/**
 * A result of collecting, flattening, and resolving {@link DependencyCoordinates}s.
 * Dependency is the output of the <dfn>collection</dfn> process, which builds the graph of dependencies,
 * followed by <dfn>flattening</dfn> and <dfn>resolution</dfn>.
 * The version selection is done for each dependency during the collection phase.

 *
 * <p>Each {@code Artifact} instance is basically an exact pointer to a file in a Maven repository.
 * {@code Artifact} instances are created when <dfn>resolving</dfn> {@link ArtifactCoordinates} instances.
 * Resolving is the process that selects a {@linkplain #getVersion() particular version}

            If a Java project contains multiple main sources with different target versions,
            then a multi-version <abbr>JAR</abbr> file will be created
            with the lowest version taken as the <dfn>base version</dfn>.
            If this element is omitted, then the default target version is the compiler default value,
            which is usually the version of the Java environment running Maven.