diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/AbstractArchiver.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/AbstractArchiver.java
index 3fab3dd2a..5cdfdef4d 100755
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/AbstractArchiver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/AbstractArchiver.java
@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ public void addFileSet( @Nonnull final FileSet fileSet )
         collection.setCaseSensitive( fileSet.isCaseSensitive() );
         collection.setUsingDefaultExcludes( fileSet.isUsingDefaultExcludes() );
         collection.setStreamTransformer( fileSet.getStreamTransformer() );
+        collection.setFileSuffix( fileSet.getFileSuffix() );
 
         if ( getOverrideDirectoryMode() > -1 || getOverrideFileMode() > -1 )
         {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/BaseFileSet.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/BaseFileSet.java
index a3cc2f892..6d6e62f31 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/BaseFileSet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/BaseFileSet.java
@@ -64,5 +64,10 @@ public interface BaseFileSet
      * @return The transformers.
      */
     InputStreamTransformer getStreamTransformer();
-
+    
+    /**
+     * Returns the suffix
+     */
+    String getFileSuffix();
+    
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/AbstractFileSet.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/AbstractFileSet.java
index 73dbb2357..785af26cc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/AbstractFileSet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/AbstractFileSet.java
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractFileSet<T extends AbstractFileSet>
     private boolean includingEmptyDirectories = true;
 
     private InputStreamTransformer streamTransformer = null;
+    
+    private String fileSuffix;
 
     /**
      * Sets a string of patterns, which excluded files
@@ -189,5 +191,16 @@ public InputStreamTransformer getStreamTransformer()
     {
         return streamTransformer;
     }
+    
+    public void setFileSuffix(String fileSuffix) 
+    {
+        this.fileSuffix = fileSuffix;
+    }
+        
+    @Override
+    public String getFileSuffix() 
+    {
+        return fileSuffix;
+    }
 
 }