thank you very much, I also would like to use it by maven but still didn't find the time to learn it. Real hibernate developers have other priorities I think... maybe you could contribute on it?
Would you like to repost your words to the hibernate developer's list at
hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org ?
I think you'll get more attention there, also some discussion should arise about it as solr isn't really a dependency but an optional dependency, depending on what you actually use of Search. I personally have no idea how this concept could be modeled in pom's.