[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Search 3.5 or 4

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On 11 mai 2011, at 18:46, Sanne Grinovero wrote:

> Hello,
> To conclude this thread, there are still three notes "being discussed"
> on the wiki:
> http://community.jboss.org/wiki/PlansforHibernateSearch4
> 
> 1) assume exclusive_index_use=true as default
> That was my proposal, I'm not sure we're all agreeing on that.
> Emmanuel was concerned for the index safety but I replied that it
> doesn't remove locking.

I'm fine with it I guess.

> 
> 2) Make it possible to configure different backends per index (there
> can currently be only one backend
> Another proposal, the wiki points out the 3 main reasons to do that:
>    * tune different backends for different purposes
>    * make it possible to have sync / async on different entities/indexes.
>    * use different clustering/replication options or even
> technologies per index

ok

> 
> 3)Service instances
> for the public extensions points sometimes it's useful to pass
> instances instead of mere classnames to a SearchConfiguration
>    * Infinispan Query would love it to pass a self-built Directory
> factory so that Search could use that to store indexes on the same
> Infinispan instance (instead of starting a second cluster).

SearchConfiguration.getProvidedServices() is here for that. Simply populate it accordingly in ISPN.

> 
> So if we clarify this plan I'd like to start filling up JIRAs, we can
> then mark the most urgent ones for the next alpha and try making a
> plan.

+1

> 
> We especially need to coordinate on some of the issues, as if one of
> us is going to change all package names while the other rewrites the
> indexmanager, that creates some work we could avoid.
> 
> Sanne