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21 Managing Oracle SES Search in WebCenter 21-1 21 Managing Oracle SES Search in WebCenter This chapter describes how to configure the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search SES adapter to index and search most WebCenter objects. Oracle SES search is beneficial for the following reasons: ■ Oracle SES search provides unified ranking results, with the most relevant items appearing first. ■ Oracle SES search allows search of other repositories outside of Oracle WebCenter. ■ Oracle SES search supports the Search service REST APIs and data control for customizing your search interface. With WebCenter Portal applications, Oracle SES is set as the default and preferred search platform. Detailed configuration steps are in Section 21.5, Configuring Oracle SES to Search WebCenter Portal Applications. With WebCenter Spaces applications, internal WebCenter live search adapters are set as the default search platform; however, large-scale WebCenter implementations should be configured to use Oracle SES for best performance. Detailed configuration steps are in Section 21.6, Configuring Oracle SES to Search WebCenter Spaces Applications. The information in this chapter is not required if you are choose to use the original WebCenter Search services adapters to search WebCenter objects. Always use Fusion Middleware Control or the WLST command-line tool to review and configure back-end services for WebCenter applications. Any changes that you make to WebCenter applications, post deployment, are stored in MDS metatdata store as customizations. See Section 1.3.5, WebCenter Configuration Considerations. This chapter includes the following sections: ■ Section 21.1, What You Should Know About WebCenter Search with Oracle SES ■ Section 21.2, Configuration Roadmaps for Oracle SES in WebCenter ■ Section 21.3, Prerequisites for using Oracle SES ■ Section 21.4, Setting Up Oracle SES Connections Note: Most changes that you make to Search configuration, through Fusion Middleware Control or using WLST, are not dynamic. You must restart the managed server on which the WebCenter application is deployed by default, WC_Spaces for your changes to take effect. See Section 8.2, Starting and Stopping Managed Servers for WebCenter Application Deployments.