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This config file specifies that the artifact can be used by versions 3.2.0 (inclusive) to 4.0.0 (exclusive) of the cdap-data-pipeline artifact. It also specifies that there is one plugin of type jdbc and name mysql with class com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. Once added, this system artifact would be usable by applications in all namespaces.
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We will now walk through an example use case in order to illustrate how artifacts are used. In this example, we decide to implement an application class that reads from a stream and writes to a table using a flow. The stream that it reads from—and from, and the table that it writes to—will to, will be configurable. Our development team writes code such as:
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