The Platform Services package consists of a number of components that are used to build applications in support of the MDEX engine.
Two of the major components of the Platform Services package are the Information Transformation Layer (which includes Forge and other Data Foundry components) and the Endeca Application Controller (EAC). The following table lists the components that are available in the Platform Services installation package.
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Platform Services Component |
Description |
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Endeca Application Controller (EAC) |
The EAC components consist of the EAC Central
Server (which coordinates the command, control, and monitoring of all Agents in
an Guided Search implementation), the EAC Agent (which controls the work of a
Guided Search implementation on a single host machine) and the EAC command-line
utility,
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Data Foundry |
Consists of the Forge program and its related components, such as record adapters, record manipulators, dimension servers, property mappers, and so on. Note that the Dgidx program is not part of this package, but is available in the MDEX Engine installation package. |
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Presentation and Logging APIs |
APIs to the MDEX engine and Log Server. The Presentation API must be installed on the machine that hosts the Web application server. |
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Logging and Reporting System |
The Log Server and Report Generator, which (together with the Logging API) make up the Logging and Reporting System. |
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Reference Implementations |
Sample Guided Search applications that include a sample Developer Studio project (including source data and instance configuration files), as well as JSP and .NET user interface (front-end) applications. |
