Using the Mindbreeze Enterprise Search SDK
 

Mindbreeze Enterprise Search - Blog Integration

The Minbreeze SDK Tutorial provides a step by step guide for building a fully functional integration for a Wordpress blogging installation.

 Prerequisites

Please make sure that you have at least JDK 6u11 installed. For easiest use of this sample please use the Apache Ant build tool.

Java Development Kit 6

Apache Ant

 

 Tutorial (Full Download)

 

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Note: In the case that you don't have a WordPress Blog service running at your site please download our virtual machine, which will provide you with the needed test environment and WordPress as a custom data source:

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Download the tutorial stages separately

Objectives of stage 1

 Stage 1 allows you to make your first steps with the Mindbreeze SDK. You start by implementing a simple crawler that sends all blog posts, comments and users of a WordPress installation to the Mindbreeze Enterprise Search Index.

Additionally you will learn how to define a Category Descriptor and how to use Aggregations.
 
After this stage you will
 
 - be familiar with the layout of the stages
 - know the components of an integration
 - have a working integration which allows crawling of blog posts, comments and users of a WordPress blog and searching for them
 - have defined the Category Descriptor
 - have Aggregations available

 

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 Objectives of stage 2

Stage 2 guides you through the steps necessary for providing Search-in Constraints, as well as icons and custom context menus for your search hits.

 
After this stage you will
 
 - know how to define Search-In Constraints
 - be able to specify an icon for each hit-type (blog post, comment and user)
 - have implemented custom context menus

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 Objectives of stage 3

 Stage 3 extends the implementation of context menus and introduces annotated metadata.

 
After this stage you will
 
 - be able to provide context menu entries for issuing subqueries and queries based on the search result
 - have metadata annotated and contextualized

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Objectives of stage 4

Stage 4 completes the sample

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