Oracle text query

Hi,
I have a View object with various attributes (eg, name1, name2, name3, address1, address2, address3 etc). A query/table component based on this view object works just fine. However, I wish to replace name1, name2, name3 and other attributes in the query with just 'name'. These attributes are still to be shown in the result table. This new 'name' attribute will be used in an Oracle Text query clause, instead of individual searches on each attribute.
My plan was to simply make the various name1, name2 etc attributes non-'queryable' in the View def to hide them from the query. Then I'd add a transient 'name' attribute. My hope was, that I could override the getWhereClause() in the ViewObjectImpl and simply tack on the oracle text clause to the WHERE (example below):
WHERE CONTAINS (
SOMECOLUMN,
'<query>
<textquery lang="ENGLISH" grammar="CONTEXT">TRANSIENT_ATTR_VALUE
..... Oracle Text query grammar stuff here .... </query>') > 0How do I access the transient value in the ViewObjectImpl to add the above SQL? Or am I going about this in completely the wrong way?
thanks,
Barry.

Based on what I found in
http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/09-nov/o69frame.html?_template=/ocom/print
and
http://blogs.oracle.com/smuenchadf/examples/
136.     Introducing a Checkbox to Toggle a Custom SQL Predicate on an LOV's Search Form. [11.1.1.0.0] 19-NOV-2008
I have the following implementation, which seems to work. Does anyone see any problems with this?
With regard to SQL injection, does ViewCriteriaItem sanitise the 'val' from the query, or should I do that manually here myself?
    @Override
    public java.lang.String getCriteriaItemClause(ViewCriteriaItem vci) {
        if ("OraTextTransientAttrib".equals(vci.getAttributeDef().getName())) {
            if (vci.getViewCriteria().isCriteriaForQuery()) {
                String val = (String)vci.getValue();
                logger.debug("Doing oracle text name search on '" + val + "'");
                // simplified version of my oracle text query
                return "CONTAINS ('<query>..... " + val + "....</query>') > 0 ";
            } else {
                // SQL predicate for no changes to the results
                // spaces needed if you have several of these blocks
                return " 1=1 ";
        // other blocks for other similar oracle text attribs
        return super.getCriteriaItemClause(vci);
    }

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DESIGN
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REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
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Hm, I see. It do make sense. so nice to know.
But then in the second example I gift where I used larger table, as shown below :
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DESIGN
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DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
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REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
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The problem is that the query response time is much higher after some time of inactivity regarding those tables. How can I avoid this behavior?. The fact is that those inactivity times (not more than 20min) are core to my application, so I always get long long response times for my queries.
Is there any cache or cache time parameter that affects this behavior? I have checked the Oracle Text documentation without finding anything about that...
More data: I am using Oracle 9.2.0.1, but I have tested with the latest patches an the behavior is the same...
Thank you very much in advance.

Pablo,
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