}
        }

        if (!hasBeenPackagedDuringThisSession(project)) {
            // fallback to loose class files only if artifacts haven't been packaged yet
            // and only for plain old jars. Not war files, not ear files, not anything else.
            return determineBuildOutputDirectoryForArtifact(project, artifact);
        }

        // The fall-through indicates that the artifact cannot be found;

     *
     * 1. We'll want to use something like @PolyNull once we can make that work for the various
     * platforms we target.
     *
     * 2. Kotlin's Map type has a getOrDefault method that accepts and returns a "plain V," in
     * contrast to the "V?" type that we're using. As a result, Kotlin sees a conflict between the
     * nullness annotations in ImmutableMap and those in its own Map type. In response, it considers