Dedication

To Iwona

For her infinite support and patience.

EB

To Judy, my wife

Thank you for giving me up for a year.

I love you forever.

And to my buddies Clancy and Molly.

JG

Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

1. Understanding Search Technology

Chapter 1. State of the art

Chapter 2. Getting started with Hibernate Search

2. Ending structural and synchronization mismatches

Chapter 3. Mapping simple data structures

Chapter 4. Mapping more advanced data structures

Chapter 5. Indexing: where, how, what, and when

3. Taming the retrieval mismatch

Chapter 6. Querying with Hibernate Search

Chapter 7. Writing a Lucene query

Chapter 8. Filters: cross-cutting restrictions

4. Performance and scalability

Chapter 9. Performance considerations

Chapter 10. Scalability: using Hibernate Search in a cluster

Chapter 11. Accessing Lucene natively

5. Native Lucene, scoring, and the wheel

Chapter 12. Document ranking

Chapter 13. Don���t reinvent the wheel

Appendix Quick reference

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

1. Understanding Search Technology

Chapter 1. State of the art

1.1. What is search?

1.1.1. Categorizing information

Preface