Introduction

Connectors provide the connection between Knowledge Discovery and the repositories that your organization uses for storing and organizing information.

You can use connectors to keep your Knowledge Discovery index up-to-date with the information in a repository (using the synchronize fetch action) and to retrieve files, or lists of files on demand (the collect, view, and identifiers fetch actions). Connectors can also allow you to insert, update or delete information in the repository itself (the insert, update, and delete fetch actions), and apply legal holds (the hold and releasehold fetch actions). A connector can provide all of this functionality, or just some of it.

This document is for software developers who are familiar with Java and want to write new connectors using the ConnectorLib Java SDK.

ConnectorLib Java SDK

ConnectorLib Java is a framework for writing new connectors. It provides much of the functionality required by all connectors, so that you can focus on your specific requirements.

The framework provides features that allow a connector to:

  • Communicate with CFS
  • Communicate with OmniGroupServer
  • Handle incoming ACI requests
  • Read its configuration file
  • Write to log files
  • Run tasks according to a schedule
  • Store persistent state information (the Datastore)
  • Manipulate documents (files and metadata)

Using ConnectorLib Java to develop your connector helps ensure that it looks and behaves like a standard connector. Other Knowledge Discovery components can communicate with the connector as they would with any other connector, and your connector can communicate with OpenText products such as CFS and OmniGroupServer.

The Knowledge Discovery Platform

For more information about Knowledge Discovery, refer to the Getting Started Guide.