The CAS Server and the Web Crawler create Endeca records ready for processing by any type of Forge pipeline (baseline or partial).

The CAS Server stores the records in either a Record Store instance or in a file on disk. By default record storage is written to a Record Store instance. The Web Crawler stores records, by default, in a file on disk but can be configured to store records in a Record Store instance. (Using a Record Store instance is the recommended approach.)

To read the records into a Forge pipeline, you add an input record adapter to your Developer Studio project.

If the record adapter is reading from a CAS output file, you specify the input format of either XML or binary (depending on how you configure the output format). The URL field of the record adapter specifies the location of the CAS output file.

If the record adapter is reading from a Record Store instance, you configure the record adapter as a custom adapter.

Depending on the needs of your application, you can create these types of Forge pipelines:

Regardless of the type of Forge pipeline, you create it as well as perform the rest of the back-end application tasks (such as creating properties and dimensions, search interfaces, and so on) with Developer Studio.


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