The Search Engine Java SDK

The classes in the search engine Java SDK provide a Java interface for interacting with the search server to access the search engine database.

Using the Java SDK, you can build Java programs, applets, and your own interfaces that submit searches to the search engine.

The search engine database contains resource descriptions for the indexed resources, such as documents. Each resource description is described in SOIF format, where SOIF stands for Summary Object Interchange Format.

For a discussion of SOIF, see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-rdm.html#soif.