
+	WScript.Echo('Web app did not start up successfully. Please see the log.');
+	WScript.Quit(1);
+}
+WScript.Quit(0);

runsample.bat

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ md logs
 start java -jar start.jar
 cd ..
 start tools\cassini\cassini.exe "%cd%\SampleSolrApp" 8082
-ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 -w 2000 > nul
-tools\curl -I -m5 http://localhost:8983/solr >nul
-tools\curl -I -m5 http://localhost:8082 >nul
+cscript /nologo pingsolr.js
 start http://localhost:8082/
 exit