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Fundamentals of WCS' Public Site Search Infrastructure

Posted by Freddy Villalba on Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 10:31 Web Experience Management Lucene, solr, CacheUpdater, Indexing, Oracle WebCenter Sites, asset event listener, SystemEvent, daemon, queue, analyzer, customization

Webcenter Sites ships with Apache Lucene.

Apache Lucene drives:

  • Asset-oriented search within the Contributor UI. This is automatically set up by default on an standard install. Users can enable / disable it on a per asset type basis as needed.
  • Asset-oriented search through a WCS-driven website's search box (or any equivalent feature). Developers must implement website-specific search logic; WCS provides a very basic API for this purpose.

In this post, we will focus on the fundamental aspects regarding Lucene-driven asset-oriented search in WCS-...

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Integrating Twitter and WCS: A Primer On Asset Event Listeners And Other Mechanisms

Posted by Freddy Villalba on Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 10:35 Web Experience Management asset event listener, PreUpdate, PostUpdate, custom cache flush hook, CacheUpdater, Twitter, WebCenter Sites, Publishing, Flex Asset, Flex Filter

Welcome back!

In my previous article, I outlined the different mechanisms in WCS for plugging your own ad-hoc logic into the asset save processing flow.

Before diving into the subject at hand, here are a couple of things we are NOT going to resolve in this article:

  • The "best possible" asset model for supporting Twitter integration.
    • Asset model, like any data model, varies significantly depending on each...
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On Asset Event Listeners And Other Ways of Hooking-up Ad-hoc Logic Into WCS' Asset Save Processing Flow

Posted by Freddy Villalba on Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 13:57 Web Experience Management Asset Event Listeners, Flex Filters, CacheUpdater, PreUpdate, PostUpdate, asset, save, transaction, WCS, RealTime publishing, create, delete, update

 

DISCLAIMER (/ SPOILER): in this blog entry, we will not explain what an asset event listener is nor how to create one; they have been around since WCS' stone age and there is extensive documentation out there explaining that in detail, including - but not limited to - WCS 11g's official documentation and Java API:

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