Hi Sanne,
I see no reasons to not enable it by default, following the same
activation rules of other Hibernate dependencies: it's very
conservative about not auto-enabling itself when not needed.
It is OK as long as it will be still possible to bundle Hibernate Search
within an application and Hibernate would use the bundled version of
Hibernate Search.
Not all users want to use Hibernate and Hibernate Search,
which are delivered with WildFly.
For Hibernate we have a perfect solution developed by Scott, which
allows WildFly to use Hibernate packaged inside of an application.
At this place a big thanks to Scott for this wonderful solution! It works great!
The same should be possible with Hibernate Search.
Best regards,
Andrej Golovnin