Splunk: Modular Inputs

Posted by Hani Atalla on October 06, 2016 Development, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Development, Modular Input

I often blog about Drupal, but recently I worked on a Splunk App, so thought about sharing my experience because it was an interesting one.  For that Splunk App, I was on the Function1 Slack channel posting an endless stream of Splunk related questions and my colleagues provided tremendous support, patiently responding to my non-stop inquiries. It is great working among such a great pool of talented individuals.

The gist of the Splunk App is to dynamically post a JSON request to a RESTful API (the client developed the API) that returns a JSON response, and then send the response to...

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WebCenter Sites 12c Performance with Asset Reader API and Groovy

Posted by Rick Ptasznik on October 04, 2016 Development, Web Experience Management WebCenter Sites 12c, performance, Groovy
WebCenter Sites 12c introduces a number of new APIs to use when building out your sites. The developer documentation puts an emphasis on using an MVC approach that is aided by the new groovy controllers and reader APIs including the new asset reader API. Using an MVC approach to build out a site allows for a nice and clean separation of your business logic from the display logic. You can see the official documenation on all the APIs at http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/wcs/wcs-develop.htm and also at...
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The Open Front Door to your Data - Announcing a White Paper by Function1

Posted by Rishi Das on September 20, 2016 Best Practices, Data Security data security, web applications, cyber security

Generations ago, documents and prized objects were hidden from the public, secured in the safes of many homes, offices, banks, and institutions. Under close protection, as well as under lock and key, this tangible-data was protected from unauthorized parties through the implementation of time-tested procedures. 

As the world changed and technology improved, the methodology for approaching and securing this data changed as well. In our February 2015 White Paper, Protecting the CIA, we discussed the importance in protecting the...

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Fundamentals of WCS' Public Site Search Infrastructure

Posted by Freddy Villalba on September 15, 2016 Web Experience Management Lucene, solr, CacheUpdater

Webcenter Sites ships with Apache Lucene.

Apache Lucene drives:

Asset-oriented search within the Contributor UI. This is automatically set up by default on an standard install. Users can enable / disable it on a per asset type basis as needed. Asset-oriented search through a WCS-driven website's search box (or any equivalent feature). Developers must implement website-specific search logic; WCS provides a very basic API for this purpose.

In this post, we will focus on the fundamental aspects regarding Lucene-driven asset-oriented search in WCS-driven websites.

It is...

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