Adding a custom plug-in to the Oracle Commerce Web Crawler

This topic offers an overview of how to add your custom plug-in to the Oracle Commerce Web Crawler.

To add a custom plug-in to the Oracle Commerce Web Crawler:

  1. Open Eclipse and load your custom plug-in project.

  2. Use Eclipse to write the Java code for your new class.

  3. Create the plugin.xml file for the new plug-in.

  4. Build the JAR file for your new plug-in.

  5. Create a directory for the plug-in (containing the JAR file and plugin.xml) and copy it to the CAS/version/lib/web-crawler/plugins directory.

  6. Activate the plug-in by adding the plug-in 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 plug-in added.

See following topics for more detailed explanations of the above steps.

Copyright © Legal Notices