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Summary

This guide provides a general description of how to develop a Content Provider for the CA DataMinder Content Services.

By default, CA DataMinder uses Autonomy IDOL as the database system for its Content Classification Service. CA DataMinder comes with a Content Provider that interfaces with the Autonomy IDOL database. You can develop a custom content provider that interfaces with your own database system.

The intended audience is the developer or team tasked with the implementation of a Content Provider. The reader must be familiar with CA DataMinder's terminology and general architecture. The reader must be fluent with the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM).

Read this document together with the Content Provider interface definitions file (ICISContentProvider.idl) and the Content Provider XML example and documentation (CISContentProvider.xml).

The introduction gives an overview of Content Providers and includes a summary of the required main characteristics of a Content Provider. The guide then provides a detailed look at the implementation of the entry point of a Content Provider, and its indexing and searching functions.

Note: The CA DataMinder product documentation and log messages refer to Content Providers as ‘Content Connectors’. The term Content Provider is used in the code and in all the APIs, and is therefore used in this guide.