Oracle Ultra Search User's Guide Release 9.0.3 Part Number B10043-01 |
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Oracle Ultra Search User's Guide describes how to install, configure, and use Ultra Search. It also describes how to use Ultra Search APIs to create custom applications.
This preface contains these topics:
Oracle Ultra Search User's Guide is intended for database administrators and application developers who perform the following tasks:
To use this document, you should have experience with the Oracle database management system, SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL.
This document contains:
This section describes new features and provides pointers to additional information.
This chapter provides an overview of Ultra Search and describes the system configuration.
This chapter describes how to install and configure Ultra Search.
This chapter provides post-installation information, such as how to configure the Oracle server for Ultra Search and how to manage stoplists. It also describes how to upgrade to the most recent Ultra Search release.
This chapter explains how the crawler works. It also describes crawler settings, data sources, document attributes, data syncrhonization, and the remote crawler.
This chapter describes how to use the Ultra Search administration tool to configure and schedule the Ultra Search crawler.
This chapter explains the following Ultra Search APIs: query API, crawler agent API, email API, and URL rewriter API. It also provides related API information, such as details about the sample query applications, the query tag library, and query syntax expansion customization.
This appendix describes web crawling stategies, URL looping, and ways to monitor the crawling process.
This appendix contains suggestions on how to improve the performance of the Ultra Search query.
This appendix explains why and how to use the remote crawler.
This appendix describes the logging mechanism Ultra Search uses to optimize the crawling of table sources.
This appendix describes the command-line tool for loading metadata into an Ultra Search database.
This appendix explains why and how to alter the crawler Java classpath.
This appendix describes how to customize the query syntax expansion for a previous release of Ultra Search: release 9.0.1.
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