You need a parser one way or another to split words of your query 'java Hibernate' Should end up being 'Java' and 'Hibernate' Then from those you can do (by priority layer) Java AND Hibernate Java OR Hibernate Java~ OR Hibernate Java OR Hibernate~ etc If you reuse the Lucene query parser, you end up losing the ability to define those layers PS I haven't looked yet at the @Searchable framwork you did for the Wiki View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4075061#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...