What's New

This chapter provides a brief description about the features available in the Administration API in Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (Oracle SES) 11g Release 2.

Release 11.2.2

Disabled features

The Oracle SES 10g Administration API is deprecated in this release (searchadminctl and the associated Web services). The Oracle SES 11g Administration API replaces it. The following public Web services are disabled in this release:

• oracle.search.admin.ws.client.SearchAdminClient

  The following are the operations provided by this Web service:

  • getEstimatedIndexFragmentation

  • getSchedules

  • getScheduleStatus

  • optimizeIndexNow

  • startSchedule

  • stopSchedule

  • login

  • logout

• oracle.search.admin.ws.client.Schedule

• oracle.search.admin.ws.client.ScheduleStatus

Release 11.2.1

New administrative objects 

• docServiceInstance: Describes a document service instance.

• docServiceManager: Describes a document service manager.

• docServicePipeline: Describes a document service pipeline.

• facetTree: Describes a facet tree for faceted navigation.

• globalBoundaryRules: Describes the default rules limiting the scope of the crawler on each new source.

• globalDocumentTypes: Describes the default document types that are defined for each new source.

• relevanceRanking: Describes the rules for ranking the importance of various document attributes when ordering the search results.

Modified administrative objects: 

• crawlerSettings: Parameters from crawler.dat are now managed by elements in this object. Other new elements configure the crawlers on Oracle RAC installations.

• partitionConfig: Partitioning now has state and can be activated.

• queryConfig: Parameters from search.properties and ranking.xml are now managed by elements in this object.

• source: The <search:urlRewriter> and <search:authorizationPlugin> elements are disabled in Web sources.

• storageArea: Storage areas cannot be created in Oracle SES. Instead, you must first create the tablespace using a database tool, then register it as a storageArea with a create operation.

Disabled administrative objects: 

• alert

• clustering

• clusterTree

• resultList

• skinBundle

• source: These source types are disabled

  • FileNet Content Engine

  • FileNet Image Services

  • Hummingbird

  • IBM DB2

  • Open Text Livelink

• spaceCalculator

• task

Disabled operations: 

• docServiceManager: create, createAll, delete, deleteAll, deleteList

• identityPlugin: create, createAll, delete, deleteAll, deleteList

• sourceType: create, createAll, delete, deleteAll, deleteList