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All Hibernate Search mapping metadata is described through annotations. Hibernate Search metadata is very code centric and shares a lot of information from the class structure: annotations are a natural fit and avoid lots of redundancy compared to other metadata models like XML. It would be quite simple to add an XML deployment descriptor support for Hibernate Search. Nobody has found the time and interest to write this layer (so far) which seems to prove that this feature is not that strongly desired by the Hibernate Search community.