repository and wagon

[J Aaron Farr <fa...@apache.org>]

Hola.

Hey, I'm still a little behind on this whole repository stuff, but has
anyone looked at maven-wagon?  There might be some similarities:

http://blogs.codehaus.org/projects/maven/archives/000271.html

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Re: repository and wagon

[Stephen McConnell <mc...@apache.org>]

J Aaron Farr wrote:

>Hola.
>
>Hey, I'm still a little behind on this whole repository stuff, but has
>anyone looked at maven-wagon?  
>

What Wagon provides is a framework for plugging in different protocol 
handlers in a structure that is suitable for embedding within 
applications such as Maven. This is different to the Avalon Repository 
as we plug in different implementations without concern for the 
underlying protocol.  You could take Wagon and *use* it inside a plugin 
repository implementation - and given that the Avalon Repo support 
plugable repository implementations this is tootally feasible as things 
stand.

What wagon does not provide is any notion of metadata association with 
artifacts or an abstract equivalent to our Artifact class. Instead - it 
draws a line at the transport layer.  I higher level facility (such as 
the Avalon Repository) could use this to get the data that represents 
artifacts, build classloaders, instantiate factories, applications, etc.

Stephen.

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