| Oracle® Collaboration Suite Concepts Release 2 (9.0.4) Part Number B15605-01 |
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| Oracle® Collaboration Suite Concepts Release 2 (9.0.4) Part Number B15605-01 |
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Oracle Collaboration Suite Search consists of two components that work together to find what you want within an Oracle Collaboration Suite installation and on your corporate networks: Ultra Search and Federated Search.
Ultra Search is a Web based search engine solution that searches across multiple repositories, including relational databases, HTML hosted on Web servers, Oracle9iAS Portal, files on disk and IMAP mail servers. Ultra Search uses a crawler to index the information found in these repositories and then stores the findings in indexes that are stored within a Oracle database. The indexed documents are not moved or modified by the crawling process. Ultra Search also provides APIs for building content management solutions.
Federated Search accepts search terms from end users through the Collaboration Suite Search page and displays an integrated list of search results from Mail, Files and Web servers crawled by Ultra Search.
The following sections describe the main components of Oracle Ultra Search:
Ultra Search's crawler indexes the content of all Oracle Collaboration Suite repositories. This information is used to build an index that is located within a designated Oracle Database. Each time a new e-mail is received or a new file is uploaded, Oracle Email and Files build their own indexes and update it automatically. As a result, no crawling is required for Oracle Collaboration Suite applications and search results are always current.
The Ultra Search server component, or back end, consists of an Ultra Search repository and Oracle Text. Oracle Text provides the text indexing and search capabilities required to index and query data retrieved from your data sources. The Ultra Search back end is not visible to Oracle Collaboration Suite end users.
The Oracle Ultra Search middle tier components are Web applications. The middle tier includes the Oracle Ultra Search administration tool, the APIs, and the query applications.
The Ultra Search administration tool is a J2EE-compliant Web application used to manage Ultra Search instances, and you can access it from your intranet using any browser. The administration tool is independent from the Ultra Search query application so the administration tool and query application can be hosted on different computers to enhance security and scalability.
Ultra Search enables you to create custom search applications that work with any type of information by means of a set of query APIs. These APIs can be used from Web applications to retrieve and display query results. Query APIs are offered for Java and are compatible with many Web application servers that support Java Server Pages (JSP).
Ultra Search also includes highly functional query applications to query and display search results. The query applications are based on JSP and work with any JSP1.1 compliant engine.
