Building Your Text Application

This chapter introduces the main features of interMedia Text to help you design and build your query application. The examples in this chapter are based on the out-of-box default behavior.

To build a query application, you must understand the users and roles associated with interMedia text. These are described in the next section, "interMedia Text Users and Roles".

The general steps for building a query application are the following:

1. Load the documents. See "Loading Documents" in this chapter.

2. Index the documents. See "Indexing" in this chapter.

3. Issue queries. See "Querying" in this chapter.

4. Present the documents that satisfy a query. See "Document Presentation and Highlighting" in this chapter.

The sections that follow give a general overview of these tasks.

Code Samples Directory

Code samples are included in your Oracle8i interMedia Text installation. You can view these samples by pointing your browser to the following file:

$ORACLE_HOME/ctx/sample/api/index.html

These code samples illustrate the SQL and PL/SQL interface for interMedia Text. The examples are intended for programmers already familiar with interMedia Text concepts.

The examples contain .sql files you execute in SQL*Plus and .sh files you execute at the command line.

Typically, you run several files in sequence to illustrate a given feature. You can access each sequence via links from an HTML page which provides further explanation where appropriate.