* which to start, and using expressions split at the dot ('.') to navigate
         * the object graph beneath this root.
         * @param root the root of the graph.
         */
        public ObjectBasedValueSource(Object root) {
            super(true);
            this.root = root;
        }

        /**
         * <p>Split the expression into parts, tokenized on the dot ('.') character. Then,

            // groupId:artifactId:goal or pluginPrefix:version:goal (since Maven 3.9.0)

            String firstToken = tok[0];
            // groupId or pluginPrefix? heuristics: groupId contains dot (.) but not pluginPrefix
            if (firstToken.contains(".")) {
                // We have everything that we need except the version
                //

import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * <p>
 * Generic implementation of version comparison.
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * Features:
 * <ul>
 * <li>mixing of '<code>-</code>' (hyphen) and '<code>.</code>' (dot) separators,</li>
 * <li>transition between characters and digits also constitutes a separator:
 *     <code>1.0alpha1 =&gt; [1, [alpha, 1]]</code></li>
 * <li>unlimited number of version components,</li>