Hi Trygve, no, Proximity does not have any dependency on Maven (or Spring used in WAR) whatsoever. Proximity is made from px-core, an extensible proxy engine, and is extended to be a Maven1/2 proxy using px-core-maven, the Maven bindings for Proximity. This binding extends the Proximity index content by POM parsed stuff, brings in a new "proxy" logic to be able to distinguish metadata, POMs, etc.
Proximity does not handle Maven repository as MAVEN REPOSITORY. It handles it as any HTTP content (huh, not a 100% true but almost, this is the fact that "proximity-logic" drives the request fulfillment). You could even use proximity as a simple proxy-server for any other content! Example: Put a proximity instance with HTTP remote peer pointing to http://proximity.abstracthorizon.org/ and request the /index.html page from proximity (http://localhost:8080/index.html)! :) It will fetch it for you, complete with pictures! Proximity itself (in current RCx version) is not aware about Maven repository it serves. This is why it is so simple. A later feature will incorporate a response transformation (a la J2EE filters), that would be used to transform content (eg .POMs) on the fly to smthin... but this will be (again) in Maven binding, and not in px-core (where remotePeer implementations resides). Still, the physical transport abstraction (as Wagon is itself) is already given by Proximity using RemoteStorage interface (and currently have HTTP and FTP implementations). AFAIK, Wagon itself does not handle POMs,it only transports resources (files, streams). Maven Wagon could be eventually the third RemotePeer implementation... but one of the problem I see with Wagon is inability to inquire the file without fetching it (like HTTP HEAD method or FTP LIST method), which is used by Proximity to check quickly a file existence remotely or fetch it's attributes without fetching the whole file. And this feature is important from Proximity's aspect, enabling faster response times in some cases. Sorry for this long mail :) Have fun ~t~ On 7/24/06, Trygve Laugstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tamás Cservenák wrote: > Hi all, > > i just want to announce that Proximity RC2 (in preparation) just got richer > with a FTPRemotePeer, thus, it is able to proxy FTP remote repositories Shouldn't you be using Maven Wagon to transfer files? That way you can support any of the repository types that Maven itself support. -- Trygve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
