Part 5. Native Lucene, scoring, and the wheel

In this final section of the book we will examine a veritable hodgepodge of topics.

Chapter 11 considers how to get to the native Lucene constructs that exist underneath of and are used by Hibernate Search. Chapter 12 discusses at length how documents are scored, utilizing the vector space model of information retrieval. A short discussion of document relevance is also included. Chapter 13 demonstrates some of the classes provided for you that were contributions from various sources and finishes with a lengthy discussion of how to index different document formats, such as Microsoft Word documents and XML files.

Following chapter 13 is an appendix, a quick reference guide of Hibernate Search artifacts. Here you can find annotations, APIs and Lucene query APIs, and where in the book the discussion is found.