The Oracle Commerce Content Acquisition System is a set of components that add, configure, and crawl data sources for use in an Oracle Commerce application. Data sources include file systems, content management systems, Web servers, and custom data sources. The Oracle Commerce Content Acquisition System crawls data sources, converts documents and files to Endeca records, modifies the records if necessary, and then typically writes MDEX-compatible output for use by Dgidx.

The following image shows the Oracle Commerce Content Acquisition System components as they work together in a typical implementation:

For details about each CAS component shown above, see the CAS Developer's Guide.