Welcome to the Google Enterprise Connector Manager project!

The Google Enterprise connector framework enables the Google Search Appliance to search and serve documents stored in non-Web repositories, such as enterprise content management systems. An enterprise content management (ECM) system provides a central repository for large numbers of documents.

The Connector Manager is the central part of the connector framework for the Google Search Appliance. The Connector Manager itself manages creation, instantiation, scheduling and monitoring of connectors that supply content and provide authentication and authorization services to the Google Search Appliance.

Note: This system depends on Google Search Appliance 5.0 (Minimum recommended configuration is 5.0.4G22 with VM Patch #1). Connectors developed for this framework will NOT work with previously released versions of the Google Search Appliance.

Update: Connector Manager release 2.8.0 is now available on the Downloads page.

This release has significant infrastructure changes, fixes several problems, and adds several new utility classes to the connector SPI for the benefit of connector developers. For details, see the Release Notes.