Workbench and MDEX Connectivity

Workbench and MDEX Connectivity

March 02 2015

Few cartridges (Custom/OOTB) communicate directly with the MDEX engines for performing an operation and also communicate with the EAC applications managed by Workbench. Oracle Endeca Guided Search integration includes a number of components to facilitate both types of communication. AssemblerApplicationConfiguration Component Class “atg.endeca.assembler.configuration.AssemblerApplicationConfiguration” has properties defined for MDEX and Workbench config and many others. (For example baseApplicationName, locales, recordIdName, recordTypeName, recordSourceName, defaultLanguageForApplications, keyToApplicationName). […]

Endeca application configuration files

Mandar Shinde

February 23 2015

Oracle Endeca Enterprise Search

Many Endeca projects requires applications customization to enable custom script behavior [For example taking server out/in service using Cisco Application Networking Manager and many others], processing steps, or even changes to directory structure. The application configuration file AppConfig.xml located at “<app dir>/config/script/” and its associated files define various hosts, components and scripts are one which changes the way application works. Deployment Template provides a single […]

Scrpit to stop dgraph, archive logs, start dgraph

Mandar Shinde

February 21 2015

Oracle Endeca Enterprise Search

DgraphCluster has an object’s applyIndex() method from the default “DistributeIndexAndApply” scrpit to create a new script within your Deployment Template. You can see this script in AppConfig.xml for your application. The applyIndex() method will stop the dgraph, archived the log files, then restarted the dgraph. <script id=”RestartDgraphAndArchiveLogs”> <bean-shell-script> [![CDATA[DgraphCluster.applyIndex();]]> </bean-shell-script> </script>

Dimension not showing in Endeca Workbench

Mandar Shinde

February 02 2015

Oracle Endeca Enterprise Search

Endeca Workbench doesn’t query MDEX directly for getting information on “Dimension Ordering” which mostly Endeca JSP Ref app does. For workbench to know the newly created Dimension and Dimension Values execute ConfigManagerComponent.updateWsDimensions() // If it’s Oracle Endeca Commerce 11.1 WorkbenchManager.updateWsConfig(); Deployment template Baseline Update script is configured to call this method after index distribution completes.

New Update iOS 8.1.3

Mandar Shinde

January 27 2015

iOS

Apple sends out new update today. iOS 8.1.3 with 246MB

JAVA Environment Variables

Mandar Shinde

January 26 2015

JAVA

Once JAVA is installed, our second step is to set environment variables PATH, CLASSPATH and JAVA_HOME for compiling and running of Java applications. PATH (For Windows Users) When we launch any java program from command prompt, operating system use PATH environment variable to locate executable programs. PATH maintains a list of directories for searching executable programs such as “.exe”, “.bat” or “.com”. […]

Elasticsearch Basics

Mandar Shinde

January 11 2015

Elasticsearch

At the core of elasticsearch’s intelligent search engine is Lucene. It’s highly scalable, real-time search, distributed and analytics and is natively JSON + REST API. In this tutorial we’ll look at some components and features of Elasticsearch. Cluster A cluster is a collection of one or more nodes that together holds your entire data and provides federated indexing and search capabilities across all nodes. […]

Elasticsearch Getting Started

Mandar Shinde

January 10 2015

Elasticsearch

Highly scalable, real-time search, distributed and analytics open source search engine build on top of Lucene and is natively JSON + REST API. In this tutorial we’ll look at some of the key concepts when getting started with Elasticsearch [ES]. Key Points Open Source Based on Lucene RESTful API Highly configurable Runs on the JVM Data exploration Distributed: Cluster, fail over, replication, […]

WP Couch Mode

Mandar Shinde

January 10 2015

Wordpress

Web based services like Readability, and others give a different and ease of reading webpage in a cluster-free environment, which might include advertisements, widgets, and others. One of the best example is Apple Safari browser, there lets readers focus on the text without being distracted by ads and other items.

Oracle Endeca Commerce Installation On Openshift

Mandar Shinde

August 06 2014

Oracle Endeca Enterprise Search

Below are details on how we can install Oracle Endeca on Openshift. Components involved in Oracle Endeca Commerce Oracle Commerce Guided Search Oracle Commerce Experience Manager Oracle Commerce Guided Search and Oracle Commerce Experience Manager are the most effective way for your customers to dynamically explore your site and find relevant and desired items quickly. […]

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