[hibernate-dev] Projecting an index

I'm wondering if would be conceivable to project a custom index based on the programmatic API when you are also using Annotations? Our use case is basically that we have a social "wall" where we retrieve "posts" which can reference related objects: other posts, user info, classifieds, events, groups, etc. In most cases, we'll reference these with a title, url, description and photo. Additionally, each object can have a specific property, such as an event having a startDate and an RSVP. We don't store this information directly in the post index because changes in them could affect a large number of posts and have undesired performance impacts We are avoiding to load stuff from the database because of the load each retrieval could generate and are basically loading as much as possible from the index. One alternative approach would be to use the index to load post ids and then load the posts as is from the database = large number of queries through lazy initialization. We went the pure index way. In order to load all this information each load of a list of posts requires some preloading and some iterations to first load the posts and then load related objects from their own indices. This kind of staggered approach offers some nice caching opportunities. But ideally, I would like to have a limited flattened index that contains all the related data for a post, but that does allow me to automatically update data in it if the underlying object changes. ideally, I would like to store in that index something like this object class id title url description photo [custom fields] I'm curious if something like this would be achievable with HSearch?