Chapter 2. Getting started with Hibernate Search

This chapter covers
  • What is Hibernate Search?
  • How to set up and configure Hibernate Search
  • An introduction to mapping your domain model
  • An introduction to indexing your data
  • An introduction to doing full-text queries
  • How to use Luke

In the chapter 1, we discussed difficulties of integrating a full-text search engine such as Apache Lucene into a Java application centered on a domain model and using Hibernate or Java Persistence to persist data. More specifically, we saw three mismatches:

  • Structural mismatch— How to convert the object domain into the text-only index; how to deal with relations between objects in the index.
  • Synchronization mismatch— How to keep the database and the index synchronized ...

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