Book review: Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna

Over the last few days, I have been reading Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna published by Manning. I must admit, this is a much easier task than writing Hibernate Search in Action

Summary first: very easy to read, a gold mine of knowledge and tips on a subject that is essential to the life [...]

Answering questions at JavaRanch + free books

I am doing a session on Hibernate Search all this week at JavaRanch. Manning will give away free books of Hibernate Search in Action for the occasion.

If you have questions on Hibernate Search, express yourself

JBoss AS 5 is out, Hibernate Search 3.1, Devoxx is warming up and

Great news this week:

JBoss AS 5 is out. Congratulations to Dimitris and the many people in and out of JBoss who contributed to it.

Hibernate Search 3.1 is out. A lot of good stuffs like performance improvements at indexing and querying time and some cool new features like the analyzer declaration framework (allowing declarative phonetic, [...]

Hibernate Search 3.1 RefCard

DZone has a nice Hibernate Search 3.1 6-pages ref card. It is packed with:

The list of annotations and their descriptions
Hibernate Search’s main APIs
Lucene’s most useful query types
Quick examples involving mappings and API usage (including the new analyzer declaration framework)

It’s free but you need to register.

Speaking of the devil. John and I have given back our [...]

Book review and NHibernate Search

Ayende, one of the active bees behind the NHibernate portfolio, has a nice review of Hibernate Search in Action on his blog.

By the way, Ayende has ported Hibernate Search to .net : NHibernate.Search. I don’t think there is documentation specific to the project but the Hibernate Search documentation is just as useful.

I don’t know Ayende [...]

Hibernate Search book preview final review: hitting where it hurts for the better

We just had our third review of Hibernate Search in Action. Receiving this feedback has been a humble experience. Lot’s of good reviews (good) and some critical ones (even better). Every imperfection we left aside came back in the spot lights of our reviewers.

Based on this feedback, we have been working hard the last two [...]

Hibernate Search in Action: all chapters written

That’s now official, I handed over the last chapter to the publisher yesterday. All chapters will be available to the early access program in the next few days. The journey is not finished yet. A lot of reviewing and correction are at sight. If you have feedback, now is the time

The last last [...]

Two third of Hibernate Search in Action out!

We have just pushed another set of chapters for Hibernate Search in Action and reached the symbolic limit of 2/3. Yoohoo! We have also enhanced some of the existing chapters based on the feedbacks we received and the perseverance of our editor. They have just shipped as part of the early access program available in [...]

Hibernate Search in Action book

I am very please to announce that a book on Hibernate Search is on its way. John Griffin and I are co-authoring Hibernate Search in Action from Manning.

The goal of this book is to give a good practical understanding of Hibernate Search and guide people through the steps of adding full text search capability into [...]