Hello Marcel, After reading this topic I would like to make a short remark to this.
I tried to define a custom resource type and also implement a ArtifactRecognizer and ArtifactHelper. First I thought I could implement the resource as a jar file and embed my custom content and to recognize my resource by using certain Manifest attributes. After first tests I had to switch from a jar to a zip archive (used the maven-assembly-plugin). The reason was that jars including Manifests are catched by the default BundleHelper and identified as bundles. Thus not the correct custom resource processor is assigned to such a customized resources jar. As a consequence the resource processor isn't deployed etc. Is the experience I made with this correct or are some other mistakes more obvious? Greetings Wilfried -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Marcel Offermans [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Freitag, 18. Oktober 2013 20:07 An: [email protected]; ghania ferrag Betreff: Re: Uploading a configuration file Hello Ghania, I fixed the link and added some documentation that hopefully gets you started implementing your own artifact type. Take a look at: http://ace.apache.org/dev-doc/adding-custom-artifact-types.html Please let me know what you think and if there's anything we can improve on that page. Greetings, Marcel On Oct 18, 2013, at 6:09 AM, ghania ferrag <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marcel, > > Thank you very much for your prompt and quick response.For sure, I'll search > and read more about the ArtifactHelper and ArtifactRecognizer and implement > them to be able to add our configuration files to ACE. > For the broken link I was reading the user guide from this link : > http://ace.apache.org/user-doc/user-guide.html, and in the section Uploading > artifacts, there is a link for adding support for new types of artifacts > which is not working. > > Thank you very much and my best Regards, Ghania > > > > ________________________________ > De : Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> À : > [email protected]; ghania ferrag <[email protected]> Envoyé le : > jeudi 17 octobre 2013 15h24 Objet : Re: Uploading a configuration file > > > Hello Ghania, > > On Oct 17, 2013, at 21:14 PM, ghania ferrag <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When I tried to add configuration files (which are PDF and XML files) an >> error is displayed : noting that particular artifact is not uploaded. >> In the Apache Ace user guide it said that an artifact is anything from an >> OSGi bundle to a configuration file. >> How we can upload a configuration file using ACE server UI? > > Out of the box, ACE supports bundles and XML configuration files that follow > the Auto Configuration specification (chapter 115 in the OSGi compendium). > > If you want to add support for other file types, you need to implement an > ArtifactHelper and ArtifactRecognizer and add those to ACE. Furthermore, you > need to create a resource processor bundle, add it as an artifact to ACE and > then you can add your new files. > > I really need to find some time to document that more elaborately and come up > with an example. For now, the best examples are in the ACE sourcecode. > > >> Also in the Ace user guide, the following link >> http://ace.apache.org/dev-doc/adding-artifact-recognizers.html( adding >> support for new types of artifacts in ACE ) seems to be broken. > > On what page exactly did you find that link? I could not find it. You can > raise an issue for that so we won't forget to fix it. > > Greetings, Marcel
