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Hey guys,

Been quite a while since my last blog but here's an important one. If you thought that you couldn't get enough presents from Santa or you're loving the January sales, well it's getting better now. JBoss Cache Searchable has just got its first GA.

I just want to specify now that you have to pass in your class array when creating your searchable cache. Otherwise it breaks due to changes made in Hibernate Search 3.1.0.Beta and GA.

Apart from that, nothing different externally - go out and download it from sourceforge and tell us all about it on the forums. If you need to, have a look at the wiki or the API documentation.

I know that several people are keen to know about a searchable-pojo cache. A quick update is that I'm working on that and should have a release out soon. I will keep you posted, so watch this space.

Thanks and happy new year!
Navin.

Posted by Navin Surtani at 22:33 1 comments  

Labels: GA, jbcs, searchable, searchable cache

Hello hello all, I come out of the darkness for the first time in a couple of weeks: -

As the title suggests, the first release candidate for JBoss Cache Searchable is up and running - download here. Some of you who are more inquisitive might be wondering what's actually changed from Beta 1.

Here's what's new. The 2 iterator methods on CacheQuery - iterator() and lazyIterator() - both can be called with integer parameters. Your fetchSize - your object buffer. This doesn't mean that the method calls with no parameters won't work, that just delegates to the method with parameters and gives a default parameter of 1. If you're more interested and want to dig deeper, have a look on fisheye.

As usual, have a play around and if there are any problems, you can find me on the forums.

On the horizon, I'm looking at releasing a version of the searchable-cache that depends on JBoss Cache 3.0.0. Personally, I'm quite excited to see how searchable-cache performance will change when it's depending on 3.0.0. I will keep you updated :).

Thanks for listening,
Navin.

Posted by Navin Surtani at 18:45 0 comments  

Labels: cache, hibernate search, lucene, search, searchable, searchable cache

Some of you who may have read this blog a few weeks ago might have been excited to hear about JBoss Cache Searchable. For those of you who don't know about it - it provides a query interface on JBoss Cache. That is to say, you can now search the cache!

Why is this so cool?

You don't need to hang onto your keys to get objects out of the cache. Plus, you can now get multiple results from the cache from searching (e.g. all people named "Steve") whereas traditionally you will only get a specific object out (e.g. "Steve Jones"). Previously, the major difference between a cache and a database was the fact that you could not query it - and we've just changed that :).

Beta 1 for JBoss Cache Searchable is now out, so have a look, play around and let us know what you think about it. For more information, look at the wiki. This is available for download on SourceForge.

Also, I got to make my first proper presentation about this ( wOOt!) and it was to a team of developers at Sri Lanka's biggest mobile phone network - Dialog. Yeah you guys may not have Sri Lanka pop into your minds for cutting-edge technology (even if you know where it is) but these guys do have about 4 million subscribers and may soon use JBCS on a multi-million dollar project to maintain subscriber profiles. I have attached a pdf version if anyone wants to have a look.

'Til later,
Navin.

Posted by Navin Surtani at 06:53 3 comments  

Labels: beta, hibernate search, jboss cache, search, searchable