In order the understand how inheritance works in Maven there are a few notions that you must be familiar with:

 * The maven super model

 * how parent poms are processed

 * the order in which elements in the POM are overridden

 * minimum element-set for a valid project pom


Maven super model

 Inheritance is recursive in Maven but there is a special model which is the implicit super parent in the lineage
 of models you may specify:

    @Override
    public int count(@Nullable Object element) {
      return standardCount(element);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object object) {
      return standardEquals(object);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
      return standardHashCode();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean add(E element) {
      return standardAdd(element);
    }

## Composition by architecture modules

Each [architecture module and platform](platforms.md) can contribute code to any of the elements.
Not every module contributes to every element.

        return@binarySearch target.compareTo(b0b1)
      }

    return when {
      offset >= 0 -> offset * 4 // This section was found by binary search.
      else -> (-offset - 2) * 4 // Not found? Use the preceding element.
    }
  }

  /**
   * Binary search [ranges] for [codePoint], looking at its bottom 7 bits.
   *
   * This binary searches over 4-byte entries, and so it needs to adjust binary search indices

  @Override
  void setCountCheckReturnValue(E element, int count) {
    assertEquals(
        "multiset.setCount() should return the old count",
        getMultiset().count(element),
        setCount(element, count));
  }

  @Override
  void setCountNoCheckReturnValue(E element, int count) {
    setCount(element, count);
  }

  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  private int setCount(E element, int count) {

        return as(type, tagged.getBaseObject());
    }

    /**
     * Gets an element from a DLSequence at the specified index and casts it to the specified type
     * @param <T> the target ASN.1 primitive type
     * @param type the target class type
     * @param sequence the DLSequence
     * @param index the element index
     * @return sequence element cast to type
     * @throws PACDecodingException if types are incompatible
     */

    List<Object> list = new ArrayList<>(equalityGroup.length);
    for (int i = 0; i < equalityGroup.length; i++) {
      Object element = equalityGroup[i];
      if (element == null) {
        throw new NullPointerException("at index " + i);
      }
      list.add(element);
    }
    equalityGroups.add(list);
    return this;
  }

  /** Run tests on equals method, throwing a failure on an invalid test */

                        mapEntry("aaaaa", 5));
                  }

                  @Override
                  public Map<String, Integer> create(Object... elements) {
                    Set<String> set = new LinkedHashSet<>();
                    for (Object e : elements) {
                      Entry<?, ?> entry = (Entry<?, ?>) e;
                      checkNotNull(entry.getValue());

            // Verify only one plugin remains
            Editor editor = new Editor(document);
            Element root = editor.root();
            Element build = DomUtils.findChildElement(root, "build");
            Element pluginManagement = DomUtils.findChildElement(build, "pluginManagement");
            Element plugins = DomUtils.findChildElement(pluginManagement, "plugins");

import gradlebuild.docs.dsl.source.model.MethodMetaData
import org.w3c.dom.Element

class MethodDoc implements DslElementDoc {
    private final String id
    private final MethodMetaData metaData
    private final List<Element> comment
    private final ClassMetaData referringClass

    MethodDoc(MethodMetaData metaData, List<Element> comment) {
        this(metaData.ownerClass, metaData, comment)
    }