static String getUserName(); } META-INF/maven/org.apache.maven.wagon/wagon-provider-api/pom.xml wagon org.apache.maven.wagon 1.0-beta-2 4.0.0 wagon-provider-api Maven Wagon API Maven Wagon API that defines the contract between different Wagon implementations org.codehaus.plexus plexus-utils META-INF/maven/org.apache.maven.wagon/wagon-provider-api/pom.properties #Generated by Maven #Tue Dec 12 17:05:59 EST 2006 version=1.0-beta-2 groupId=org.apache.maven.wagon artifactId=wagon-provider-api...

     * @param sourceDominant A flag indicating whether either the target object or the source object provides the
     *            dominant data.
     * @param hints A set of key-value pairs that customized merger implementations can use to carry domain-specific
     *            information along, may be <code>null</code>.
     */
    public ${root.name} merge(${root.name} target, ${root.name} source, boolean sourceDominant, Map<?, ?> hints) {

- we also seem to have information like the plugin lifecycle model that's buried inside the maven execution model
- we also seem to have artifact information tangled inside the plugin model
- we have to deal with scripting implementations (groovy, beanshell, ruby)
- we need to deal with a shared context for plugins, like the guarded mojos
- we need to deal with plugins as core application logic which can also interact with plugins