Integration with IBM Watson Explorer (WEX)

[randalma4460]

We are new to AEM and need to integrate IBM Watson Explorer (WEX) for enterprise search.  Has anyone done this and able to point me to some documentation? 

[smacdonald2008]

There is no integration or connector component between these two products. You would have to create a custom AEM service and integrate with IBM using its Rest API - which it supports. Here is a community article on how to hook a Restful service into AEM.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager bundles that invoke third party Restful web services

(this shows hooking into a Google Restful web service)

[kautuk_sahni · Accepted solution]

Hi  randalma2120

As mentioned by Scott, there is no specific documentation for IBM watson explorer with AEM. But Yes, we can use it with IBM Watson Explorer's rest APIs.

Create a OSGI service or Sling Servlets and write a code to send HTTP request GET/POST in it. 

Example Code :-

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;

String url = "http://www.google.com";InputStream in = null;try {HttpClient client = new HttpClient();PostMethod method = new PostMethod(url);//Add any parameter if u want to send it with Post req.method.addParameter("p", "apple");int statusCode = client.executeMethod(method);if (statusCode != -1) {in = method.getResponseBodyAsStream();}

Use The link provided by Scott and customize it according to your need.

I hope this would help you. 

Thanks and Regards

Kautuk Sahni