What about having an XML description of the contents of a repository?
Such a description could serve multiple purposes, it could be used to
enumerate known mirrors, it could be used to segment the namespace -
say we reach some agreement with Sun and all sun artifacts fall into a
namespace of
, signed MD5. I know people
here are touchy about scope, but JAR signing seems limiting in that it
only applies to jar files and is entirely specific to Java.
Tim O'Brien
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