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Hibernate version: 3.0.1

Hello everyone,
I am interested if someone have tried to use hibernate search in a cluster with the Lucene back end. How should hibernate search be configured in this case (must e.g. NativeFSLockFactory be used)?

The documentation of hibernate search, section Architecture Lucene says, quote:
I am asking this, because in clustered environments where the directory store is shared, Lucene does not support parallel index modification from different processes( see the Lucene FAQ here ). I suppose the author has meant the master - slave approach with a single hibernate search master node and many hibernate search slave nodes, as the one and only configuration. I personally find this a limitation, since not all cluster configurations (in case of ActiveMQ) are supported.

Hibernate search would scale very easy if the Solr back end was supported. Are there any plans to support this back end? (In my opinion the out-of-the-box clustering is a strong argument for its support)

Thank you in advance.

That would be very interesting indeed. Writing a new backend for Hibernate Search is quite easy stuff and the interface is self-explanatory; if you have some Solr experience you could try making one. Emmanuel takes decisions here, I will ping him, but I'm sure already he would be happy to include such a contribution in the distro.

If you want to take a look to the current Lucene backend, look to the trunk version as it has just been simplified a lot (removed a lot of code since 3.1.0).

Ops, sorry, wrong thread!