Welcome to Hibernate Search! The following chapter will guide you through the initial steps required to integrate Hibernate Search into an existing Hibernate enabled application. In case you are a Hibernate new timer we recommend you start here.
Table 1.1. System requirements
| Java Runtime | A JDK or JRE version 5 or greater. You can download a Java Runtime for Windows/Linux/Solaris here. |
| Hibernate Search | hibernate-search.jar and all runtime
dependencies from the lib directory of the
Hibernate Search distribution. Please refer to
README.txt in the lib directory to understand
which dependencies are required.
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| Hibernate Core | This instructions have been tested against Hibernate 3.3.x.
You will need hibernate-core.jar and its
transitive dependencies from the lib directory
of the distribution. Refer to README.txt in the
lib directory of the distribution to determine
the minimum runtime requirements.
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| Hibernate Annotations | Even though Hibernate Search can be used without Hibernate Annotations the following instructions will use them for basic entity configuration (@Entity, @Id, @OneToMany,...). This part of the configuration could also be expressed in xml or code. However, Hibernate Search itself has its own set of annotations (@Indexed, @DocumentId, @Field,...) for which there exists so far no alternative configuration. The tutorial is tested against version 3.4.x of Hibernate Annotations. |
You can download all dependencies from the Hibernate download site. You can also verify the dependency versions against the Hibernate Compatibility Matrix.