anonymous wrote : What do you mean by "automatic"? here I mean something like "Generate Hibernate/JPA annotations" in Hibernate Tools. Of cause it is rather difficult to define correct places for the Field annotation - here I propose generate it only for Strings fields as a first step. anonymous wrote : you refer to an interface update to the luke tools? what's wrong with being tightly coupled to Lucene for a tool like this? that is right. Luke is a good tool exactly for Lucene, Lucene is a good index search tool, but there are several other and if they will get a common switch in common interface, the developers could select the best index search tool for their needs. As I think this will not add too much complexity, but will give a real flexibility like Hibernate has with plenty DBMS. anonymous wrote : A practical use case? As I think it be useful for development if there are several indexes for different purposes - it could be a big index for production with milions of documents/items and several small one for different test corpora, it is possible to have situation, when there is a sense to have several indexes for a one project, etc. And it seems useful if be possible to view information about index, optimize index, enter search expresions with content assistance proposals. And use Eclipse/JBoss tools for this as a one environment for development. Is it answer the question or? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4203250#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...