// Alright, here's the justification for all the regexp wizardry below...
        //
        // Continuum and other server-like apps may need to locate the user-level and
        // global-level settings somewhere other than ${user.home} and ${maven.home},
        // respectively. Using a simple replacement of these patterns will allow them

        // Note that the ModelProcessor#locatePom never returns null
        // while the ModelParser#locatePom needs to return an existing path!
        Path pom = modelParsers.stream()
                .map(m -> m.locate(projectDirectory)
                        .map(org.apache.maven.api.services.Source::getPath)
                        .orElse(null))
                .filter(Objects::nonNull)
                .findFirst()

        Path pomPath = pomFile.resolveSibling(relativePath).normalize();
        if (Files.isDirectory(pomPath)) {
            pomPath = context.locate(pomPath);
        }

        if (pomPath == null || !Files.isRegularFile(pomPath)) {
            return Optional.empty();
        }

        if (repositoryUrl.contains("${")) {
            // the repository url contains unresolved properties and getting the basedir is not possible
            // in JDK 20+ 'new URL(string)' will fail if the string contains a curly brace
            this.basedir = null;
        } else {
            try {
                URL url = new URL(repository.getUrl());
                if ("file".equals(url.getProtocol())) {