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 … [...]

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. … [...]

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 … [...]

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 … [...]

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 … [...]

Hibernate Search – cool, but is it the right approach? Year baby!

Sanjiv Jivan wrote a blog entry questioning the “point” of Hibernate Search. He missed some critical steps in his argumentation, that I am willing to correct. I started to answer on his blog, but the answer being fairly long, I opted for a blog entry.I think Sanjiv failed to understand which population Hibernate Search … [...]

Hibernate Search freshly baked features

I had to release Hibernate Search Beta3 early after we discovered a fairly severe bug in Beta2. But I had time to inject some new features. After those introduced in Beta2, that a fairly good week :) batch size limit on object indexingIf you don’t pay attention when initially indexing (or reindexing) your data, you … [...]

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 … [...]