Hi,
I have the need to index POJOs easily in lucene, however the POJO's do NOT need to be stored in a traditional database fronted by hibernate.

Rather than coding my own custom indexer using Lucene, I would love to just be able to use Hibernate Search's lucene annotations so I can just dump a POJO off to hibernate search to be indexed (and likewise searched for later).

However when reading the docs it seems that hibernate search is tied to the core which wants to manage the pojo in a hibernate managed database.

Can I use Hibernate Search just for the indexing/search functionality without having hibernate talk to a RDBMS?

thanks!

Hi borfnodol,
right, currently Hibernate Search is tied to Hibernate core. There are intentions to de-glue them, and code is improving in that direction but there's still much work to do.

You might give a look into JBoss Cache Searchable: http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/JBo ... Searchable
In this project the Hibernate Search mapping and backend was readapted to index objects stored in the JBoss Cache.

Alternatively you could fix the sources, but that would need a fair amount of work. Patches are welcome and if you show up on the developer mailing list you'll get all needed directions.

borfnodol: Did you find any suitable solution to this problem?