This can be mixed as in one entity is defined in annotation and an other programmatically. As far as mixing configuration in the same entity, it's theoretically possible but usually very painful to code (and rules are hard to make intuitive). If anyone is interested after my initial work, we can add support for this. On  Apr 11, 2009, at 19:43, Sanne Grinovero wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering if the new programmatic configuration of Hibernate > Search you're working on is going to be a complete alternative > (either-or) to the configure-by-annotations way or if they could be > complimentary. > Will it be possible to make some changes to the configuration created > by annotation scanning in a programmatic way? > > Got to this train of thought after readin this forum post: > http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=996359 > > Sanne