Fair enough, I didn't really consider mirroring.
Is this going to be able to communicate over ports _other_ than 80 - for
example ftp as I have terrible trouble sitting behind a corportate -
_we_know_everything_much_better_than_you_ - firewall.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 09 August 2001 11:23 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Version numbers on release JARs
>
>
> "Morrison, John" wrote:
> >
> > Most of the jar files are only a few hundred k - could they
> be stored as
> > blobs of some form in a database which the jjar server queries?
>
> If you wish. However, that makes distributing the repository
> harder, as
> it isn't just a directory somewhere on a webserver, but now something
> that requires a little more maintenance.
>
> I think the lighter this is the better. I hope that this catches on,
> and we can start moveing the model from a large central
> repository to a
> central repository with distributed nodes, so other projects
> (JDOM, for
> example) can maintain their own repository and descriptor -
> so a project
> (like JDOM) we be in full control of the definition of the 'lastest
> version' and dependencies. I would imagine that it would
> work by having
> the central repository know about the project but only maintain a
> 'pointer' to the hosting repository. So JJAR would query the central
> repo, and get redirected (generally speaking) to the project specific
> repository. You could also have it redirect to equal 'slave' central
> repositories. Wouldn't be too hard to do. That will give us some
> scalability.
>
> JJAR right now works against a repository I set up on a machine I have
> at a colo site. I will move the repository here to jakarta so others
> can play with the contents and repository descriptor.
>
> geir
>
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> Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> System and Software Consulting
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