Being involved in both ACE and Amdatu, I agree it is generic enough to be of 
use to a wider audience. I would like to learn what others think about this. Is 
this something we should accept?

Greetings, Marcel

On Nov 23, 2011, at 15:01 PM, Bram de Kruijff (Updated) (JIRA) wrote:

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> Bram de Kruijff updated FELIX-3241:
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>    Attachment: fileinstall.metatype.zip
> 
> Attached initial code. Some notes on the work in progress:
> * no writeback to files on disk ala ConfigInstaller yet (do we need it?
> * rather crude filename scoped drop/create for updates (could be more suble)
> 
>> Fileinstall metatype artifactInstaller
>> --------------------------------------
>> 
>>                Key: FELIX-3241
>>                URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3241
>>            Project: Felix
>>         Issue Type: New Feature
>>         Components: File Install
>>           Reporter: Bram de Kruijff
>>        Attachments: fileinstall.metatype.zip
>> 
>> 
>> At the Amdatu project we need a way to use metatype configuration files in 
>> conjunction with fileinstall. We use metatype for provisioning using 
>> autoconf deployment based on Apache Ace. In some (development) cases however 
>> we also use fileinstall to supply configuration and it makes no sense for us 
>> to use cfg file there.
>> To support this we created a fileinstall ArtifactInstaller extension that 
>> handles metatype. It's roughly modeled after the configinstaller andf 
>> autoconf code. As it is a rather generic use case we would be happy to 
>> transfer the code to Apache Felix.
>> I'll attach the initial code. If there is interest in adopting this I'de be 
>> happy to update it.
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