3 Understanding Crawling

This chapter discusses the Oracle SES crawler. It contains the following topics:

• Overview of the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Crawler

• Overview of Crawler Settings

• Overview of XML Connector Framework

• Configuring Support for Image Metadata

• Overview of Attributes

• Understanding the Crawling Process

• Monitoring the Crawling Process

• Parallel Query Indexing

See Also:

• "Tuning Crawl Performance" and "Tuning Search Performance and Scalability"

• The Oracle Secure Enterprise Search tutorials at

  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/search/oses/overview/index.html