[CJAN/JJAR] Vote: files or services

[Vincent Massol]

Instead of viewing the repository of jars as simply a set of files, I would
prefer to view it as a set of services, all related to publishing and
querying files. Examples of services would be :
- get a version of a jar,
- list all files released since such date,
- upload a new version,
- ...

Or do you want to stay at the very low level of files and have the client
side API implement these services by looking at a master index ? Ideally we
would probably want that different types of clients can access these
services.

For example :
- the jakarta web site itself could access these services for the news page
and for the download pages
- some external news portal could access these services to get information
about latest releases of Jakarta
- ...

What do you want it to be ? Files or Services ?
Thanks
Vincent.