Amir M. Mir

@proksch, thanks for the code review and comments. I have addressed your comments. I admit that this is not the best solution but it leverages our existing JARs in `.m2`...

I can still look into this and extend the OPAL plugin to use the local JARs instead of downloading them again.

> _Can_ you do it, or _do_ you do it? @proksch I will do it tomorrow.

> One of us is missing the point of the issue. > > From my understanding, the problem is (or maybe was) that OPAL did download the jar files for...

Sure, we can discuss this in person on Monday. @proksch, also, if I understand correctly, `POMAnalyzer` already resolves POMs, JARs, and sources for a given Maven coordinate and stores them...

@proksch, @amottier To implement this feature, I have looked into the Metadata DB code. I have two findings: 1- ATM, we do NOT insert `checksum` for the `files` table. Therefore,...

To give an update, with 64 GB of the heap size, the REST API still crashes. See: ``` $ kubectl top pod -n fasten fasten-restapi-java-5bcb74b56d-tsbv8 NAME CPU(cores) MEMORY(bytes) fasten-restapi-java-5bcb74b56d-tsbv8 561m...

The Java REST API is down. I am still investigating the issue to solve it.

> @mir-am I am a bit confused, didn't the FASTEN server have the `--po` option already? Sorry, I've corrected the PR text. The introduced CLI arg is `--pi`. The `--po`...

> I agree with Sebastian that this is quite a fundamental change, which can impact many components. What path-containing-fields are we actually changing here? There is `dir` for plugins that...