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Hansa Artifact Protocol

Hansa Artifact Protocol

Jan 01, 2007

The artifact protocol provides a location and transport protocol independent URL for any resource of any type. Artifacts could be served from a local cache, remote repository servers or even via dynamic discovery of server networks via e.g. Jini or P2P

  • protocol

    artifact:[type]:[group]/[name]#[version]

  • registering of the URL handler in the JVM on startup of a plain Java application:

    java -cp ..:hansa-bootstrap.jar -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.ops4j.hansa my.Main

  • usage: 
    URL url = new java.net.URL("artifact:txt:ops4j/my/example#42")
InputStream is = url.getConnection().getInputStream();