4 Understanding Crawling

This chapter discusses the Oracle SES crawler. It contains the following topics:

• Overview of the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Crawler

• Overview of Crawler Settings

• Overview of XML Connector Framework

• Configuring Support for Image Metadata

• Overview of Attributes

• Understanding the Crawling Process

• Monitoring the Crawling Process

• Parallel Query Indexing

See Also:

• "Tuning the Crawl Performance" and "Tuning Search Performance"

• The Oracle Secure Enterprise Search tutorials at

  http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oses/index.html