Chapter 9. Indexing, Search, and Workflow

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume of traffic to websites from search engines via natural search results. The portal is used to build public websites. It provides a wide range of features to help make SEO-friendly websites showing up at top of search results.

The portal provides indexing-search capabilities to search for web content in any websites, both organization's and site's. The portlets, such as, Search, OpenSearch, and Web Content Search, by default, are powered by the Apache Lucene search engine. As an alternative to Lucene, the portal supports pluggable search engines.

The portal framework is widely open to integrating third-party workflow engines. And the portal itself provides a workflow engine called the Kaleo workflow, allowing the users to define any number of simple to complex business processes, to deploy them, and to manage them through the portal interface. These business processes have...