Your use case works (with a class level bridge). Another one is to reverse the query author.firstname=Sue AND author.lastname=Smith and then do author.getBooks() :) Have you read Hibernate Search in Action ;P On 18 janv. 2010, at 21:04, Sanne Grinovero wrote: > Hello, > there's a limitation in Hibernate Search's capabilities of mapping > structured objects, > there's a good explanation of this problem here: > https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1001551 > > This is something I'm aware of since my first use of Search, I was > assuming you know about it? > I couldn't think of a good solution so far, besides the awful > workaround I suggested in the forums. > > Better ideas? > > Sanne > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev