Re: Integrating Excalibur with an Oracle-based application

Yes, I have worked a while with Intermedia and I find it very easy to use and very awful to administer. Its tight integration with Oracle is its main beauty of course.

This as was a typo, I meant to ask: How good is Excalibur at sucking content from Oracle schemas? Is there a required format for access control lists?

So you export all the data and the access control lists to some Excalibur repository and do the searches there?

cheers Dirk

"Gary Weber" <gweber_at_cji.com> writes:

> Dirk,
>
> Here at my site, it was decided to abandon InterMedia. I think the main
> reason was the lack of developers capable of supporting it. Excalibur's
> search engine is being considered as alternative, but from my limited
> exposure to the project I understand that it has limitations in handling
> BLOB/CLOB fields, at least at the current release level. Btw, in direct
> response to one of your questions: Intermedia index does NOT suck the
> content out of Oracle, but rather is stored INSIDE of Oracle, where it can
> be happily utilized, maintained and abused. Excalibur, on the other hand,
> "scans" Oracle and builds its indexes elsewhere. Watch out for time required
> by Excalibur to index Oracle tables, rebuild existing indexes, and take into
> consideration mechanism required to keep existing Excalibur indexes
> current - triggers'r'us.
>
> Gary
>
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>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'll be working on a project pretty soon where I will have to use
> Excalibur. The goals are:
>
> - integrating the contents of my database with the company-wide running
> Excalibur. Questions: How good is Intermedia at sucking content from
> Oracle
> schemas? Is there a required format for access control lists? I know
> there's
> a gateway and I suppose this is pretty straight forward.
>
> - for some reason I'll even have to replace Intermedia with Excalibur. Any
> thoughts on this?
>
> cheers Dirk
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