Can I use Hibernate Search without annotations (Using hbm.xml files instead) ?



If yes:

can someone give me an example hbm.xml file with a class @Indexed and some fields @Field ?




If no:

Can I generate annotations from my hbm.xml files with hbm2java?

I cant use <meta attribute="scope-class"> or any of the others. No "class-annotations" or "property-annotations" exist!

The answer is no to both.
But the mechanism to read metadata from XML is ready, it only lacks a motivated person to define the XML schema and write an XML parser for it.

FRT Hibernate Annotations use this solution and it's one (big) class.

Note that some people use hbm.xml files and Hibernate Search annotations together without any issue

It would be great to see a xml version of Search... imagine a class mapped through hib annotations + validator annotations + search annotations, you would be like "man, what tha hell happened to this class?!?! isn't this supposed to be a pojo?". IMO the only suitable annotations are the validators cause they at least have some relationship to business logic, the rest should stay in xml.

Regards,
Thiago Souza

The mechanism is in place but nobody spend time to design the XML schema and write a parser for it: if you are interested.

I'm more like: "Man another XML to learn, isn't it supposed to be easy?"