Lucene feedback from Atlassian JIRA and Confluence

Mike Cannon-Brookes from Atlassian has posted (some moons ago) two interesting presentations related to Lucene and Atlassian’s feedbacks from Confluence and JIRA.My favorite is the first one: Lucene: Generic Data Indexing. It’s a nice introduction to the benefits of Full Text search engines, as well as the gotchas you will face.I found their use … [...]

Demo of JBoss Seam DVD Store powered by Hibernate Search

Many asked me if the DVD Store demo powered by Hibernate Search that I ran at JavaOne was available online.The answer is not yet, but it will. My plan is to package it nicely and release it when the beta 2 of Hibernate Search is out.This will hopefully happen fairly soon. JavaOne being behind … [...]

Hibernate Search and JSR-303 at JavaOne

I will be presenting Hibernate Search at JavaOne.I will be demoing a live migration of the JBoss Seam DVD Store application from a classic SQL based search engine onto Hibernate Search with Google-like search capabilities. If your user pressures you for a decent and useful search feature or your DBA asks you not to … [...]