// 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;
        // for instance if package produced nothing or classifier problems.
        return null;
    }

            // the default must become the current project of the thread that clones this
            MavenProject current = getCurrentProject();
            // we replace the thread local of the clone to prevent write through and enforce the new default value
            clone.currentProject = ThreadLocal.withInitial(() -> current);
            return clone;
        } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {

 *
 * TODO: move the remote repositories in the requests (plugins will need to access this list somehow)
 * TODO: add request trace so that requests can be linked together and through the resolver
 * TODO: add a Request interface holding session + parent request
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
@ThreadSafe
public interface Session {

    @Nonnull
    Settings getSettings();

 * the {@link ProjectBuilder} service.
 *
 * TODO: replace ModelRepositoryHolder with just the enum for the strategy
 * TODO: replace validation level with an enum (though, we usually need just a boolean)
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
@Immutable
public interface ModelBuilderRequest {

    /**

 properties file could be used the specify $ so it can be interpolated in
 <developerConnection/> but you couldn't use a properties file to specify the
 version of your project say. Anyway, food for thought to begin with.

 - elements that are critical for pom dissemination
 - those that are used locally by the user like <developerConnection/>

* User configuration

    }

    /**
     * Setup exactly the same as the above test, except that the child project
     * now depends upon d, which has a transitive dependency on c.  Even though
     * we did list an exclusion on c, it was only from within the context of
     * project b.  We will pick up project c in this case because no
     * restrictions were placed on d.  This demonstrates that a, b, c, & d will