In the alfresco explorer page, user enter "advanced search" page(advanced-search.jsp), when user click the search button, the back will call org.alfresco.web.bean.search.AdvancedSearchDialog.search() method:
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// set the Search Context onto the top-level navigator bean
// this causes the browse screen to switch into search results view
this.navigator.setSearchContext(search);
return OUTCOME_BROWSE;
but i cannot found where's the search java code before return OUTCOME_BROWSE;