Adding a custom plugin to the Endeca Web Crawler

This topic provides an overview of how to add a custom plugin to the Endeca Web Crawler.

1. Open Eclipse and load your custom plugin project.
2. Use Eclipse to write the Java code for your new class.
3. Create the plugin.xml file for the new plugin.
4. Build the JAR file for your new plugin.
5. Create a directory for the plugin (containing the JAR file and plugin.xml) and copy it to the IAS\<version>\lib\web-crawler\plugins directory.
6. Activate the plugin by adding the plugin ID to the plugins.include property in the site.xml configuration file.
7. Run the Web Crawler and verify that record output contains the new properties that the plugin added.