I am currently using Hibernate Search 3.1.1 GAWell there's your issue. There was a change between 3.1.0 and 3.1.1. So that's why we've switched the Infinispan dependency back to 3.1.0.A fix has been made in HS trunk, and that works fine. On the Infinispan side, at least we're just waiting on the next release of Hibernate Search so we can update our dependencies.