Some of the features of the eRoom connector include:
The eRoom connector retrieves several types of documents, listed below are the inclusions and exclusions of these documents.
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Due to API limitations, the eRoom connector has the following limitations:
Multi-Threads Technical limitation
With Aspire 4.0 we introduced a multi-threading platform to perform crawls, but because of architecture / API limitations the eRoom Connector only works as single thread connector. It seems to be that the server does not allow multiple connections performing queries at the same time.
At some point of the crawl, the connector get this errors from the server "No target objects were found evaluating the command's select attribute" but the query that we are trying to execute works well (we tested using a SOAP/XML Test program provided for EMC).
Also, if you look at the latest comments in this post from the EMC forums (eRoom Forum); it seems that eRoom is not multi-thread safe. When multiple processes are spawned, you will get unpredictable behavior. Because of this reason, the eRoom Connector is single threaded - this will affect Aspire 4.0's performance as it cannot utilize its multi-threaded platform on the eRoom connector.
The connector will use SOAP / XML over HTTP or HTTPs to acquire information of eRoom content. The connector acquires content by doing the following: