2 quick questions:

1) I am using Hibernate Search with a JPA implementation. When specifying the "hibernate.search.default.indexBase" property in my persistence.xml, what is the directory relative to? In a web application, is it relative to the application root? In a TestNG test, is it relative to the directory of the test class?

2) I am new to both Hibernate Search and Lucene. I read in the Lucene documentation that all logical operators are to be all caps like AND, OR, etc. Is this a requirement when handing a query to Hibernate Search, or does Hibernate Search relax this?

Thanks for any insight.

1. It will depend on your app server. Give it a test.
For TestNG, it will be the "current" directory where the VM has been started

I usually use absolute path

2. If you use the Lucene query parser, then same requirement applies, if you write your own (or change the Lucene one), you can relax that. However I expect most people to use the Lucene query programmatic API to build the query rather than use the Lucene query parser, at least for anything moderately complex

Thanks for the quick reply...and from the project lead no less. Now that is what I call fast service!

I will use an absolute directory for the indexes, and I will take a look at the Lucene query programmatic API.

Seriously, Emmanuel, thanks.