The external data service (EDS) plug-in provides the function
of making your EDS service work in IBM® Content
Navigator.
Before you begin
You must create your external data service, compile the project,
build the WAR file, and deploy the WAR file into your web application
server.
About this task
This plug-in supports integration of data from an external
data source into
IBM Content
Navigator.
To use this plug-in, you must create a service to pass the data from
the external data source to
IBM Content
Navigator.
You can use this external data to customize field properties and manage
property behavior in
IBM Content
Navigator.
Procedure
To configure the EDS plug-in:
- In the IBM Content
Navigator administration
tool, click Plug-ins, and then open External
Data Services Support to edit the plug-in.
- Load the edsPlugin.jar file. In the IBM Content
Navigator administration tool,
in the configuration options for the plug-in, define the fully qualified
URL or the file path to the edsPlugin.jar file:
- Enter the URL in the following sample format: http://host_name:port_number/ECMClient_installdir/plugins/edsPlugin.jar.
- Enter the path to the file that is installed on the server, for
example:
- Microsoft Windows: C:\Program Files\IBM\ECMClient\plugins\edsPlugin.jar
- Linux or AIX®: /opt/IBM/ECMClient/plugins/edsPlugin.jar
The ECMClient folder is the IBM Content
Navigator installation directory.
- After the edsPlugin.jar file is loaded,
you must specify the fully qualified URL to where the EDS plug-in
is deployed. For example, you can specify: http://host_name:port_number/sampleEDSService.
- Click Save and Close.
- Refresh your web browser.