encoding was used by plugins)

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    (defaults to <<<UTF-8>>> since Maven 4.0.0, no default value was provided in Maven 3.x, plugins usually defaulting
    to <<<UTF-8>>>)

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  the system can't tell whether it has access to the network required by these
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  Offline mode really means anticipating a lack of network connectivity, and as
  a result turning off certain services provided by m2 and providing a coherent
  way of predicting and reporting when network-related failures will take place.
  It means warning users that since the network is missing, certain features and

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     *            <code>null</code>.
     * @param sourceDominant A flag indicating whether either the target object or the source object provides the
     *            dominant data.
     * @param hints A set of key-value pairs that customized merger implementations can use to carry domain-specific
     *            information along, may be <code>null</code>.
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but a resource needs to simply become the mapping mechanism by which parameters are taken from the REST side of the application and mapped into a method call within a given Plexus component. Whether that be the core Nexus application or a component provided by a plugin.

At the very least in the short term the resource needs to know how to look up the component that is required to perform the work. This needs to be made simple, for the time being we can write and test plugins working in the...