Hey Sanne, Looks good. Could you tell me where I can find some information about the CDI and Spring improvements? Maybe there's something we could integrate into our extensions...

Thanks, Sebastian On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:34 PM Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)infinispan.org&gt; wrote: > TLDR: the new Search SPI requires using the "free form" types - but > don't expect to be able to take advantage of it just yet. > > Hi all, > > we just released Hibernate Search 5.8.0.Beta3 and it's meant to be our > last beta! > > Progress and pace are looking very good. > > The details of the release can be found on our blog [1] as usual, but > I'd like to call out on several changes relevant for Infinispan. > > First and foremost, know that we'll be working on 6.0 as next big > thing; at that stage the API will see a significant redesign, focused > on making Lucene an optional implementation detail. > > This makes this 5.8 significant for Infinispan as it's the last one > you'll have until you're ready to break API. > > We've been working hard on addressing the needs of Infinispan, but in > several cases we had to make - and will still make - dramatic changes > in the SPI. > > Some benefits relevant to you all: > - the "ram" directory changed name as you suggested just recently > - statistics now include index size (how large is it to store it) > - a proper API to define Analyzers programmatically, you could now > add "out of the box" default definitions for Infinispan server. > - the same for Normalizers (a new concept, see the blog [1]) > - tons of other improvements and bugfixes ;) such as: > -- better performance by finally being able to use JDK8 features > -- Java 9 compatibility > -- a critical performance improvement in Spatial bridges > -- better Spring and CDI improvements > > > # A new type system is coming ! > > And this is the main point.. however, it's not ready yet as it's a huge > change. > > The new type system - also named "free form" in all the meetings in > which we wished we had it - needs to start from the SPI and that's > partially included in this Beta. > (We postponed this for way too long by trying to match a good time to > break SPIs.. we'll just break it or it will never happen) > > I will soon send a PR to update Infinispan to *work fine* with the > current SPI changes, but I will refrain from refactoring anything yet, > so that we can validate it all in small steps. > > Still, many other existing SPI methods have been deprecated: > > As soon as that's merged, I'll need help to migrate away from all > those deprecated methods as I simply can't make progress on the Search > side without starting to delete a good amount of these deprecated > methods. > So please know this: most of those deprecated methods will be removed > from Hibernate Search soon; we can of course keep some of them around > if we identify strong needs, but identifying these points can only be > done by getting started. > > Please note that you can't yet plug-in a new type system to benefit > REST, Protobuf or other systems: > - several components still make assumptions about this being backed > by annotated POJOs > - there's no SPI yet to plugin alternative metadata > > There's also no API to extract indexed values from an alternative > system, although I'm sure you could keep using the current hacks for > this to work out: it's not possible to get this in 5.8 so it will have > to be 6+. > > Thanks, > Sanne > > 1 - http://in.relation.to/2017/06/13/hibernate-search-5-8-0-Beta3/ > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev > -- SEBASTIAN ŁASKAWIEC INFINISPAN DEVELOPER Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev