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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:05:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: To what extend can Apache Ace deal with .zip Archives
From: Paul Bakker <paul.bakker@luminis.eu>
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Hi M.D,

This is possible by implementing a custom resource processor. On the
target's side the resource processor will let you do pretty much everything
you like with a certain resource type.

There is some documentation about this on the website, did you see that
already?
http://ace.apache.org/dev-doc/adding-custom-artifact-types.html

Cheers,

Paul


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:42 PM, M. D. <moder@abv.bg> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> In order to supply our clients with the latest hotfixes and updates for
> our software, the company I'm working for is developing an Update Service
> which will perform automatic updates and version monitoring.
>
> I'm part of a research group that is responsible for developing this
> Update Service.
> As the Apache Ace seems a very promising solution, I believe that it may
> come to a great help for achieving our company's purposes.
>
> Although Apache Ace's documentation is very rich, I wasn't able to find
> much information about support of no-OSGi artifacts / targets.
> As my company's software is not fully OSGi compliant and most of our
> hotfixes/updates are distributed through MFTs(Managed file transfer) as
> .zip files, I was curious to what extend is Apache Ace capable of dealing
> with .zip artifacts?
> Our goal is to have our MFT act as an artifact repository. Apache Ace will
> then be the linking node in the communication between the MFT and our
> clients.
>
> Please help me understand if this is even doable and approximately how
> much effort would that be.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Best regards,
> M.D
>

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