after we get the result back as a list of objects(they are domain objects, right?) how can we investigate their the hits(relevancy)? I am expecting each object will have different hits in which they are ordered. But since they are domain objects i couldn't think of a way to access their hits unless there are some kind of other seach that return a collection of sorted results?

Can anyone shed some lights?

Hi hr,
The solution today is to do the query in native Lucene.
I will provide something in the future but I haven't thought through this problem, proposal welcome :-)
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HSEARCH-6

Hi,

Just to share some thoughts:

I have a similar need. For me a more "open access" to Lucene APIs would be great. Perhaps it is possible to use Lucene directly, similar to how one can go directly to SQL in cases where it is really needed. If this is possible, some hints on problems/solutions in documentation would be great.

In my case I eventually would like to extend Lucene substantially by combining it with some other techniques. For example, using vector-space-weights on terms with statistical methods and so forth.

For those cases one really like to have access to Lucene, for example Hits-objects.

B R Lars

ContextHelper.getSearchFactory(session).getDirectoryProvider(entityClass).getDirectory()

gives you the Lucene Directory. From here you can do what ever pleases you :-)