[equinox-dev] [prov] ECF discovery of artifact and metadata repos

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In prep for EclipseCon, the ECF team would like to create a demo that 
discovers p2 artifact and metadata repos.  ECF has a discovery API [1], 
now implemented with both zeroconf/bonjour and SLP providers [2].  We've 
recently done an example that discovers update sites on lan [3].

So, my main question is:  for discovering artifact and metadata repos, 
what is the necessary meta-meta-data? (data about location/access to 
repos).  Is it simply an URL, or is there more to it?  Pointers into p2 
code desired...as I need to do that anyway.

Thanks,

Scott

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_API_Docs#Discovery_API
[2] http://www.lemmster.de/blog/index.php/2008/02/03/168/
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Update_Site_Discovery