About Customizing Exalead CloudView

You can create the following custom components:

  • Connectors for your data sources

  • Document processors

  • Query processors to reinterpret user queries

  • Prefix handlers to reinterpret parts of user queries

  • Search runners to customize the whole search processing pipeline

  • Security sources

  • Mashup Builder feeds, triggers, or widgets

    Note: Mashup Builder is in a separate bundle. See the Exalead CloudView Mashup Programmer's Guide.

  • Resources

Important: Code hosted by a custom process cannot use plugins (because of classloader issues).

This page discusses:

See Also
Creating Custom Components for CloudView

Develop and Deploy Components Using the Eclipse Plugin

The Exalead CloudView Eclipse plugin helps you to develop and deploy plugins in Eclipse Indigo 3.7 or later.

The plugin documentation is available at http://eclipse.exalead.com .

You can develop custom components for:

  • Exalead CloudView core
    • Connectors
    • Document Processors
    • Meta Processors
    • Prefix Handlers
    • Push API Filters
    • Query Processors
    • Security Sources
  • Exalead CloudView Mashup
    • Widgets
    • Feeds
    • Feed Triggers
    • Mashup Triggers
    • Pre-Request Triggers
    • MEL Functions
    • Security Providers

Why Use It

  • Easy deployment: you can package your plugin with customized components to export and deploy automatically on the selected instance of Exalead CloudView. For Mashup Builder, this avoids rebuilding and redeploying the standalone-mashup-ui.war package for each customized item.

  • Quick export: you can package your plugin with classes that you want to export and then export it as a zip file on a selected path.

  • Manage installs: you can list the deployed plugins on a selected instance of Exalead CloudView and then select the plugins to remove.