In this chapter, we learned about the relationship between Hibernate ORM, the Hibernate Search add-on, and the underlying Lucene search engine. We saw how to map entities and fields to make them available for searching. We used the Hibernate Search DSL to write a full-text search query across multiple fields, and worked with the results as we would during a normal database query. We used an automated build process to compile our application, and deployed it to a web server with a live database.

With these tools alone, we could incorporate Hibernate Search right now into many real-world applications, using any other server or database. In the next chapter, we will dive deeper into the options that Hibernate Search makes available for mapping entity objects to Lucene indexes. We will see how to handle an expanded data model, associating our VAPORware apps with devices and customer reviews.