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Changing DNS and IP not picked up by MDEX/ITL

If there is change in DNS and IP address for MDEX/ITL servers, we update those in configuration flies which will not work unless, we restart Endeca HTTP Service. This is because JAVA caches hostname resolution information and therefore changes will not be picked up/recognized. So, simple resolution is to restart Endeca HTTP Service on ITL box and MDEX box, this will allow JAVA […]

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Difference between RequestDispatcher’s forward(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response) and HttpServletResponse’s sendRedirect(String location)

Forward method of RequestDispatcher will forward ServletRequest and ServletResponse that it is passed to path that was specified in getRequestDispatcher(String somePath). Response will not be sent back to client and so client will not know about change of resource on server. This method is useful for communicating between server resources (servlet to servlet). Because request and response are forwarded to […]

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Oracle Endeca Commerce Record Boost And Burry

Records Boost and Burry feature allow you to show products at the top or bottom depending on the values set for boost and burry. Endeca also allows you to set multiple sorting parameters when querying MDEX engine. For example “N=0&Ns=Price|1||Location(27,72)”. We can use this during Boost and Burry as well. How to add other sort parameter to records Boost and Burry ? Boost […]

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Precedence rules: Standard and leaf

Precedence rules provide a way to delay display of dimensions until they offer a useful refinement of the navigation state. They are defined in terms of a trigger dimension value and a target dimension, where a user’s selection of trigger dimension value reveals previously unavailable target dimension to the user. Standard and leaf precedence rules There are two types of precedence rules, […]

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Why did I get this results?

In this topic we will try to understand how Oracle Endeca Commerce text search/keyword search which is also refers to two types of searches, record search and dimension search. As its name implies, record search is process of searching for data whether it be part data, catalog data, document data etc. using search keywords entered by user. Dimension search, on the other hand, refers to […]

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Oracle Endeca Commerce Relevance Ranking

Relevance ranking refers to ordering search results by criteria that are relative to the search term. This is in contrast to common use of the terms “sorting” and “static sorting”. This is a recursive exercise to analyze and implement appropriate Relevance Ranking for an application for getting desired results. There are different Relevance Ranking module available for ordering search results which are […]

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Oracle Endeca Commerce DidYouMean

“Did you mean?” functionality allows an application to provide site user with explicit alternative suggestions for a keyword search. For example, if a user searches for “lapto” in sample data, user will get few results. The terms “laptop” and “laptops” however, are much more prevalent. When this feature is enabled, MDEX Engine will respond with the few results for “lapto”, but will also suggest that “laptop”or “laptops” may be […]

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Where is EDeN Content?

  EDeN Content Current Location Product Downloads edelivery.oracle.com Product Documentation (pdfs) docs.oracle.com Forums – New Content OTN: forums.oracle.com Support: communities.oracle.com Forums – legacy Content MOS: communities.oracle.com Support Tech Notes support.oracle.com (knowledge tab) Solution Articles and Whitepapers support.oracle.com (knowledge tab) Release Notes & Release Announcements OTN product landing page Release Announcements & Product Updates LinkedIn Community – Oracle Commerce Community Let's […]

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untar a tar file or gzip-bz2 tar file

Tar file can come compressed or uncompressed. Generally that are compressed using gzip or bzip2. tar, will uncompress both types and extract the files from archive. We can execute below command – tar xvzf test.tar.gz – to uncompress a gzip tar file (.tgz or .tar.gz) – tar xvjf test.tar.bz2 – to uncompress a bzip2 tar file (.tbz or .tar.bz2) – tar xvf […]

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