I recently implemented Hibernate Search. In the indexBase directory a subdirectory matching the fully qualified name of the hibernate search annotated entity class was created. This subdirectory contains the following files, can some explain what these files are and their role in the index?
Also, does anyone know how to specify the name of the index rather than relying on the fully qualified name as the default index name?

You can override the default name of the index by using the index attribute on the Indexed annotation. For example:


As for your first question I would recommend reading the following:

http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_0_0/fileformats.html

The link provides an explaination to the core concepts of the files generated by Lucene.


Hope that helps.

Amiin

Thanks a bunch. I guess I mis-read the Hibernate Search documentation, because I thought the "name" not the "index" attribute set the directory name of the index. Also, the Lucene file format link helped me understand the core files of the index.