I don't believe this is possible. Hibernate Search 4.4 is intended to work with Lucene 3.6.
It appears that Lucene 4.X support is planned for Hibernate Search 5.0
Question
Anybody got a mix of the latest Hibernate Search (4.4.0.+)....
and Lucene 4 to work? Is it possible? Assuming too much has changed internally from Lucene 3 to 4.
Solution
I don't believe this is possible. Hibernate Search 4.4 is intended to work with Lucene 3.6.
It appears that Lucene 4.X support is planned for Hibernate Search 5.0