This week I got my hands on the tech preview of the new MondoSearch integration pack for EPiServer, and have got to say that I'm really liking the look of it so far. This new version provides much tighter integration with EPiServer and exposes a lot more MondoSearch functionality directly in the EPiServer UI.
The first thing you notice are the new MondoSearch and Behavior Tracking tabs in edit mode. The MondoSearch tab allows you to search over pages in edit mode, similar to the standard search box but is not limited to searching the page name and id fields. The Behavior Tracking tab is the best thing though, integrating some of the analytics and reports from Behavior Tracker directly into EPiServer.
There's some new functionality in admin mode too. From the admin mode tool plug-in you can configure the MondoSearch integration, start the crawler, view the log and check on its status.
To make all this possible three new web services have been created, MSService, BTService and IMService. These web services along with the existing SearchService provide the underlying infrastructure for the new integration pack. The web services use the same MQL query language that you may be familiar with if you have developed with MondoSearch before, for executing requests to a MondoSearch instance.
Anyway, it's looking great and is a much more flexible solution with the web service interfaces. It's currently slated for a mid October 2006 release so will look forward to that date, in the mean time I'll look give the tech preview a thorough work over and will post more about it here soon.
If you want a copy of the tech preview you will need to contact Mondosoft, I sent my request to sales@mondosoft.com.
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