Latest version of an artifact from Apache Archiva

Is there some kind of parametrized url on archiva, where I can get the latest snapshot/release of an artifact? sth like https://myhappyarchiva.com/archiva/repository/com.example/com/example/myproject/LATEST/myproject-LATEST.jar

That feature is not yet available, however you might like to file an issue at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM. A related issue is http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM-805.

To achieve this today, the best thing to do is either:

• use the XMLRPC interface to retrieve the versions and select the latest (you can use Maven libraries to do that if it's for Maven) [1] [2]
• if you know the repository will be a Maven repository, you can grab the maven-metadata.xml file from Archiva and read the <release> or <latest> element