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 Maven Core Extensions Reference
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 Hervé Boutemy
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 2016-06-25
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Maven Core Extensions Reference

  Maven core provides default {{{./extension.html}extensions}} as defined in <<</META-INF/maven/extension.xml>>>:

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     *            <code>null</code>.
     * @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>.
     */

but a resource needs to simply become the mapping mechanism by which parameters are taken from the REST side of the application and mapped into a method call within a given Plexus component. Whether that be the core Nexus application or a component provided by a plugin.

At the very least in the short term the resource needs to know how to look up the component that is required to perform the work. This needs to be made simple, for the time being we can write and test plugins working in the...