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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For…WebCenter Sites 11g and Lucene Search

Posted by Eric Brengle on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 09:32 Development, Web Experience Management WebCenter Sites 11g, apache, Lucene, WCS, Asset Type

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For…WebCenter Sites 11g and Lucene Search

Out-of-the-box Oracle WebCenter Sites utilizes Apache Lucene as its third-party search engine. Lucene is a Java based full-text search engine that is capable of powering applications requiring search. This integration powers the Contributor Interface as well as the Public Site search. Although it's built-in, Lucene requires some setup before it can be truly functional. This allows WCS users to customize the search functionality, allowing for a truly custom fit for your organization....

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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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