Re: Maven coordinates terminology

2018-06-08 Thread Ross Goldberg
Thanks for the insight, Hervé. "packaging" is not part of coordinates: what you can have is "type" I got "packaging" from: https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Maven_Coordinates Is that page out of date? Or is "type" used in some circumstances / contexts, and "packaging" used in others? For the

Re: Maven coordinates terminology

2018-06-08 Thread Ross Goldberg
Thanks for the insight, Robert. The terminology in my original email was skewed, as I had erroneously thought that resolving was just finding an artifact on a repo from given coordinates; from what you've said, resolving is obviously both finding & downloading a copy of the artifact. The tricky t

Maven coordinates terminology

2018-06-08 Thread Ross Goldberg
Is there any established terminology for the following Maven coordinates situations? (I've included possible terms underneath each situation, in case no term currently exists for it) - have groupId, artifactId & version that might or might not actually resolve to an artifact in a specific reposi