On Oct 27, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
Hi,
I can't believe this idea received no replies!
It did:
http://lucene.markmail.org/message/hb4v3qqbgu5d6dhi?q=documentum ;-)
I wonder how many companies are already doing what Mark described
here. ;)
In any case, I think this is HUGE. If you believe any of the
enterprise search pundits, these connectors are essential to get
Solr to be recognized as "enterprise ready".
Yeah, I think it makes sense. The more we can do to make it easy for
Solr to get data in, the better IMO.
----- Original Message ----
From: mark harwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: solr-dev@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:24:40 AM
Subject: Idea: Add Documentum/Sharepoint/FileNet etc connectivity
by emulating a Google Search Appliance's feed interface
Google open-sourced (Apache license) the framework it uses for
getting content
from a number of document repositories into a Google Search
Appliance (their
hardware+software solution for enterprise search).
My suggestion is that Solr could also make use of these connectors
simply by
opening a port that honours the wire-protocol that is used to feed
content into
a Google Search Appliance (architecture overview is here:
http://tinyurl.com/4puke8 ). You can see how connectors push data
in the
"sendData" method in "GsaFeedConnection" in the connector manager
framework
(source here: http://tinyurl.com/49cehd ).
Before a connector starts pushing content it needs to be configured
and the
Google Search Appliance admin screens are used to set this up. The
GSA appliance
has some form of conversation with connectors to understand what
properties need
setting and to set them but this again could be added with Solr
providing an
equivalent admin screen driven by the same information provided by
connectors.
The other form of conversation conducted is around authentication
when query
results are about to be presented to users.
This isn't something I have any time to work on but it seems like
an interesting
project so I thought I'd mention it in case anyone here has the
time or interest
in pursuing it.
It would open Solr up to some new environments by making use of
existing
connectors provided by some large commercial organisations.
Cheers,
Mark
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