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Archiva is installed in /opt/apache-archiva-1.1.23. It is run using the Java Service Wrapper, and is started by the system init scripts.
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Currently it is run as a standalone server to best isolate it from the Continuum instance.
Note: The useres users database is currently seperate from Continuum's due to being in an embedded Derby database that can't be shared across JVMs.
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