Welcome to Aspire!

Industrial strength content processing for search applications

 Create solutions to acquire data from content repositories. Extract metadata and text from the sources. Analyze, modify, and enhance content and metadata. Publish to a search engine or other target application. 

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FAQ & Troubleshooting

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Get Started & Install Aspire

Use Aspire for a variety of applications: enterprise search, staffing & recruitment, state and federal government, records management, legal research, corporate intranet, connecting content repositories, and analyzing & grouping content for localization.

Introduction

Prerequisites

Install Aspire, an Aspire connector application, and an Aspire publisher application. You'll get an idea of how to install Aspire applications using the Aspire Admin UI.

Installation overview

Basic tutorial

Quick start with distribution archetype

Admin UI & Aspire Administration

Learn about how to use the Aspire 3.2 (Alder) UI. Features include HTML5 and CSS, responsive design, browser compatibility, server connection detection, real-time configuration validation, and Aspire component independence.

Admin UI Overview

Log in

Audit logs

Content sources

Services

OS License

Servers

Browser compatibility

Configure and maintain Aspire deployments which are managed through the Aspire Admin UI. One Aspire system administrator or several may be responsible for different content sources.

General administration

Content management

Debug & troubleshoot

Settings

The settings.xml configuration file holds environmental information and properties about the Aspire installation as a whole. The application.xml configuration file contains component and pipeline configuration, and document processing information.

General

Security

Failover

Access OSGi

Developer Tasks

Build Aspire deployments dynamically from components and sub-components. Combine components to process data for application needs. Mix Aspire components with custom third-party and new components.

Set up the environment

Create applications

Distributed processing

Aspire for Hadoop

Integrate Aspire with Hadoop to create big data solutions using Aspire configuration pipelines.

Install Aspire Hadoop

Develop with Hadoop

Hadoop components

Libraries

Libraries contain extensible components designed to allow you to create solutions to acquire data from content repositories.

Applications

Components

Connectors

Publishers

Services

Solutions

Workflow applications

Next steps

Access notes about recent Aspire releases, articles to help you complete tasks, and information about how to upgrade Aspire.

Aspire release notes

How to articles

Upgrade to a newer version