You will find the list of deployed J2EE compatible web services on your
host at the following location: http://localhost:8080/jbossws. From
there you can view all the web services descriptions
(WSDL files).
Nuxeo EP provides a WebService API that enables an external indexer to index the documents that are inside the Nuxeo repository. In this scenario, Nuxeo keeps it's internal indexing backend, and may contiue to use it for search.
This service is provided as an addon called
nuxeo-platform-indexing-gateway that need to be deployed
in the nuxeo.ear/plugins directory.
The data exchange between the external indexer and Nuxeo is done in a pull mode: the external indexer queries Nuxeo for new documents to index.
Here is a simple summary of the responsibilities between the external indexer and Nuxeo server:
Externalindexer:
query nuxeo to know what document may be indexed
query nuxeo to get document informations
manages indexing configuration
Nuxeo:
provides an API to browse repository
provides an API to know what documents needs to be indexed
may include some transformation of data before exportation to make
external indexer easier (like ACP/ACL/ACE preprocessing) may notify external indexer that some data need to be (re)indexed