Re: How to add a file share as (virtual) repository into Nexus

by Brian Fox :: Rate this Message:

If you want to point nexus at a file system, you don't even need a plugin to do this. Simply change the storage folder for the hosted repository to be where your files are on disk. You then should set the cache timeouts to be very short since Nexus wouldn't see the deploys, and then schedule a reindex fairly often so it will index the changes.

I doubt you would see a significant performance impact from just moving directly to http for the deploys though as compared to a file copy, and you would have less hassle in the way of updated cache and indexes.

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Anders Hammar <anders@...> wrote:

Possibly the nexus-dev mailing list is more appropriate for this.
A Nexus plugin is just a Plexus component (or a group of components).
The thing is to figure out what "type" of Plexus component (the role)
you need to implement. I would start by finding the source code for
the existing virtual repo plugins and look at how things are done
there

/Anders

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:36, Rainer Himmeroeder
<rainer.himmeroeder@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we are trying to find a way to use build artefacts residing on a file share
> for Maven builds without deploying them into a Maven repository.
> Of course these build artefacts can be directly deployed into an existing
> Maven repository. However for technical reasons like the mount of data and
> continuous rebuilds we think it is better to omit the deploy step and
> provide (direct) access to the share as a virtual repository.
>
> Therefore our current approach is to write a Nexus plugin that allows adding
> the file share as a virtual repository into Nexus.
> In order to give a proof of this concept we are looking for information that
> explains how to write a Nexus plugin.
> So far we haven’t found comprehensive documentation about this topic.
>
> Could you please point us to information that we can take as starting point
> for Nexus plugin development?
>
> Regards,
> Rainer
>
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