Welcome to G2One

Yesterday was the official public birth of G2One, a new company dedicated to Groovy and Grails training, consulting and support. I am happy to see Guillaume (Groovy lead) and Graeme (Grails lead) jumping into the Professional OpenSource bandwagon. Good luck to you guys, it is as stressful as exciting :) Speaking of it, I will … [...]

Release Candidate for Hibernate Search 3.0.0

Release Candidate for Hibernate Search 3.0.0Hibernate Search 3.0.0.CR1 is now out. This release is mainly the last bits of new features and polishing before the final version. The next cycle will be dedicated to bug fixes (of any bug that pops up), as well as test suite and documentation improvements.Thanks to Hardy for the … [...]

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 … [...]

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 … [...]