Setting and changing virtual paths in Artifactory

Question

Does Artifactory (OSS, not enterprise version) provide a "latest-release" URI concept, where:

1. Perhaps I have http://myartifactory.example.com/artifactory/simple/myrepo/myorg/mylib/1.0.0/mylib-1.0.0.jar as a URI in Artifactory
2. Perhaps I also have http://myartifactory.example.com/artifactory/simple/myrepo/myorg/mylib/latest-release as a virtual/symlink-style URI that is configured to point to the 1.0.0 URI (above)

Does Artifactory support this concept? Moreover, does its REST API support changing where latest-release points on-the-fly?

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PLEASE NOTE: My actual use case here is I need a non-changing URL to reference from inside a JNLP file (!) but want to be able to change what is served from that URL every time I "release" a new version of a Swing app.

Answer 1

With the OSS version you can achieve this in kind of a hacky way by performing a checksum deployment.
Since Artifactory is using a checksum based storage, you can keep the same artifact in multiple paths without consuming additional storage space.
You can perform a checksum deployment of the latest artifact to a reserved path which will always be used for the latest artifact. The result will be another path pointing to this artifact - it will not consume extra storage and you will not need to deploy the actual bytes again.

To complete the picture, the Pro version provides a REST API for retrieving the latest artifact version.