> Suppose ASF has the following link in the repository: > http://repo.apache.org/sun/jndi/1.2.1/jars/jndi-1.2.1.jar > This is a virtual artifact, not hosted at ASF.
I do not like the idea of virtual artifacts. I think that the meta-data for any component that needs a foreign artifact should contain the information needed by some tool. I don't think that we want to include foreign components in the ASF namespace. In fact, there is a situation right now where someone else has done that to the ASF, and we're not happy about it. --- Noel