Creating a Simple Search Application

This chapter describes how to build an SBA following the recommended methodology.

This chapter is a tutorial following the plan presented in Creating an Application (Methodology). For each section, we will describe the fundamentals of each methodology step, and use a sample database to illustrate them with examples.

This tutorial will also help you to familiarize with two main components of Exalead CloudView:

• The Administration Console to configure indexing and search.

• The Mashup Builder to configure how search results display in the Mashup UI.

Defining the Application Scope
Adding a Connector
Creating the Data Model
Configuring the Search Bar Behavior
Preparing the Content to Display in the Search Results
Defining the Refinement Facets
Creating the Front-end Application with Mashup Builder