Hibernate Search in Action: What kind of applications use Hibernate Search?

Hi Emmanuel and John,

had you any target applications in mind when you wrote the book?

Does Hibernate Search make sense for being used in a Reporting application?
[ December 10, 2008: Message edited by: Darya Akbari ]

Darya,

We had no specific applications in mind. Hibernate Search is a general purpose framework for providing full text search capabilities with database applications.

As far as reporting goes I don't think it would be a good fit. Remember, it was designed for fast searching.

Hope this helps.

As John said, Hibernate Search is quite general. I have seen it used in a lot of problems. Some of the common ones:
- search engine for e-commerce sites
- search engine for backend applications (admin, call center etc)
- used to save loads on the regular RDBMS database (either by replacing the query or by splitting the query into a full-text part and a relational part (and do an intersect)

Another cool thing that is poping up is the ability to full-text search objects in a JBoss Cache. Search for JBoss Cache Searchable. Basically hibernate Search is now independent of Hibernate and can index pretty much anything and listen to any event

Thanks for your explanations.