SESAT Architecture Overview

Overview

SESAT is composed of the following main components:

• SESAT Kernel - Main engine
• SESAT API - Application Programmers Interface
• SESAT SFC - Search Frontend Container
• SESAT ADM - Administrative Portal

The Components

SESAT Kernel

• Analyses queries
• Performs searches, handles timeouts
• Applies analysis and search rules
• Creates the «search result object»
• Handles personalisation

SESAT API – work in progress

• XML-RPC:
  • XML-based API with full support for all services in the kernel.
  • Output configurable on a per-partner basis
  • Security services
• Web Services (WS)
  • QoS governance
  • WS for loosely coupled consumers

SESAT SFC

• The Search Frontend Container allows quick deployment of search application based on the kernel
• Configurable:
  • skins, vhosts, ranking, indexes, analysis rules, navigators and enrichments
• Runs in the same JVM as the kernel for speed

SESAT ADM – source code not released yet

• Administration of analysis and search rules
• Administration of FAST-lists (wordlists)
• User/LDAP administration
• Statistics tools (query analysis, traffic analysis)
• Portal framework (JSR-168 compliant)