6 Develop Content Connectors

You can use the Oracle Content Management connector framework to develop your own content connectors to bring content you have already created elsewhere into Oracle Content Management, manage it centrally, and use it in new experiences across multiple channels.

Part of Oracle Content Management, the connector framework integrates with remote content stores to let you bring content into Oracle Content Management as easily as uploading files from your desktop. You can plug in any type of content store to Oracle Content Management, making it a content hub.

The connector framework abstracts the functionality that is provided and implemented by end connectors. It does so by providing the REST API interface to configure a content connector as well as to call content-related APIs on the end store, like browsing the remote file system and copying the files from a remote store to Oracle Content Management.

The following sections describe how to develop custom content connectors: