I am running jboss4.2.3.GA and I am having problems getting hibernate search to work.

Looking at the compatibility matrix I think with jboss4.2.3.GA I need to use hibernate-search version 3.0.1. (I may upgrade later but I would like to get a small example working first).

I downloaded version 3.0.1 and put the jar in the jboss lib directory. Started jboss and I did not see anything out of the ordinary.

Am I missing something, or is all I really need to do for jboss is deploy the hibernate-search.jar?

Hi,

it might be that you have to enable automatic indexing by adding the appropriate event listeners. Normally this happens automatically when you use Hibernate Annotations, but depending on the Annotations version in your container it might not happen.

If this does not help, can you provide your indexing and search code? Does the index directory get created? If so Hibernate Search gets at least bootstrapped. If not it is a good sign that the event listeners are not working.

--Hardy

No index file is even created.

Hi,

Since not even the index directories beneath indexBase are getting created I would assume that the registration of the listeners is not working. I recommend to add the listeners manually to the configuration as per documentation.

--Hardy

I have a jar file with my entities and META-INF/persistence.xml. I tried placing the config file at the root of the jar and also in the META-INF directory with the persistence.xml. Neither place looks to have worked, as I cannot see any log messages about hibernate picking up that file and parsing it.

Any other ideas?

Hi,

you can add the listener configuration directly to peristence.xml:

META-INF is the right place to ave persistence.xml.

Regarding auto registration. You need a 3.3.x version of Annotations for this to work. Annotations should print a version string into the log files. Check the version number there. I could imagine that you are having conflicting jar files in your JBoss installation. Maye there is a older Annotations version in your shared lib directory. That used to be a quite common problem.

--Hardy

Are those the only three listeners I can add to my persistence.xml?

Yes, this are the only listeners you need for this version of Hibernate Search.