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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}})
  define for each {{{../maven-model/maven.html#class_dependency}dependency type}} information on the artifact
  (classifier, extension, language) and how to manage it as dependency (add to classpath, include dependencies).

         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <!-- Shared parent. Doesn't define a lot of things about Apache like general mailing lists, but does
       define the settings common to all projects at Apache -->
  <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
  <artifactId>apache</artifactId>
  <version>1</version>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>

     * <p>
     * Effective properties are computed from system, user and optionally project properties, layered with
     * defined precedence onto each other to achieve proper precedence. Precedence is defined as:
     * <ul>
     *     <li>System properties (lowest precedence)</li>
     *     <li>Project properties (optional)</li>
     *     <li>User properties (highest precedence)</li>

     * configuration expansion (merging configuration defined globally for a given plugin
     * using {@link org.apache.maven.api.model.Plugin#getConfiguration()}
     * into the configuration for each {@link org.apache.maven.api.model.PluginExecution}.
     */
    boolean isProcessPlugins();

    /**
     * Defines external profiles that may be activated for the given model.

            These dependencies are used to construct a classpath for your
            project during the build process. They are automatically downloaded from the
            repositories defined in this project.

            @see <a href="https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html">Dependency mechanism</a>
          </description>
          <association>

            // all the tasks, then the thread will block waiting for all
            // those subtasks to finish.
            // This ensures the number of running workers is no more than
            // the defined parallism, while making sure the pool will not
            // be exhausted
            //
            return new ThreadPoolExecutor(

                        Version.V20,
                        prefix + prefix2 + "(groupId:artifactId)",
                        null,
                        "groupId of a plugin must be defined. ",
                        plugin);
            }

            if (plugin.getArtifactId() == null
                    || (plugin.getArtifactId() != null