Contents

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List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

What's New

• New Features for Release 10.1.7

1 Introduction to Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

• Overview of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
• Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Components
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Crawler
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Administration Tool
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search APIs and Applications
• Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Features
  • Secure Search
  • Federated Search
  • Web Services API
  • Extensible Crawler Plug-in Framework

2 Getting Started with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

• Getting Started Basics with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
• Understanding the Administration Tool
  • Home Tab
  • Search Tab
  • Global Settings Tab

3 Understanding Crawling and Searching

• Overview of the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Crawler
  • Crawler URL Queue
  • Understanding Access URLs and Display URLs
  • Using Crawler Plug-ins
• Overview of Crawler Settings
  • Crawling Mode
  • URL Boundary Rules
    • Inclusion Rules
    • Exclusion Rules
    • Example Using Regular Expression
  • Crawling Depth
  • Robots Exclusion
  • Index Dynamic Pages
  • URL Rewriter API
  • Title Fallback
• Overview of Attributes
• Understanding the Crawling Process
  • The Initial Crawl
    • Queuing and Caching Documents
    • Indexing Documents
  • Maintenance Crawls
• Monitoring the Crawling Process
  • Crawler Statistics
  • Crawler Log File
    • Crawler Configuration File
• Overview of Searching in Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
  • Basic Search
  • Advanced Search
    • Narrowing Searches by Search Attributes
    • Limiting Searches to Certain Source
    • Limiting Searches to Documents Written in a Specific Language
  • Browse Source Groups
  • Submit URL

4 Security in Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

• About Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Security
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Security Model
  • How Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Leverages Security Services
  • Temporary Passwords
  • Authorization and Authentication
    • Restrictions on Changing the ACL Policy
    • Restrictions on Changing the Oracle Internet Directory Identity Plug-in
  • Authentication Methods
    • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search User Repository
    • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Authentication Interface
• Enabling Secure Search
  • Secure Search Options
    • Admin-based Authorization
    • Custom Crawler Plug-in
    • Query-time Authorization
    • Self Service Authorization
• Configuring Oracle Secure Enterprise Search for Oracle Single Sign-On
  • Using mod_oc4j to Front Oracle Secure Enterprise Search with an Oracle HTTP Server
• SSL and HTTPS Support in Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
  • Understanding SSL
  • SSL in Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
  • Managing the Keystore
  • Configuring Oracle Secure Enterprise Search to Require SSL
  • Enabling SSL in Oracle HTTP Server's mod_oc4j Module
    • OpenSSL as a Certificate Authority
• Security in a Federated Search Environment

5 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Advanced Information

• Tips for Using Table Sources
  • Limitations with Table Sources
  • Limitations with Database Links
• Tips for Using File Sources
  • Crawling File Sources with Non-ASCII
  • Crawling File Sources with Symbolic Links
  • Crawling File URLs
• Tips for Using Mailing List Sources
• Tips for Using OracleAS Portal Sources
• Tips for Using User-Defined Sources
• Tips for Using Federated Sources
  • Federated Search Characteristics
  • Federated Search Limitations
• Setting Up Secure Federated Search
  • Federation Trusted Entities
• Tips for Using Oracle Calendar Sources
• Setting Up Secure Oracle Calendar Sources
• Tips for Using Oracle Content Database Sources
  • Limitations with Oracle Content Database Sources
• Setting Up Secure Oracle Content Database Sources
• Tuning Crawl Performance
  • Register a Proxy
  • Check Boundary Rules
    • Notes for File Sources
  • Check Dynamic Pages
  • Check Crawler Depth
  • Check Robots.txt Rule
  • Check Duplicate Pages
  • Check Redirected Pages
  • Check URL Looping
  • What to do Next
• Tuning Search Performance
  • Optimize the Index
  • Increase the Size of the Indexing Batch Size
  • Check the Search Statistics
    • Relevancy Boosting
  • Increase the JVM Heap Size
  • Increase the Oracle Undo Space
• Using Backup and Recovery
• Integrating with Google Desktop for Enterprise
• Monitoring Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
• Turning On Debug Mode
• Restarting Oracle Secure Enterprise Search After Rebooting

6 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search APIs

• Overview of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search APIs
• Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services API
  • Web Services Concepts
    • Web Services
    • Simple Object Access Protocol
    • Web Services Description Language
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services Architecture
    • Development Platforms
    • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services Operations
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services Common Data Types
    • Base Data Types
    • XML-to-Java Data Type Mappings
    • Complex Types
    • CustomAttributes
    • Array Types
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services Operations
    • Authentication Operations
    • Search Operations
    • Browse Operations
    • Metadata Operations
    • Search Hit Operations
    • User Feedback Operations
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services Query Syntax
    • Search Term
    • Phrase
    • Operators
    • Default Search - Implicit AND Search
    • Word Separator
    • Filter Conditions (Advanced Conditions)
    • Special Search Terms
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services Example
  • Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services Installation
  • Client-Side Java Proxy Library
  • Internally Used Web Services Messages
• Oracle Secure Enterprise Search SDK
  • Crawler Plug-in API
    • Crawler Plug-in Overview
    • Crawler Plug-in Functionality
  • URL Rewriter API
    • URL Link Filtering
    • URL Link Rewriting
    • Creating and Using a URL Rewriter
  • Query-time Authorization API
    • Overview of Query-time Authorization
    • Filtering Document Access
    • Filtering Folder Browsing
    • Pruning Access to an Entire Source
    • Determining the Authenticated User
    • Query-time Authorization Interfaces and Exceptions
    • Thread-safety of the Filter Implementation
    • Compiling and Packaging the Query-time Filter
    • Sample Query-time Filter Files

A URL Crawler Status Codes

B Error Messages

C WSDL Specification

D LDIF Files

• calPlugin.ldif
• csPlugin.ldif

E Third Party Licenses

• Apache log4j and Apache Axis
  • The Apache Software License

Glossary

Index