===== Features =====

  * Modular design (OSGi)
    * Exchangeable search-providers
    * Exchangeable crawlers
    * Exchangeable parsers
    * Exchangeable URL/content-filters
  * Flexible build system: [[http://maven.apache.org/|Apache Maven]]
  * Support for all prevalent protocols (HTTP, FTP, SMB/CIFS, ...)
  * Support for prevalent data formats (HTML, Text, PDF, DOC, ...)
  * Support for prevalent APIs
    * [[http://www.opensearch.org/|OpenSearch]]
    * [[http://dbus.freedesktop.org/|DBus]]
    * [[http://www.json.org/|Json]]/REST API
  * Pre-installed content filters
    * RegExp based blacklist filter
    * [[http://www.robotstxt.org/|robots.txt]] support
  * HTTP based web interface for administration purposes
    * [[http://openid.net/|OpenID]] support
    * SSL support
    * Dynamically extensible by
      * ''javax.servlet'' servlets
      * [[http://velocity.apache.org/|Apache Velocity]] servlets
  * Dynamically extensible Desktop integration

===== Overview flow of information =====
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