New release of Hibernate Search / Annotations / EntityManager
by Emmanuel Bernard
Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager 3.2.1.GA are out.
Hibernate Search, formerly known as Hibernate Lucene has received a lot
of attention and a major redesign. Hibernate Search is essentially the
ability to bring google-like (aka full-text) search to your domain model
through Apache Lucene. Hibernate Search is part of Hibernate
Annotations. What's new:
- querying capability through the common org.hibernate.Query API:
ability to process a Lucene query and retrieve managed objects
- better built-in support for standard java type indexing
- notion of field bridge to customize the property indexation process
- metadata aligned on Apache Lucene 2
- explicit object reindexing (useful for index creation)
- transparent index batching: indexation is batched per transaction to
maximize the speed and reduce the locking window
- support for several entity types per index
Aside from Hibernate Search, this release is mostly bug fix oriented. A
couple of interesting improvement though:
- Support for SQL statement overriding
- French translation of the documentation (Vincent Richard)
- better support for many to one and composite keys
- startup improvement
- various Hibernate Validator bundle translations (thanks to the community)
- better support for tools in Hibernate EntityManager
- better support for non JavaEE application servers
Check it out http://www.hibernate.org/397.html
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