> > How do you propose to implement such artifacts? What impact will > > that have on web site deployment and mirroring requirements?
> Given the URI: > http://repo.apache.org/sun/jndi/1.2.1/jars/jndi-1.2.1.jar > This could redirect to: > http://repo.apache.org/sun/jndi/1.2.1/jars/jndi-1.2.1.jar.descriptor > The .descriptor file could have a specific mime type to let tools > know that they need to do additional processing, or they could rely > on the extension as an indicator. Whoa, so there is no reality for the artifact? We just redirect to a descriptor containing meta-data? I think we can clean that up, and we'll both be happy. > [...] obtaining permission from the 3rd party first. And if they say no, we'll need to do it without such an artifact anyway, so we might as well drop the fiction. --- Noel