Let's make things a little more interesting now. Assume that one of your indexed book entities has the title "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" and you want to get hits for all of the following queries: "refactor", "refactors", "refactored" and "refactoring". In Lucene this can be achieved by choosing an analyzer class which applies word stemming during the indexing as well as search process. Hibernate Search offers several ways to configure the analyzer to use (see Section 4.1.5, “Analyzer”):

When using the @Analyzer annotation one can either specify the fully qualified classname of the analyzer to use or one can refer to an analyzer definition defined by the @AnalyzerDef annotation. In the latter case the Solr analyzer framework with its factories approach is utilized. To find out more about the factory classes available you can either browse the Solr JavaDoc or read the corresponding section on the Solr Wiki. Note that depending on the chosen factory class additional libraries on top of the Solr dependencies might be required. For example, the PhoneticFilterFactory depends on commons-codec.

In the example below a StandardTokenizerFactory is used followed by two filter factories, LowerCaseFilterFactory and SnowballPorterFilterFactory. The standard tokenizer splits words at punctuation characters and hyphens while keeping email addresses and internet hostnames intact. It is a good general purpose tokenizer. The lowercase filter lowercases the letters in each token whereas the snowball filter finally applies language specific stemming.

Generally, when using the Solr framework you have to start with a tokenizer followed by an arbitrary number of filters.

package example;
...
@Entity
@Indexed
@AnalyzerDef(name = "customanalyzer",
  tokenizer = @TokenizerDef(factory = StandardTokenizerFactory.class),
  filters = {
    @TokenFilterDef(factory = LowerCaseFilterFactory.class),
    @TokenFilterDef(factory = SnowballPorterFilterFactory.class, params = {
      @Parameter(name = "language", value = "English")
    })
  })
public class Book {

  @Id
  @GeneratedValue
  @DocumentId
  private Integer id;
  
  @Field(index=Index.TOKENIZED, store=Store.NO)
  @Analyzer(definition = "customanalyzer")
  private String title;
  
  @Field(index=Index.TOKENIZED, store=Store.NO)
  @Analyzer(definition = "customanalyzer")
  private String subtitle; 

  @IndexedEmbedded
  @ManyToMany 
  private Set<Author> authors = new HashSet<Author>();

  @Field(index = Index.UN_TOKENIZED, store = Store.YES)
  @DateBridge(resolution = Resolution.DAY)
  private Date publicationDate;
  
  public Book() {
  } 
  
  // standard getters/setters follow here
  ... 
}