The IBM Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) is a federated search gateway that provides a rich development environment for the composition of mass customized applications or views.
This IBM Redbook describes one example of a Content Manager installation, based on the Windows NT platform for a Web enabled system configuration. We outline the steps for installing and configuring the necessary Content Manager components and prerequisites for this example, based on our configuration.
This redbook also discusses how to build a Java client application to search the Content Manager datastore. Our application is written as Java servlets, using the IBM WebSphere application server. With this client application, we can perform three types of searches: a parametric search, a text search, and a combined search which executes a parametric search and a text search at the same time and produces, as a result, the combined set of the two searches.
We also discuss the design and development of a Lotus Notes based client application for the content servers using the EIP Java APIs.
