* even as an external parent), the POM will be parsed in a lenient way.  Local POMs
     * are parsed more strictly.
     */
    boolean isProjectBuild();

    /**
     * Specifies whether plugin processing should take place for the built model.
     * This involves merging plugins specified by the {@link org.apache.maven.api.Packaging},
     * configuration expansion (merging configuration defined globally for a given plugin

     * We want to make sure that what is ask for in the execution request overrides what is in the settings.
     * The CLI feeds into an execution request so if a particular value is present in the execution request
     * then we will take that over the value coming from the user settings.
     */
    private static Settings adaptSettings(MavenExecutionRequest request) {
        File localRepo = request.getLocalRepositoryPath();

    // together and this really shows the problem of constructing a sensible default configuration but
    // it's all encapsulated here so it appears normalized to the POM builder.

    // We are going to take the project packaging and find all plugin in the default lifecycle and create
    // fully populated Plugin objects, including executions with goals and default configuration taken
    // from the plugin.xml inside a plugin.
    //

                    break;
                }
            }

            if (basedirExpr != null) {
                if (s.length() > basedirExpr.length()) {
                    // Take out basedir expression and the leading slash
                    s = chopLeadingFileSeparator(s.substring(basedirExpr.length()));
                } else {
                    s = ".";
                }
            }

     * all other executions until finished.
     * We also lock on a given project to forbid a forked lifecycle to be executed concurrently with the project.
     * TODO: ideally, the builder should take care of the ordering in a smarter way
     * TODO: and concurrency issues fixed with MNG-7157
     */
    private class ProjectLock implements AutoCloseable {
        final Lock acquiredAggregatorLock;

            boolean isBlankVersion = descriptor.getRequiredMavenVersion() == null
                    || descriptor.getRequiredMavenVersion().trim().isEmpty();

            if (isBlankVersion) {
                // only take value from underlying POM if plugin descriptor has no explicit Maven requirement
                descriptor.setRequiredMavenVersion(artifact.getProperty("requiredMavenVersion", null));
            }

 * There is still the issue of having to run the lifecycle in order to find all the compile source roots and resource
 * directories but I hope to take care of this during the Maven 4.0 release (jvz).
 * </p>
 */
public class MavenProject implements Cloneable {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MavenProject.class);

          <version>4.0.0+</version>
          <description>
            FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY. This is a unique identifier assigned to each
            resource to allow Maven to merge changes to this resource that take
            place during the execution of a plugin. This field must be managed
            by the generated parser and formatter classes in order to allow it
            to survive model interpolation.

          </association>
        </field>
        <field>
          <name>properties</name>
          <description>
            Extended configuration specific to this profile goes here.
            Contents take the form of {@code &lt;property.name&gt;property.value&lt;/property.name&gt;}
          </description>
          <type>Properties</type>
          <association xml.mapStyle="inline">
            <type>String</type>

  latest version of some snapshot artifact. If m2 is offline, SCM operations
  cannot succeed; no artifact downloads can take place, regardless of whether
  they are snapshot versions; artifact deployment cannot take place; certain
  types of tests cannot be setup, since the container used to run them cannot be
  reached or started.