This chapter describes new features of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) 10g Release 1 (10.1.8). It also provides pointers to additional information.
The main driver of growth in the enterprise search market: People want a single point of access to all their information.
Out-of-the-box, with no additional coding required, Oracle SES 10.1.8 provides more access than any other enterprise search engine. It can find and verify information in the following:
Files in Microsoft NT File systems (NTFS)
EMC Documentum Content Server DocBases
IBM Lotus Notes databases
FileNet Content Engine object stores
FileNet Image Services libraries
Open Text Livelink
Microsoft Exchange
Oracle SES ships with plug-ins (a plug-in is a software module that adds features by Oracle SES) for all these applications. (Note: To use some of the new plug-ins, additional licensing is required.) Oracle SES controls access to private documents and restricts access to specific workgroups based on access control information obtained during the indexing and stored in its search engine index.
Oracle SES also searches across a number of Oracle sources: OracleAS Portal, Oracle Collaboration Suite Content Services and Calendar, Oracle Content Database, selected modules of Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle Siebel.
Oracle SES is now directly integrated with access control and identity management solutions. No synchronization with Oracle Internet Directory is necessary for Oracle SES to ensure access control. Oracle SES can directly access Active Directory (no extra coding required) through a new authorization API and identity plug-in architecture. Oracle SES ships plug-ins for Oracle Internet Directory and Microsoft Active Directory, among others.
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"Authorization and Authentication"New suggested content feature lets you index and display real time content in the search results screen. A style sheet can be applied to the content before it is displayed in the search result list.
In addition to the existing Query Web Service API, Oracle SES now includes an Admin Web Service API. This API lets you perform a subset of administrative actions, such as starting and stopping a crawler schedule or getting the index fragmentation level. The Admin Web service is located at the following URL: http://host:port/search/ws/admin/SearchAdmin.
See Also:
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Java API Reference
Appendix D, "WSDL Specifications"
The "Web Services Interface" section in the Oracle SES administration tutorial:
http://st-curriculum.oracle.com/tutorial/SESAdminTutorial/index.htm
Other improvements include a simplified method for configuring secure search with OracleAS Single Sign-On, a title fallback feature to override default document titles picked up during crawling with a more meaningful title later, a more simple configuration of federated sources, and case-insensitive relevancy boosting (documents with "Oracle" are boosted when you enter "oracle".)
Upgrade from Oracle SES Release 1 (10.1.6) is supported.