Developing and Deploying the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search File Crawler Plug-In

In this sub-module, you learn how to leverage the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search File crawler plug-in.

Andrew being completely satisfied with Timothy's work on the LDAP crawler plug-in, approaches him again with a new requirement.

Andrew is now completely swamped since it is college recruiting season where new college graduates apply for and are interviewed for positions at Oracle.

As the HR Manager, he needs to shortlist candidates' resumes for interviews. This process requires confidentiality, with the need for file-level access control. So, Andrew presents Timothy with the requirement to enforce file-level access control on searches for resumes.

Timothy looks at the sample plug-in and realizes that these handle public files only. He, therefore, decides to customize the sample plug-in to specify Access-Control-List (ACL) information for files to enforce security.

Timothy first studies the sample File crawler plug-in that ships with Oracle SES to get a sense of the design and the functionality of the plug-in. Timothy implements the necessary Oracle SES Java plug-in API interfaces to build the plug-in Java classes. He packages the plug-in Java classes into a .jar file. Timothy finally registers the plug-in and tests it.