I'm using Hibernate Search 3.0.0Beta4 with matching versions of Hibernate Annotations and EntityManager, with Glassfish v2rc6.

In my application I do a bulk update via EJB 3.0 JPA, updating a table whose objects are indexed by Hibernate Search. When I to a Hibernate Search query for the updated objects, I get the pre-updated values. I use @Field(index = org.hibernate.search.annotations.Index.UN_TOKENIZED, store = Store.YES) to store these values in the full text index.

I assume that this is correct operation for Hibernate Search (although I hadn't considered this beforehand). I just wanted someone who knows this well to confirm that there is indeed no way to get Hibernate Search to index changes to objects when doing a bulk update, (i.e. UPDATE User u SET u.firstName = "jo")

If there is some way to do this, it will save me some extra work. Much appreciate the guidance.

Cheers,

There is no automatic way since bilk operations are database only.
However, if you know the objects ids your bulk operation targets, you can use ftSession.index() to reindex the objects that have been updated behind Hibernate's back.

Emmanuel,

Thanks. That's about what I thought. I very much appreciate the quick reply.