On Thursday, November 4, 2010, Marcel Offermans
<[email protected]> 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?

Actually, the Felix maven bundle plugin also has such code which is
reusing Felix bundlerepository library to create the fragments of XML
based on a given manifest object.

>
> Greetings, Marcel
>
>

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