Chapter 77 Service Providers

This chapter provides common customization tasks for modifying the Search provider and Discussion provider.

Overview of the Service Providers

This section describes about service providers such as Search Provider and Discussion Provider.

Search Provider

The Search provider uses JSPProvider to access the Portal Server back end services. The Search provider users JavaServer Pages^TM (JSP^TM) helper tag libraries to avoid using Java^TM scriptlets. The searchServer is a global service list type attribute that is configured and updated at installation time. The Search provider is responsible for directing the search request to the appropriate back end Search Engine server.

See the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Technical Reference for the display profile properties you can set for the provider.

Discussion Provider

This section describes about the Discussion Provider.