Federated search with opensearch or proprietary APIs for Atlassian

2010-09-02 Thread Lukáš Vlček
Hi, Does anybody have any experience with building federated search using opensearch and/or proprietary APIs of Atlassian's products? Many Atlassian's products have built in full-text search modules (running on top of Lucene I think) that provide interesting and sometimes quite advanced search fe

Re: Federated search with opensearch or proprietary APIs for Atlassian

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Lu
I understand your point. But Atlassian does not have a stable search API and you can not do too much with it. It's better to have a separate search engine, where you can have most of the features, like facet search, ranking, pagination, etc, done for you(see my signature). And you will be more fle

Re: Federated search with opensearch or proprietary APIs for Atlassian

2010-09-02 Thread mark harwood
A pretty thorough exploration of the issues in federated search here: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/271/ I'd add "security" i.e. authentication and authorisation to the list of issues to be considered (key in some environments). If you consolidate content in a centralised Solr/Lucene indexing