Hello, compass version 2.1 has been released:
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51688 cheers Jonas Vincent Massol wrote: > I think it would be nice to look at Compass > (http://www.compass-project.org/overview.html > ) or Hibernate Search (http://www.hibernate.org/410.html) for the > future. > > I think Compass is better for us since we don't want to rely on > Hibernate for our storage in the future. > > Here are some features of Compass: > > " > - Simple Compass provides a simple API for working with Lucene. If you > know how to use an ORM, then you will feel right at home with Compass > with simple operations for save, and delete & query. > - Lucene Building on top of Lucene, Compass simplifies common usage > patterns of Lucene such as google-style search, index updates as well > as more advanced concepts such as caching and index sharding (sub > indexes). Compass also uses built in optimizations for concurrent > commits and merges. > - Mapping Compass provides support for mapping of different data > "formats" - indexing and storing (caching) them in the Search Engine: > Object to Search Engine Mapping (using annotations or xml), XML to > Search Engine Mapping (using simple xpath expressions), and the low > level Resource to Search Engine Mappping. > - Tx Compass provides a transactional API on top of the Search Engine > supporting different transaction isolation levels. Externally, Compass > provides a local transaction manager as well as integration with > external transaction managers such as JTA (Sync and XA), Spring, and > ORM ones. > - ORM Compass integrates seamlessly with most popular ORM frameworks > allowing automatic mirroring, to the index, of the changes in data > performed via the ORM tool. Compass has generic support for JPA as > well as embedded support for Hibernate, OpenJPA, TopLink Essentials, > and EclipseLink allow to add Compass using three simple steps. > - Spring Compass integrates seamlessly with Spring. Compass can be > easily configured using Spring, integrates with Spring transaction > management, has support for Spring MVC, and has Spring aspects built > in for reflecting operations to the search engine. > - Distributed Compass simplifies the creation of distributed Lucene > index by allowing to store the Lucene index in a database, as well as > storing the index simply with Data Grid products such as GigaSpaces, > Coherence and Terracotta. > " > > The last point is especially important for our distributed lucene > searcg feature developed during the GSOC. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

