Glad I could help. Since this was not a problem with Hibernate Search itself, I'm going to close this ticket as Rejected.
Should you encounter other problems, feel free to ask for support on stackoverflow, with the "hibernate-search" tag: we monitor this tag and try to answer our best.

On a side note, you might be interested to know that we are working on a way to integrate with dependency injection mechanisms (such as Spring DI) so that field bridges can be injected with @Autowired or @Inject. Experimental support may come in version 5.8, if we can merge it in time. You can follow the progress on this ticket: HSEARCH-1316 Pull Request Sent .