Welcome to ManifoldCF!

ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies.

Currently included connectors support FileNet P8 (IBM), Documentum (EMC), LiveLink (OpenText), Patriarch (Memex), Meridio (Autonomy), Windows shares (Microsoft), and SharePoint (Microsoft). Also included are a general file system connector, a general JDBC connector, a general RSS crawler, and a general web crawler. Currently supported targets include Apache Solr and QBase (formerly MetaCarta) GTS. The complete repository compatibility list can be found here.

The original ManifoldCF code base was granted by MetaCarta, Inc., to the Apache Software Foundation in December 2009. The MetaCarta effort represented more than five years of successful development and testing in multiple, challenging enterprise environments.

Apache ManifoldCF (formerly Apache Connectors Framework) is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Lucene PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

Apache ManifoldCF 0.1-incubating is available! Download it here.

Many of the connectors included with ManifoldCF currently require third-party libraries, packages, or other licensed materials in order to be built. The code for these connectors can be distributed under Apache guidelines because they are conditionally compiled; that is, you as a developer must supply the necessary third-party components before the connector will build. While we have every intention of trying to reduce the number of affected connectors by means of clean-room development under the auspices of ASF, realistically the current situation will not change in any dramatic way very quickly. The focus of this group remains primarily on providing solutions.

The required libraries, tools, and procedures for building each of these connectors are well documented in the Wiki pages for this project.

20 March 2011 - ManifoldCF 0.2-incubating release candidate is built!

Release candidate made available to developer community for evaluation

31 January 2011 - ManifoldCF 0.1-incubating is released!

Developer community and Apache Incubator sign off on first release

03 October 2010 - Apache Connectors Framework officially becomes Apache ManifoldCF

Developer community approves second name change

19 August 2010 - Lucene Connectors Framework officially becomes Apache Connectors Framework

Developer community approves name change

07 July 2010 - Lucene Connectors Framework first release proposed

Criteria for LCF's first official release proposed

21 May 2010 - Lucene Connectors Framework in Prague

LCF introductory talk planned for Lucene/Solr Eurocon, Prague, Czech Republic

12 January 2010 - Lucene Connectors Framework launches!

LCF officially becomes an incubating project of the Apache Software Foundation