Transit XML Remote Hosts Declaration
Description
The transit hosts element may contain the declaration of 0..n remote host definitions. Remote hosts will be used to resolve requests for resource via the artifact protocol. Hosts will be evaluated relative the their priority settings.
Attributes
| id | required | The resource host identifier. |
| priority | required | An integer establishing the priority of the host. hosts will be evaluated in accending order (lower number means higher priority). |
| url | required | The URL referencing the remote repository root. |
| layout | required | The name of the layout scheme employed by the remote host (standard layout names include 'classic', 'modern' and 'eclipse'). |
| enabled | implied | The enabled status of the host definition. The default value is true. |
| trusted | implied | The trusted status of the host definition. The default value is false. |
| index | implied | Relative path to an remote index file containing group names managed by the host. Default value is null. |
| scheme | implied | Authentication scheme. Default value is null. |
| prompt | implied | Authentication prompt. Default value is null. |
Nested Elements
| credentials | Optional declaration of a username and password. |
Example
<transit cache="${dpml.data}/cache" layout="classic">
...
<hosts>
<host id="dpml" priority="40" url="http://repository.dpml.net/classic" layout="classic"/>
<host id="ibiblio" priority="70" url="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven" layout="classic"/>
<host id="m2" priority="100" url="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2" layout="modern"/>
<host id="apache" priority="140" url="http://www.apache.org/dist/java-repository" layout="classic"/>
</hosts>
</transit>