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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Artamonov, Juri [mailto:jartamonov@...]
> Sent: vendredi 17 mars 2006 23:55
> To: dev@...
> Subject: RE: [cargo-dev] [Idea] Customization
>
> I tested and commited the patch that does updating of the war or zip file.
>
> You can use TestCustomization file for testing. The variables required to
> be passed are zip file required to be updated and HashMap where keys are
> internal files for updating and value is also HashMap with stringToReplace
> as a key and replacementString as a value. Result file will be with the
> same as zip but in temp directory.
>
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CARGO-300
>
> I tried several way to implement the updating of the zip file and current
> that here is represented is based on reading all files and writing it to
> new zip file.
>
> This way works but this is not effective.

I think it's needed though as we should almost never overwrite the source.

[snip]

> Please let me know what do you think.

I've commented in the issue.
 
> Also, I apologize, probably quality of the code is not like production,
> please let me know what do you think required to be changed and I will do
> changes.

Thanks Juri. This is really an important stuff you're working on as it will
allow customizing standalone configuration which is a much requested
feature.

Thanks
-Vincent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Massol [mailto:vmassol@...]
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:47 PM
> To: dev@...
> Subject: [cargo-dev] [Idea] Customization
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've sent 2 proposals recently:
>
> * one about supporting configuration customization through the use of
> regexp. See http://tinyurl.com/77aa9
>
> * another about generating J2EE archives for different environments and
> more generally a proposal to support modifying any type of zip file using
> regexps. See http://tinyurl.com/le5mq
>
> I've just had the idea of merging the two proposals in one. Imagine the
> following:
>
> * Ability to take a dir or a zip file as input
> * Generate a new zip/dir or the same zip/dir but updated
> * Customizations brought on files/input streams.
>
> This would allow all sort of use cases and would solve our issue of custom
> configurations + the issue of customizing J2EE archives for any
> environment.
>
> Technical ideas:
>
> * Define a Customization interface
>   - takes an input stream source
>   - generate an output stream destination
>   - apply a set of transformations to the input stream
> * Several Customization implementations possible
>   - AntTokenCustomization
>   - RegexpCustomization
> * A CustomizationPack to regroup several Customization together and to
> work on zips or directories. Several implementations:
>   - ZipCustomizationPack
>   - DirectoryCustomizationPack
> * Modify the LocalConfiguration interface to add a new API:
>   - LocalConfiguration.addCustomizationPack(...)
> * Refactor current Ant token filters in configuration code to use the
> AntTokenCustomization class and define a default pack for each container's
> configuration. Users customization packs could be added after the default
> pack.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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