Question

I am trying to configure hibernate search for my application by reading several web tutorials, the majority uses annotation but I uses xml mapping, also, many tutorial are saying to use spring and maven while I don’t uses these.

Can someone help and provide some starting point for configuring hibernate search, many web tutorial are not working for me

The application is a gwt application using gilead with hibernate on the back end

Answer 1

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/3.3/reference/en-US/html_single/#d0e43

Hibernate Search, however, has itself its own set of annotations (@Indexed, @DocumentId, @Field,…) for which there exists so far no alternative configuration.

I also remember seeing something like this in “Hibernate Search in Action”, where the author said that there’s not much demand for non-annotation configuration (I don’t have my copy now, so, I may be wrong). I guess that there is still not enough demand.

Note that Hibernate itself can be configured via XML, and I assume that you can mix both (XML for Hibernate mappings, annotations for Hibernate Search mappings).