Sounds great! The current scanners already sound really good and the ability
to embed this into a project by itself would be quite valuable.

Would this mean that pax-runner would just use pax-scanner and then
pax-scanner could be used individually or triggered/configured from
pax-runner?

-AZ

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alin Dreghiciu <adreghi...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I wanted for a long time to startup a new Pax project named Pax Scanner.
>
> The idea is to provide divers scanners that can produce list of artifacts
> (maybe change sets?). Then divers processors can process the scanned
> artifacts as for example for bundles install/install (a la file install),
> some may enhance eventual bundles, some can transform classic artifacts into
> bundles, or wars into web bundles. And so on.
>
> I basically want to start by extracting pax runner scanners into a separate
> project (like I did with pax swissbox/url) and then make them possible to be
> used from Pax Runner, as standalone projects or via other tools like
> Filippo's Pax Pyo.
>
> For now we have the following scanners:
>
>    - bundles scanned from a directory
>    - bundles scanned from jar file
>    - bundles from an url
>    - bundles from a maven pom files
>    - bundles from composite specs
>    - bundles from Apache Karaf features repository.
>
> After extraction we can add the processing pipe and the triggers that could
> trigger the scanning process in divers ways, e.g. like quartz?.
>
> WDYT?
> And do not hesitate to come up with ideas ;).
>
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