Introduction

Welcome to the Google Search Appliance Connector Manager project wiki!

The Google Search Appliance connector framework enables Google Search Appliances to search and serve documents stored in non-Web repositories, such as enterprise content management systems. An enterprise content management (ECM) system provides a central repository for large numbers of documents.

The Connector Manager is the central part of the connector framework for Google Search Appliances. It is responsible for hosting and running connectors built with this framework. The connector manager also manages all communications between search appliances and connectors.

A connector communicates with an ECM system in response to requests from the connector manager. To manage your connectors, you'll run the connector manager on any application server that provides a servlet interface, such as Apache Tomcat. The Google Search Appliance communicates with the connector manager running on your application server using a servlet interface.

The Connector Manager itself manages creation, instantiation, scheduling and monitoring of connectors that supply content and provide authentication and authorization services to the Google Search Appliance. The connector manager calls the SPI methods at stated intervals to perform the tasks of authentication, authorization, and traversal of content at the repository.

Some important disclaimers:

• This system depends on a Google Search Appliance 5.0 release.
• Connectors developed for this framework will NOT work with previously released Google Search Appliances!
• The documentation in this wiki is informal and unsupported.

This wiki is maintained by the development team itself.

Documentation Links

• Google Connector Developer's Guide - Introduction
• DeveloperEnvironmentSetup Some hints on getting started as a developer
• EclipseTomcatDebug Tips on how to attach Eclipse to a running Tomcat instance

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