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About Customizing Exalead CloudView
 
Customization Workflow
Develop and Deploy Components Using the Eclipse Plugin
You can create the following custom components:
• Connectors for your data sources
• Document processors
• Query processors to reinterpret user queries
• Prefix handlers to reinterpret parts of user queries
• Search runners to customize the whole search processing pipeline
• Security sources
• Mashup Builder feeds, triggers, or widgets
Note: Mashup Builder is in a separate bundle. See the Exalead CloudView Mashup Programmer's Guide.
• Resources
Important: Code hosted by a custom process cannot use plugins (because of classloader issues).
Customization Workflow
To create custom components manually, the workflow is the following:
1. Create your custom CVComponents.
2. Package your component as plugin. See Package a Plugin
3. Deploy the plugin as:
• A cvplugin, see Deploy a Plugin.
• Or a devplugin, see Work with Plugins in Development Mode.
Develop and Deploy Components Using the Eclipse Plugin
The Exalead CloudView Eclipse plugin helps you to develop and deploy plugins in Eclipse Indigo 3.7 or later.
The plugin documentation is available at http://eclipse.exalead.com .
You can develop custom components for:
• Exalead CloudView core
◦ Connectors
◦ Document Processors
◦ Meta Processors
◦ Prefix Handlers
◦ Push API Filters
◦ Query Processors
◦ Security Sources
• Exalead CloudView Mashup
◦ Widgets
◦ Feeds
◦ Feed Triggers
◦ Mashup Triggers
◦ Pre-Request Triggers
◦ MEL Functions
◦ Security Providers
Why Use It
• Easy deployment: you can package your plugin with customized components to export and deploy automatically on the selected instance of Exalead CloudView. For Mashup Builder, this avoids rebuilding and redeploying the standalone-mashup-ui.war package for each customized item.
• Quick export: you can package your plugin with classes that you want to export and then export it as a zip file on a selected path.
• Manage installs: you can list the deployed plugins on a selected instance of Exalead CloudView and then select the plugins to remove.