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 Legacy Artifact Handlers Reference
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 Hervé Boutemy
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 2013-08-02
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Legacy Artifact Handlers Reference

  Maven 3 artifact handlers (see {{{../maven-artifact/apidocs/org/apache/maven/artifact/handler/ArtifactHandler.html} API}})

  modelVersion. This is required so that a change from modelVersion 4.0.0 to
  4.1.0 doesn't cause compatibility problems with users who have not upgraded
  their projects. It also allows for a certain amount of legacy support into the
  future. Therefore, we should rename this file from pom.xml in the maven-core
  jarfile to pom-4.0.0.xml (and successive revisions to the base pom made to