[hibernate-dev] New release of Hibernate Search / Annotations / EntityManager

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