Also tested on 3.2-SNAPSHOT

The following setup currently will not work since Hibernate Search is instructing Lucene to hold exclusive lock on an index:

• Modeshape running in clustered mode
• Modeshape configured to use infinispan as index storage for lucene

Basically, Hibernate Search assumes that exclusive access to the index storage is a given, in CommonPropertiesParse.java hibernate-search-engine:4.2.0.Final):

	public static boolean isExclusiveIndexUsageEnabled(Properties indexProps) {
		return ConfigurationParseHelper.getBooleanValue( indexProps, Environment.EXCLUSIVE_INDEX_USE, true );
	}

Note the default value of true, this causes locks to be held on the index perpetually and never released once a node acquired access to the index (at RepositoryQueryManager.queryEngine() when it calls:

SearchFactoryImplementor searchFactory = new SearchFactoryBuilder().configuration(config).buildSearchFactory();

All subsequent modeshape instances will hang immediately when it reaches this line.

The only fix I can think of is to add a configuration parameter to the indexing configuration section of modeshape and pass in the hibernate search configuration parameter: hibernate.search.​[default|<indexname>].​exclusive_index_use, per: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/4.2/reference/en-US/html/search-configuration.html#lucene-indexing-performance

Note that this property used to be "false" in 3.x but defaults to "true" in 4.x.