[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Search and Bobo Browse

[Marc Schipperheyn]

Hi,

I would like to suggest an integration of Hibernate Search with Bobo Browse
(http://code.google.com/p/bobo-browse/). Bobo Browse is the open source
faceting engine developed by LinkedIn and AFAIC it's amazing. Even though
the documentation is sparse, the results are easy to achieve, flexible and
extremely fast.

It has one caveat, it relies on another open source project: Zoie to achieve
real time updated index/search results as by default it just opens an
IndexReader and is oblivious to changes in the underlying index until
reopened.

I've been looking at a way to have Hibernate Search manage the interaction
with the Index in order for Bobo to have updated results as the underlying
index changes (just like Zoie does). But frankly, I'm not too good at this
lower level stuff.

Anyway, would love to see this integration happen or some pointers on good
ways how to achieve this.

Cheers,

Marc