Elliotte Rusty Harold created MNG-8609:
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Summary: Dependency is not an Artifact
Key: MNG-8609
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-8609
Project: Maven
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
org.apache.maven.api.Dependency extends org.apache.maven.api.Artifact. This
violates the OO principal that inheritance represents an is-A relation. A
dependency is not an artifact. Arguably it has an artifact. However, artifacts
are nodes in the graph while dependencies are the arcs. These aren't the same
thing and mixing them up is a common source of confusion.
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