Introduction

Aspire is a framework and libraries of extensible components designed to enable creation of solutions to acquire data from one or more content repositories (such as file systems, relational databases, cloud storage, or content management systems), extract metadata and text from the documents, analyze, modify and enhance the content and metadata if needed, and then publish each document, together with its metadata, to a search engine or other target application.

Aspire uses Apache Felix (an open source implementation of OSGi) to install, start, stop, update, and uninstall Aspire components and applications without requiring a reboot, supporting improved up-time and making system administration easier. Each individual piece of processing functionality within Aspire is a modular component that can be used by itself, or in conjunction with other components to create an Aspire application.

An introduction to Aspire applications, including the Pipeline Manager, the concept of job hierarchy, Feeders, Scanners, and the Scheduler, pipeline stages, and Services components

• Quick Start Tutorial for Creating Applications - Aspire in 20 minutes or less

This basic tutorial gets you started with Aspire in 20 minutes or less