Component Development Topics (Aspire 2)

This page contains a library of additional component programming topics.

Main Topics:

• Development FAQ - Answers to many common problems!
• Connector Topics

Developer Environment Setup

• Developer Environment Setup Instructions - Maven, Eclipse, M2Eclipse, Jira, JDK, etc.
• Connecting to the Search Technologies Maven Repository
• Connecting your Maven POM file to the Search Technologies Repository
• Eclipse plus Maven
• Creating a New Pipeline Stage
• Editing New Stages Inside Eclipse

Additional Topics:

• Accessing Other Components - OSGi friendly method for accessing other components from your component
• Programming Components which use the Branch Handler
• Programming components to use the Metadata Mapper
• Techniques for Unit Testing
• Creating Admin Pages for Components
• Adding Logging to your Component
• Reporting Status - How to override the getStatus() properly to report status from your component to the admin user interface
• How to Include Third-Party Jars in Your Component
• Calling out to a 3rd Party jar from Groovy
• Creating Non-Stage Components - Such as feeders and shared data sources
• Handling Components with Long Initialization Times - Using background threads for initialization
• Modifying pipeline stages to support job batching
• Using Dynamic XML Forms (DXF)
• Aspire Startup Procedure
• Exception Error Resolution List
• Password Decryption
• AspireObject XPath