Re: [aether-users] Why two Artifact interfaces?

[Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cristiano Gavião wrote:

> I'm starting with Aether and Maven plugin development.
>
> while creating a plugin that process it dependencies in POM I noted two
> Artifact interfaces:
>
>   * org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact
>
>   * org.sonatype.aether.artifact.Artifact
>
> they have different purposes?

Aether and Maven are separate projects, both define their own APIs, even 
for concepts they have in common.

A similar question came up before, so you might want to check out [0] as 
well.

Note that a couple days ago, Maven 3.1.0-alpha-1 was released which now 
uses org.eclipse.aether.* rather than org.sonatyp.aether.* under the 
hood. So where possible, you should code your mojo to use 
org.apache.maven.* APIs for best compatibility.


Benjamin


[0] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/aether-users/msg00058.html