Lucene on clustered environment

I have a task to refresh lucene indexes periodically. However, when the application is deployed on a clustered environment, each node tries to start indexing process and others display the following error:

 Entity com.me.MyEntity Id 1783 Work Type org.hibernate.search.backend.UpdateLuceneWork  
 : org.apache.lucene.store.LockObtainFailedException: Lock obtain timed out: NativeFSLock@/path_to_index/com.me.MyEntity/write.lock  
 at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:84) [lucene-core-3.5.0.jar:3.5.0 1204425 - simon - 2011-11-21 11:20:12]  
 at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:1108) [lucene-core-3.5.0.jar:3.5.0 1204425 - simon - 2011-11-21 11:20:12]  
 at org.hibernate.search.backend.impl.lucene.IndexWriterHolder.createNewIndexWriter(IndexWriterHolder.java:127) [hibernate-search-engine-4.1.0.Final.jar:4.1.0.Final]  
 at org.hibernate.search.backend.impl.lucene.IndexWriterHolder.getIndexWriter(IndexWriterHolder.java:102) [hibernate-search-engine-4.1.0.Final.jar:4.1.0.Final]  
 at org.hibernate.search.backend.impl.lucene.AbstractWorkspaceImpl.getIndexWriter(AbstractWorkspaceImpl.java:119) [hibernate-search-engine-4.1.0.Final.jar:4.1.0.Final]  
 at org.hibernate.search.backend.impl.lucene.LuceneBackendQueueTask.applyUpdates(LuceneBackendQueueTask.java:99) [hibernate-search-engine-4.1.0.Final.jar:4.1.0.Final]  
 at org.hibernate.search.backend.impl.lucene.LuceneBackendQueueTask.run(LuceneBackendQueueTask.java:67) [hibernate-search-engine-4.1.0.Final.jar:4.1.0.Final]  
 at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0_03]  
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) [rt.jar:1.7.0_03]  
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) [rt.jar:1.7.0_03]  
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) [rt.jar:1.7.0_03]  
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) [rt.jar:1.7.0_03]  
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_03]  

Those links may help you:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1228833/sharing-a-java-synchronized-block-across-a-cluster-or-using-a-global-lock 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17921898/using-lucene-in-a-clustered-environment-with-shared-nfs
http://forums.terracotta.org/forums/posts/list/6707.page
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13486426/how-to-unlock-the-index-directory-in-lucene

But, i solved my case by adding a random timer to sleep :

 @Schedule(...)   
      public void myTask() {  
           try {  
                long sleepFor = (long)(Math.random() * 100000);  
                Thread.sleep(sleepFor); // hope nodes sleep different amount of time  
                log.infov("Sleep for this cluster : " + sleepFor);  
                Directory directory = FSDirectory.open(new File("path_to_index/com.me.MyEntity/"));  
             if (directory.fileExists("write.lock")) {  
               log.infov("ATTENTION!!! Already done by the other node!!");  
               return;  
             }  
             directory.close();  
 ...  

The random timer weakens the syncronization between nodes and the one who sleeps the least does the job! Then others know about this by checking the lock file..

Hope this helps..

lucene date issue

When indexing with Lucene (Hibernate Search), you may notice difference between dates in the database and indexed values. For example, in my case, Lucene dates were a day before the dates in the database. This is due to timezone differences. In the following annotation, org.hibernate.search.annotations.DateBridge assumes GMT time..

 @Column(name = "CREATED")  
 @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)  
 @DateBridge(resolution = Resolution.DAY)  
 private Date created;  

My solution was to write a custom field bridge named ESTDateBridge by copying the original DateBridge code and changing the default timezone from GMT to "America/New_York" (writing EST did not work..)
The working annotation is as follows:

 @Column(name = "CREATED")  
 @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)  
 @FieldBridge(impl = ESTDateBridge.class)  
 private Date created;  

Some references:
http://jamesjefferies.com/2009/04/22/hibernate-search-lucene-and-greenwich-mean-time/ 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Data_Grid/6.4/html/Infinispan_Query_Guide/sect-Bridges.html 
https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=990266&view=next