Hi Bert :-) Do you want to query 3rd party repositories, or use 3rd party tools to index content inside Zope? In the former case, I have successfully wrapped a search against a Sharepoint server by overriding searchResults to query more than one source. The tricky point is that there will not be a 1-1 mapping between indexes in both catalogs. Something like this is very brittle, e.g. sensitive to unexpected API changes in the 3rd party server. With sharepoint I was able to query it using their dav/sql interface. In the latter case, depending on the engine you could query Zope through familiar interfaces for its content - for example, can't you just point Autonomy at a website and ask it to spider it? Once again you will have some problems with mapping between indexes. In either case, I doubt it would be possible to build a general-purpose "integration" framework (and I'm not aware of one which exists); you'd have to write a new one for each 3rd party engine. Regards, seb Bert Vanderbauwhede wrote:

Hi,

Are there any (ZCatalog-like) products that can be used to integrate 3rd party search engines (such as Autonomy, Convera, or Verity) with Zope?

Bert Vanderbauwhede...