Jakob:
What is in place is basically something that lets us leverage other repositories that follow the maven pattern. However, it does not go as far as I want. The main thing missing is policy concerning dowloading. I would like to see the addition of the policy applied to validation of jar files - for example, should the jar file be signed (PKI style as per JNLP) or should it be signed using PGP (Apache policy). My own preference is for fully signed jar files and validation against a local truct cert store.
Cheers, Steve.
Jakob Praher wrote:
Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 07.20 schrieb Stephen McConnell:
Stephen McConnell wrote:
Merlin not provides supportCorrection : "Merlin *now* provides support ... "
*sigh*
great work. Thanks - will check it out. I followed some of the threads recently, and am very keen to get a time window ( hopefully in july ) to work through all that great stuff.
Actutally I haven't looked at your code, but I am interested how you implemented it. More like the Artifact thing as in the maven repository or with additional meta-data attached (like packages.list or something).
Regarding Library- or LoadableUnits (haven't forgot our discussion some months ago):
Currently I am wondering whether the optional versioning spec is detailed enough to make a general LU support of non componentized packages - but having looked at some of the MANIFESTs I got very dissappointed as nobody uses a stanardized way to name their extensions (xalan uses '/' as separators and so on .. )
* Are you aware of some sort of standard way to name specifications/extensions ? (I thought that it was the package name)
I think it would be very helpful, if we had such a thing.
and something else:
Having subscribed to the javaone online (I missed it this year - its a pretty long journey from Austra) - I found out that the new meta facility in the language (jsr 175) will be called Annotations. I like the name, since attribute is *very* overloaded in oo terms (corba, uml, jmx use attribute to refer to a field .. ) Perhaps we should stick to that thing too, when talking about custom meta data in avalon.
-- Jakob
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