Advanced Development Tasks

You can perform additional tasks during the development phase to customize your indexing application further.

• Data Analysis and Cleansing – Generate tools from the master index project to help you analyze and cleanse the initial set of data to be loaded into the master index database. The analysis and cleansing steps are iterative, and each iteration will help you to fine-tune the standardization, matching, and filter logic.

• Bulk Loading – Generate the Initial Bulk Match and Load tools to rapidly match, deduplicate, and load the initial data set into the master index database.

• Custom Plug-ins - Create Java classes to perform custom processing during the matching process and once the matching process is complete (such as performing additional operations before finalizing a transaction or validating certain field values).

• Database Distribution - Before running the predefined scripts against the database, create additional tablespaces to distribute the tables of the master index.

• Match Engine Configuration - Customize how weighting is performed by modifying the match engine configuration files included in the master index project.

• External System Integration - When you generate the master index project, a set of operations are created that are specifically tailored to the object structure you defined. Use these operations to integrate the master index application using BPEL processes, web services, or Java clients.