Beginnings of "Hacking Archiva" document.

[Joakim Erdfelt]

I just committed an initial xdoc for the "Hacking Archiva" set of documents. Static Copy: http://joakim.erdfelt.com/maven/archiva-1.0/hacking/index.html Once I got past the 'Getting Started' section, I outlined a collection of Concepts present within Archiva that might need more thought. Since I'm so close to the code, I have my own (obviously skewed) view of what's important and what's not. I could use the opinions of other developers here to flesh out what concepts need to be detailed the best. I'm copy/pasting this list in this email to aide in this discussion. Concepts Modules & Source Tree Plexus Basics Purpose Role & Hint Descriptors META-INF/plexus/components.xml META-INF/plexus/application.xml src/test/resources/${package}/${test}.xml plexus-maven-plugin generated and/or merge javadoc tags Model Heirarchy of artifacts. Project: ( group Id + artifact Id ) Versioned: ( project + version ) Artifact: ( versioned + classifier + type ) Types of objects. Archiva Project Model Archiva Artifact Java Platform Extension Archiva Repository Archiva Reposiotry Metadata Repository Statistics Repository Problem Types of Repositories Local / Managed file://... URLs only Indexed Statistics Remote Database / Persistence JDO / JPox Query / Constraints Declarative Simple Scheduling How plexus-quartz & plexus-taskqueue fit in. Types of Jobs Repository Scanning Known Files Ignored Files Unknown Files Database Updates Periodic Unprocesed Process Cleanup Nightly Consumers Purpose Discovery Configuration Types of Consumers Repository Artifact Database Unprocessed Database Cleanup Repository Connectors Proxy Connector Pre Download Policies Post Download Policies Maven Artifact / Project Libraries Bidirectional Repository Layout Project Readers Project Filters Project Resolvers Indexer Bytecode File Content Hashcodes Analyze / Index Search / Query Reporting Reporting Manager Artifact Reports Metadata Reports Project Reports Web Framework Webwork & XWork <archiva: /> taglib <archiva:copy-paste /> <archiva:download /> <archiva:group-id-link /> Thanks in advance! -- - Joakim Erdfelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archiva Developer Alpaca Founding Member