The following are the common external sources of product data:
Common external sources of product data that you can load into your Guided Search applications include the following:
For information about how to load product data into your application from sources such as these, see Loading product data.
You can also load data from the following external sources:
Custom external data sources, accessed through the CAS Extension API. For more information, see Loading product data from a custom data source.
File systems, delimited files, Endeca record files, and databases (JDBC) can be accessed through processes known as crawls. You create and configure crawls through the Workbench CAS Console. For information about creating and configuring crawls, refer to the Oracle Commerce Content Acquisition System Developer's Guide. This guide contains no further information about crawls.
