Chapter 5 - CAS

CAS can stored in 2 formats

• • "Record Store instances"

    • Binary/XML file

• The "last-mile-crawl" of the project takes the data and configuration to create Dgidx-compatible input for MDEX

  • CAS Service

    • servlet runs in tomcat

    • CAS Server

    • Component Instance Manager (CIM) - use to create, delete and view Record Store components

    • Dimension Value Id Manager - creates, stores and retrieve dim val ID

    • Record Stores - one per data source

    • runs on port 8500

    • cas-cmd.bat can run various CAS operations

• CAS Server

  • accessible via web-services

  • supports full, incremental and probe crawls

    • can use "Document Conversion Module" to convert word and pdf files

  • Command line utils

    • cas-cmd - creates and manage data source crawl

    • component-manager-cmd - list, create, delete components (datastore)

    • recordstore-cmd.bat - use to create, delete and view Record Store components

    • recordstore-cmd.bat - get content from recordstore, last commit transaction

    • check out CAS Developer's guide

Record Store