Hi Anupam,
Please post emails like this directly to
connectors-user@incubator.apache.org. See below for responses.
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Anupam Bhattacharya
<anupam...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Karl,
I am a software programmer in DuPont, Gurgaon, India. Recently, due to the
economic instability all over the world the company has decided to go for
cheaper Search Engine Applications. Thus we are getting rid of many costly
proprietary Search Applications and will be replacing with FAST.
Although, I recently came across SOLR search engine& ManiFoldCF Connector
framework. Thus, I am currently driving this effort within my company as i
am a big supporter of open source technologies. I started my career in
Alfresco CMS and now working on Search Technologies.
Currently I am facing lots of initial building/deploying/installing issues.
I have already referred the url
http://incubator.apache.org/connectors/en_US/how-to-build-and-deploy.html
Read it multiple times but still face many issues. I downloaded the latest
0.4 version and it seems the documentation is not up to date on the above
link.
The online documentation is pertinent to trunk. The documentation you
want to use is contained within the 0.4-incubating release. Go to
dist/doc and you will see it there.
Few issues which took me a long time to resolve which can be added in
ManifoldCF wiki as learnings for others are listed below:
a. No single example is given for running the executecommand.bat with proper
arguments. Only list of commands given with parameter defined.
I'm not entirely sure I get this. Do you just want an example in the
documentation?
b. Setting where and which file for the property manifoldcf.configfile for
deploying the war on tomcat with Postgresql database.
The documentation already tells you that you need to add an
appropriate -D to your tomcat invocation to point to your
properties.xml file. Tomcat documentation differs from version to
version and platform to platform on how best to do that, and if you
run under Windows there's even a service wrapper with a configuration
UI that allows you to set these parameters. So it's way beyond
ManifoldCF's mission to describe all that, I think.
c. I am trying to build the Documentum Connector but came to know that some
additional environment variables needs to be added for "DOCUMENTUM".
Additionally the latest version of documentum uses dfc.properties file while
run.bat look for dctl.ini file.
Could you open a ticket in Jira for this issue?
https://issues.apache.org/jira. It should not be a problem if you
modify the script temporarily, but we can readily make the script look
for either of these.
d. postgresql driver is jdbc3 thus it creates problem with JVM6 or above.
We use JDK 6 all the time without problems, so I don't know what you
are talking about here.
e. I was getting errors during the ant build which tries to delete jar
files from lib directory. Don't have the source code right now with me thus
cant provide the full path.
It sounds like you were trying to run ant while you still had
ManifoldCF processes running from the same tree.
f. It was advised in the documentation to set MCF_Home for
example_multiprocess project but it seems the build of documentum connector
refers to this property differently from run.bat.
Yes, this was noticed and fixed on trunk recently.
Can you please update the Apache ManifoldCF website with the latest
installation procedures. Also, It will be very kind of you in the meanwhile
if you can send few notes for me to head start the configuration of
ManifoldCF, with SOLR& Documentum connector.
The documentation online has been updated to be consistent with trunk,
so if you want to use the trunk version this might be a good
opportunity to help clarify the documentation. Either that or you
will need to stick with the 0.4-incubating release and the
0.4-incubating documentation that is part of it; we cannot at this
time update documentation that has already been released.
Thanks,
Karl
Looking forward for your help.
Thanks& Regards
Anupam Bhattacharya
