Publish and fetch a modular jar to a repository

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/07/2012 11:18, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for looking at this.
>
> Here is an update:
>
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jigsaw/repo-add-jar/webrev.1/
I see there's a  webrev.2 with additional comments from Chris so I 
looked at that.

On Repository.ModuleType I see you've changed it to add a constructor to 
take the extension type so that looks better although I do think the 
enum values should in uppercase.

Otherwise I don't have any issues, I think Chris is going to help you 
get this in.

> :
>
> IMHO the catalog needs to be in an extensible format that is easily consumable i.e. it is something that is likely to be consumed by many clients, in various languages, for various purposes. To me that means a textual format. That does not rule out other optimized formats. One can use HTTP content negotiation and/or there can be a services document, served by the root resource, that tells the client what there is and how to get to it (no need to hard code all URIs).
>
I agree it needs to be easy to consume, also we have to assume it will 
change or be extended over time. Also need to thing through use-cases, 
like modules moving to be another repository, etc. I think it will be 
useful to also look at existing and well-established repositories as 
this isn't new ground.

-Alan