Hello all,
On 4.11.2010 22:18, Marcel Offermans wrote:
Hello Steve,
On 4 Nov 2010, at 17:08 , Steven Siebert wrote:
In previous discussions with Brett Porter (CC'ed) he I and I discussed
working together on exposing the archiva jackrabbit-based maven repo through
an OBR interface. In what we discussed this afternoon, I think there could
be an opportunity to cross-pollinate across the projects, just based on the
commonality (without looking at the code yet). I just spoke again to Brett,
and before I forget, I figured I would send an email out on the subject. =)
That definitely sounds interesting. The "OBR" that is included in ACE consists
of a couple of bundles. By default we include these as part of the ACE server. They can
also be deployed in a stand-alone OSGi framework. Option number three is not using them
at all but instead hooking up to an external repository that exposes the same OBR
metadata.
ACE actually contains code that scans a directory and (re)generates OBR
metadata based on its contents. Maybe that code could be used to do the same
for the archiva jackrabbit-based maven repository?
Coincidentally, I had a discussion yesterday with a student of mine who
is working on a diploma project using ACE OBR, which for our purposes
would need the indexer core (that re-generates OBR metadata) to be
extended. We thus thought of factoring the indexer code out into a
separate bundle/service.
Would such a refactoring help to use OBR interface with the archiva
repo? If yes, we could offer some help.
Premek
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