Chapter 11. Advanced Features
In this final chapter we are offering a smorgasbord of tips and tricks which might become useful as you dive deeper and deeper into Hibernate Search.
11.1. Accessing the SearchFactory
The
SearchFactory object keeps track of the underlying Lucene resources for Hibernate Search. It is a convenient way to access Lucene natively. The SearchFactory can be accessed from a FullTextSession:
Example 11.1. Accessing the SearchFactory
FullTextSession fullTextSession = Search.getFullTextSession(regularSession); SearchFactory searchFactory = fullTextSession.getSearchFactory();