This means that nothing prevents multiple artifacts for a single component (e.g., `jdk7` and `jdk8` classifiers) from appearing in a classpath and causing hard to diagnose problems.

== Maven component model

.The Maven component model
image::component-model-maven.png[]

== Gradle component model

.The Gradle component model
image::component-model-gradle.png[]

Gradle's dependency management engine is _variant aware_.

	nComp := int(d.tmp[0])
	if n != 4+2*nComp {
		return FormatError("SOS length inconsistent with number of components")
	}
	var scan [maxComponents]struct {
		compIndex uint8
		td        uint8 // DC table selector.
		ta        uint8 // AC table selector.
	}
	totalHV := 0
	for i := 0; i < nComp; i++ {
		cs := d.tmp[1+2*i] // Component selector.
		compIndex := -1
		for j, comp := range d.comp[:d.nComp] {
			if cs == comp.c {

// ControlPlaneComponent holds settings common to control plane component of the cluster
type ControlPlaneComponent struct {
	// ExtraArgs is an extra set of flags to pass to the control plane component.
	// A key in this map is the flag name as it appears on the
	// command line except without leading dash(es).
	// TODO: This is temporary and ideally we would like to switch all components to
	// use ComponentConfig + ConfigMaps.
	// +optional

    # For components that don't use ServiceAccounts (i.e. grafana, servicegraph, tracing)
    # ImagePullSecrets will be added to the corresponding Deployment(StatefulSet) objects.
    # Must be set for any cluster configured with private docker registry.
    imagePullSecrets: []
    # - private-registry-key

include::sample[dir="snippets/dependencyManagement/customizingResolution-metadataRule/groovy",files="build.gradle[tags=maven-packaging-component-metadata-rule]"]
====

== Modifying metadata on the component level for alignment

import com.google.common.cache.CacheBuilder;
import org.gradle.api.artifacts.component.ComponentIdentifier;
import org.gradle.api.artifacts.component.ModuleComponentIdentifier;
import org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.MetadataFetchingCost;
import org.gradle.internal.DisplayName;
import org.gradle.internal.UncheckedException;
import org.gradle.internal.component.external.model.ModuleComponentGraphResolveState;

import org.gradle.api.internal.component.ArtifactType;
import org.gradle.api.logging.Logger;
import org.gradle.api.logging.Logging;
import org.gradle.internal.Actions;
import org.gradle.internal.component.external.model.ModuleComponentGraphResolveState;
import org.gradle.internal.component.external.model.ModuleComponentGraphResolveStateFactory;
import org.gradle.internal.component.external.model.ModuleComponentResolveMetadata;

import org.gradle.api.specs.Spec;
import org.gradle.internal.component.ResolutionFailureHandler;
import org.gradle.internal.component.model.ComponentGraphResolveMetadata;
import org.gradle.internal.component.model.ComponentIdGenerator;
import org.gradle.internal.component.model.DefaultCompatibilityCheckResult;
import org.gradle.internal.component.model.DependencyMetadata;
import org.gradle.internal.component.model.GraphVariantSelector;

	"k8s.io/client-go/rest"
	cliflag "k8s.io/component-base/cli/flag"
	"k8s.io/component-base/cli/globalflag"
	"k8s.io/component-base/logs"
	logsapi "k8s.io/component-base/logs/api/v1"
	_ "k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/workqueue"
	"k8s.io/component-base/term"
	"k8s.io/component-base/version"
	"k8s.io/component-base/version/verflag"
	"k8s.io/klog/v2"

import org.gradle.api.logging.Logging;
import org.gradle.internal.component.external.model.DefaultImmutableCapability;
import org.gradle.internal.component.external.model.MutableComponentVariant;
import org.gradle.internal.component.external.model.MutableModuleComponentResolveMetadata;
import org.gradle.internal.component.external.model.ShadowedImmutableCapability;
import org.gradle.internal.component.model.DefaultIvyArtifactName;