Hey all,
Does the existing Hibernate Search, or future plans, support a Solr lucene server for indexing?

The usecase is for keeping the index data up-to-date when it is updated outside of the Hibernate-annotated application.

*Updated by different application.
*Updated by ETL tools.

At least with the Solr server, a seperate tool could be run to update it's data, while I'm not sure about the existing Hibernate-Lucene data.

Comments?

-D

I always tried to keep Hibernate Search as agnostic as pragmatically possible wrt Lucene, so a Solr integration can be envisioned.
If someone wants to explore the idea, contact me.

That being said, your justification for using Solr is not good enough :)
You can index a data even if it has not been added or updated to the DB though Hibernate
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/search/reference/en/html_single/#search-batchindex

Also the idea of updating an index based on a timestamp or a version number crossed my mind, I might want to integrate such a feature to Hibernate Search in the future.