[hibernate-dev] New release of Hibernate Search / Annotations / EntityManager

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager 3.2.1.GA are out.

Hibernate Search, formerly known as Hibernate Lucene has received a lot 
of attention and a major redesign. Hibernate Search is essentially the 
ability to bring google-like (aka full-text) search to your domain model 
through Apache Lucene. Hibernate Search is part of Hibernate 
Annotations. What's new:
 - querying capability through the common org.hibernate.Query API: 
ability to process a Lucene query and retrieve managed objects
 - better built-in support for standard java type indexing
 - notion of field bridge to customize the property indexation process
 - metadata aligned on Apache Lucene 2
 - explicit object reindexing (useful for index creation)
 - transparent index batching: indexation is batched per transaction to 
maximize the speed and reduce the locking window
 - support for several entity types per index

Aside from Hibernate Search, this release is mostly bug fix oriented. A 
couple of interesting improvement though:
 - Support for SQL statement overriding
 - French translation of the documentation (Vincent Richard)
 - better support for many to one and composite keys
 - startup improvement
 - various Hibernate Validator bundle translations (thanks to the community)
 - better support for tools in Hibernate EntityManager
 - better support for non JavaEE application servers

Check it out http://www.hibernate.org/397.html