Provide JDK download URIs

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2021-02-05 05:25, Christian Stein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> coming back to an old [0] but still relevant [1] idea to host a 
> "jdk-matrix.properties" file directly on java.net <http://java.net>.
>
> Keeping [2] up-to-date is automated but uses brittle HTML source 
> parsing to grab the download URIs for various JDK versions and 
> projects. It would be more stable if it was updated only on 
> changes/uploads to java.net <http://java.net> -- and also hosted there.
Hi Christian,

I like your idea -- I think it makes sense to publish some kind of 
machine readable manifest of available binary releases on jdk.java.net. 
I'll discuss with my colleagues at Oracle to see if it is possible to 
implement with a reasonable amount of effort.

/Magnus

>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
> [0]: 
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/web-discuss/2018-May/000533.html 
> <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/web-discuss/2018-May/000533.html>
> [1]: https://twitter.com/sormuras/status/1357536058662084608 
> <https://twitter.com/sormuras/status/1357536058662084608>
> [2]: 
> https://github.com/sormuras/bach/blob/master/install-jdk.properties 
> <https://github.com/sormuras/bach/blob/master/install-jdk.properties>

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