Performing a Search

Users are primarily concerned with asking questions of the data in the search collections, and getting a list of documents in return. The search web application installed with Sun Java System Web Server provides default search query and search results pages. These pages can be used as they are, or customized using a set of JSP tags as described in Customizing Search Pages.

Users search against collections that have been created by the server administrator. They can:

• Input a set of keywords and optional query operators on which to search

• Search only collections that are visible to the virtual server

• Search against a single collection, or across a set of collections visible to the virtual server

Server administrators must provide users with the URL needed to access the search query page for a virtual server.