Basically, you need to support the following features: - proxy - aggregation (ie groups) - automatic transformation of Maven repo in a P2 one: Nexus does it by supporting the notion of repo listener, which is notified each time a new artifact is stored in the Maven repo, the listener looks if this is an OSGI artifact and add it to the associated P2 repository. This is really helpfull when you need to use in an Eclipse plugin (with Tycho) a Maven produced artifact OSGIfied with the Maven Felix BND plugin. The P2 repo is stored under the Maven repo (in a hidden .xxx directory)
In order to do that, we need to run all P2 stuff in an OSGI container so it would be simple if Archiva is OSGI based, a little bit more complex if we need to launch an OSGI framework. But it has some impact on Archiva plugin packaging Jeff On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Olivier Lamy <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/10/17 Jeff MAURY <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > > > having a lot of problems with Nexus OSS P2 support, I'm wondering if > there > > is any work done or planned in order to support P2 repos in Archiva ? > > Also, is there a documentation about the internal architecture and > > extension points ? > Currently no extensions point except writing a consumer which won't > really help in your case. > It's on my TODO list to review a bit the architecture to be able to > write your own repository type. > This need some refactoring as in some parts we are very maven centric :-). > > BTW as I'm noob in p2 I will ask support from people with more > knowledge on this part. > I don't know if p2 support is just a kind of proxy which cache file in > the mrm or if this need to do some deps resolution. > > > > > > Thanks > > Jeff > > > > -- > > Jeff MAURY > > > > > > "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually > > working and scaling. > > - Bjarne Stroustrup > > > > http://www.jeffmaury.com > > http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com > > http://www.twitter.com/jeffmaury > > > > -- > Olivier Lamy > Talend: http://coders.talend.com > http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy > -- Jeff MAURY "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling. - Bjarne Stroustrup http://www.jeffmaury.com http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com http://www.twitter.com/jeffmaury
