Plugins are components or resources that can be hot plugged
without restarting the product. They are installed in the DATADIR, and are
therefore instance-wide.
To load your custom code in
Exalead CloudView,
it must be packaged as a CVPlugin. You can then easily upload it in the
Administration Console.
Plugins can include special component classes, such as connectors,
security sources, format converters, analysis processors, etc. They can also
include other materials, such as resources (linguistics, statistics, etc.).
Each component class within a plugin can have its own configuration. For
example, a connector, will usually have user-defined settings, which will be
edited through the
Administration Console >
Connectors menu. The framework will handle: