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Maven Artifact Naming

artifactId

The name of a libProject/product used in VCS should be reflected in the artifactId of the project. Additionally, it is common to prefix all modules (including the parent) in a multimodule project. E.g. commons-parent, commons-log, commons-file.

groupId

Choosing a groupId is a bit trickier: - groupId + some variant of the artifactId should be equal to the java package - The directory structure of the project must match the Java package structure - The groupId should thus follow SUN's Naming Conventions. (So do not use camelCase!)

Some well-named artifacts

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-plugin-parent</artifactId>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>

<groupId>com.telenor.cinclus</groupId>
<artifactId>cinclus-parent</artifactId>

<groupId>com.telenor.cinclus.store.sql</groupId>
<artifactId>cinclus-sql-helper</artifactId>

<groupId>com.telenor.cinclus.transport.jms</groupId>
<artifactId>cinclus-jms-helper</artifactId>