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A

APIs
A collection of classes and interfaces used to implement a crawler plug-in. Click Here to view the complete list of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search APIs.

C

Crawl
The process of reading sources and creating the search engine index.

Crawler
A program to read sources to create the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search index.

Crawler Plug-in API

The Crawler Plug-in API enables the users to create their own secure crawler plug-in to meet their requirements.The Crawler Plug-in API is used to crawl and index proprietary document repositories, called user-defined sources. The plug-in collects document URLs and associated metadata from the user-defined source and returns the information to the Oracle SES crawler.The crawler plug-in must be implemented in Java using the Oracle SES Crawler Plug-in API.

D

Document Attributes

Each source has its own set of document attributes. Document attributes, like metadata, describe the properties of a document. The crawler retrieves values and
maps them to one of the search attributes. This mapping lets users search documents based on their attributes. Document attributes in different sources can be mapped to the same search attribute. Therefore, users can search documents from multiple sources based on the same search attribute.

Display URL

A display URL is a URL string used for search result display. This is the URL used when users click the search result link.

F

Federated search
Allows use of multiple indexes to perform a single search. Each index can be maintained separately.

H

Hitlist
A list of results of a search.

I

Index
An Oracle Secure Enterprise Search structure that is updated after a crawl. It is used to speed performance of searches.

L

LOV

The list of values (LOV) for a search attribute helps the user specify a search. For user-defined sources where LOV information is supplied through a crawler plug-in, the crawler registers the LOV definition. When multiple sources define the LOV for a common attribute, such as title, the user sees all the possible values for the attribute. When the user restricts search within a particular source group, only LOVs provided by the corresponding sources in the source group will be shown.

Q

Query Time Authorization API

The Query Time Authorization API filters search results and access to document information at query time. Query time filtering can be used in addition to, or in place of ACLs.

R

Relevance
The level of match of the search results to the search string.

Remote crawler
Improves crawl performance by moving the crawler onto a separate machine.

S

Schedule
Defines the frequency with which each source is crawled.

Search
The process of querying the search engine.

Search string
The string the user types into the search box. This may include a number of terms (words and/or phrases) and operators (such as + and -).

Search metadata
Information about the sources, crawls, and schedules.

Secure search
Returns only search results that the search user is allowed to view based on access privileges.

Seed URL(s)
The starting point(s) for a crawl. Also known as “Starting URL(s).”

Source
A source of data to be searched. A source has a type (Web, table, file, e-mail, mailing list, Oracle Portal, federated, user-defined).

Source group
A grouping of sources, so that users can search across one or more groups conveniently.

Starting URL(s)
The starting point(s) for a crawl. Also known as “Seed URL(s).”

T

Tools
searchctl – for starting up and shutting down the search engine.
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search administration tool – for managing sources, schedules, and the search engine.
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search application – for searching using the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search index.

U

URL Rewriter API

A URL rewriter is a user supplied Java module that implements the Oracle SES UrlRewriter Java interface. When activated, it is used by the crawler to filter and rewrite extracted URL links before they are inserted into the URL queue. The URL Rewriter API is used for Web sources.

URL Attributes

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) provides the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. Attributes of the URL include protocol used such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and so on; IP address or the domain name.

W

Web Services API

The Web Services API is used to build a custom search application to search on the data indexed by Oracle Secure Enterprise Search. Oracle SES provides the Web Services Proxy Java library. The users can either use the Java library or create proxies, based on the published Web Services Description Language (WSDL), to access Oracle SES Web Services.