RE: Integrating Excalibur with an Oracle-based application

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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