Introduction to Hibernate Search Framework

Enterprise Search is becoming one of the common requirements of any consumer web application that we build these days. So I thought of learning some stuff in this domain. If you think about open source frameworks providing enterprise search functionality, probably Lucene is the one and only answer that comes to your mind. Lucene is a fully featured full text search engine library. Some other platforms and frameworks are developed that leverages core search functionality of Lucene.

Solr is one of such platforms that provide cool features like token highlighting, faceted search and many many more. Solr runs as a standalone search server and can be integrated into the applications using HTTP/XML API. Solr is typically used (or suggested to be used) when the underlying data that you are trying to index doesn’t change often.

Hibernate Search is a framework built on top of Lucene and Hibernate Core. In the following blog post, I would explain how to integrate Hibernate Search into your application.