diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/AbstractArchiver.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/AbstractArchiver.java
index 239cb4b7..1de46e10 100755
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/AbstractArchiver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/AbstractArchiver.java
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ 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 7eb21c1b..a43fdf91 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/BaseFileSet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/BaseFileSet.java
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ public interface BaseFileSet
      */
 
     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 c948a53a..9b93a7f8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/AbstractFileSet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/AbstractFileSet.java
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ 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
@@ -178,4 +179,14 @@ public InputStreamTransformer getStreamTransformer()
     {
         return streamTransformer;
     }
+    
+    public void setFileSuffix(String fileSuffix) 
+    {
+          this.fileSuffix = fileSuffix;
+    }
+    
+    public String getFileSuffix() 
+    {
+        return fileSuffix;
+    }
 }