-------------------------------------- How To Add A New Component in Archiva: -------------------------------------- 1. Create a project for your component. 2. Declare your class or in this case, consumer as a component as shown in the example below. This should be put at the class level. Ex. @plexus.component role="org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.KnownRepositoryContentConsumer" role-hint="discover-new-artifact" instantiation-strategy="per-lookup" Legend: ** role : the interface that your class implements ** role-hint : the lookup name of the component (your class/consumer) ** instantiation-strategy : how your class will be instantiated 3. Make sure to add the snipper below in the section of the project's pom. This is needed to generate the components.xml. org.codehaus.plexus plexus-maven-plugin 1.3.5 generate descriptor 4. Package your project by executing 'mvn clean package' 5. Let's say you are using the apache-archiva-1.0-beta-2-SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz to run Archiva. Unpack the binaries then go to bin/linux-x86-32/ (assuming you are running on Linux), then execute './run.sh console'. Then stop or shutdown Archiva after it started. (This is necessary to unpack the war file.) 6. Copy the jar file you created in #3 in apache-archiva-1.0-beta-2-SNAPSHOT/apps/archiva/webapp/lib/ 7. Add the necessary configurations in archiva.xml (in this case, add 'discover-new-artifact' as a ) 8. Start up Archiva again.