Hibernate Search: Offline text extraction

Suppose that using Hibernate Search you want to index not only the standard persistent content of your objects, like string contents such as name, description etc., but also external references to files, such as PDF documents, HTML contents and so on.

We are going to address the following problem: if you use Hibernate Search in the simplest way to index such properties of your indexed objects, text extraction will happen at the same time as the storing of the objects, and hence in a transactional scope, hanging thread completion until text extraction is completed, even if indexing is done asynchronously, which is an option in Hibernate Search.
Full text search is among lots of exciting new features that we will be releasing in the next few months.