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  John Casey
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  2005-04-08
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Offline Mode Design

* UPDATE: 18-April-2005

  We cannot take the approach outlined below of detecting which remote
  repositories are "really" offline, since offline mode is more of a behavior,
  and this will lead to counter-intuitive results. A different feature may exist
  unimplemented, which is to detect when the network is down and provide better

 * resources
 *
 * We need to look at Maven, and Nexus as use cases and figure out what each of them needs to be
 * able to do
 *
 * - now what is really the difference between this and loading a component in plexus - custom
 * classloading capability - remote resolution of dependencies - do we want a model for sharing