Skip to Content
Professional Java for Web Applications
book

Professional Java for Web Applications

by Nicholas S. Williams
March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
29h 2m
English
Wrox
Content preview from Professional Java for Web Applications

Chapter 23Searching for Data with JPA and Hibernate Search

  • Searching basics
  • How to locate objects with advanced criteria
  • Using full-text indexes with JPA
  • Using Apache Lucene and Hibernate Search to index your data

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

You can find the wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at http://www.wrox.com/go/projavaforwebapps on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:

  • Advanced-Criteria
  • Customer-Support-v17 Project
  • Search-Engine Project

NEW MAVEN DEPENDENCY FOR THIS CHAPTER

In addition to the Maven dependencies introduced in previous chapters, you also need the following Maven dependency only for the section that covers Apache Lucene, Hibernate Search, and the Search-Engine project.

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-search-orm</artifactId>
            <version>4.5.0.Final</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>

AN INTRODUCTION TO SEARCHING

Searching through data takes many different forms. You might use a tool like grep, find, Agent Ransack, Spotlight, or Windows Search to locate a file on your hard drive. You could look for matching filenames or matching file contents. Perhaps most familiar to you, searching might involve opening your web browser and using a popular search tool such as Google to find content on the Internet. Or maybe you have a Gmail account and you use the search bar at the top of a Gmail page to find e-mails and create filters ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java™ Web Applications

Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java™ Web Applications

Naci Dai, Lawrence Mandel, Arthur Ryman
Beginning EJB in Java EE 8: Building Applications with Enterprise JavaBeans

Beginning EJB in Java EE 8: Building Applications with Enterprise JavaBeans

Jonathan Wetherbee, Massimo Nardone, Chirag Rathod, Raghu Kodali
Java Web Services

Java Web Services

David A Chappell, Tyler Jewell

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781118909317Purchase book