Welcome to the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
Developer Tutorial: Building Custom Plug-Ins
Larry Ellison at OOW Japan 2006: "Our biggest new product announcement in many years" - Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES).
The main driver of growth in the enterprise search market: People want a single point of access to all their information.
Out-of-the-box, with no additional coding required, Oracle SES 10.1.8 provides more access than any other enterprise search engine. It provides uniform search capabilities over multiple repositories. Oracle SES uses a crawler to collect data from these sources. The crawler supports a number of built-in source types, as well as a published plug-in or connector architecture for adding new types.
Multiple Oracle SES instances can also share content through the Federation framework that it provides. Unlike the traditional centralized search solution, federation enables distributed search. This can be accomplished in 2 ways:
- SES-to-SES Federation
- Suggested Content
SES-to-SES federation enables scalability. You get better performance
from two large federated sources than one single machine indexing both.
Your support organization may have an SES instance, which they maintain,
and the data center may have theirs. Nevertheless, they may want to make
their searches available to each other. SES-to-SES federation allows this.
Suggested content feature lets you index and display real time content in the search results screen. A style sheet can be applied to the content before it is displayed in the search result list.
Oracle SES ships with plug-ins for many applications. It ships Crawler
plug-ins that enables you to create your own secure crawler plug-in
to meet your customer requirements. The Crawler Plug-in API is used to
crawl and index proprietary document repositories, called user-defined
sources.
Oracle SES is now directly integrated with access control and identity management solutions. No synchronization with Oracle Internet Directory is necessary for Oracle SES to ensure access control. Oracle SES can directly access Active Directory, without extra coding, through a new authorization API and identity plug-in architecture. Oracle SES ships plug-ins for Oracle Internet Directory and Microsoft Active Directory, among others.
Learn more about the Plug-ins, APIs, and Federation by clicking the Start
Tutorial link below.
Bottom Line - You can build your own custom plug-ins right away!!
Last updated: February 1, 2007
