When your Maven-based project includes the hibernate-search dependency, it automatically pulls over three dozen related dependencies for you. Unfortunately, JPA query support is not one of them. To use JPA-style queries, we must declare an extra hibernate-entitymanager dependency ourselves.

Its version needs to match the version of hibernate-core that is already in the dependency hierarchy. This will not always be in sync with the hibernate-search version.

Your IDE may offer a way to present the dependency hierarchy visually. Either way, you can always use Maven from the command line to get the same information with this command:

mvn dependency:tree

As shown in this output, Hibernate Search version 4.2.0.Final uses core Hibernate ORM version 4.1.9.Final. So a hibernate-entitymanager dependency should be added to the POM, using the same version as core:

...
<dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
   <version>4.1.9.Final</version>
</dependency>
...