For many development environments, it often makes sense to create the content of repository items directly on a file system, then load those items into an ATG repository. The ATG Repository Loader provides a flexible way to take files that are stored in a file system, convert them into repository items, and load the items into the repository.
The Repository Loader can load into an SQL repository HTML files, XML files, and binary media such as image or audio files. The Repository Loader uses ATG’s xml2repository system to transform files into XML files that use the xml2repository schema, then transform the XML files into repository items.
You can configure the Repository Loader to perform the load operation in two ways:
Scan the file system and identify the files to load, then load the files on command or on a specified schedule.
Submit a manifest file to the Repository Loader that specifies the files to load.
Scanning the file system requires less administrative effort; using a manifest file incurs less system overhead. The number of files to scan and load generally determines which option is best.
This chapter includes the following sections:
