I use this info sometimes to find the right groupId and artifactId. m2e also uses this info to download sources automatically, and I use this feature very often. You can remove this files by setting addMavenDescriptor to false in archiver configuration [1], but I wouldn't do that.
[1] http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-archiver/index.html Regards, htfv (Aliaksei Lahachou) On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > What are the general reasons for having the pom deployed into the > META-INF? What kind of use cases leverage this info? >
