Predicate-based Indexing of Enterprise Web Applications

Searching the Web has become a commodity. However, extending applications with search capabilities is still an open research topic [2]. Large enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle Finance implement their own search engines. Vendors of small applications cannot afford such an investment and, as a result, small applications either do not provide search facilities or have very imprecise search capabilities. The main problem is to efficiently and completely index dynamic pages which are not physically on disk. This demo shows a generic approach to enhancing enterprise web applications with search capabilities. The approach is independent of the language in which pages are written and it does not require to start the web container. It is based on extended inverted files and it is applied to the PetStore application, a popular Web-based application based on the J2EE framework.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CIDR
• Authors: Cristian Duda, David A. Graf, Donald Kossmann
• Keywords: Algorithms, CIDR 2007, Imprecise Search Capabilities, Search Capabilities, Small Applications