return Character.compare(a, b);
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if {@code target} is present as an element anywhere in {@code array}.
   *
   * @param array an array of {@code char} values, possibly empty
   * @param target a primitive {@code char} value
   * @return {@code true} if {@code array[i] == target} for some value of {@code i}
   */
  public static boolean contains(char[] array, char target) {

     */
    ModelSource resolveModel(String groupId, String artifactId, String version) throws UnresolvableModelException;

    /**
     * Tries to resolve the POM for the specified parent coordinates possibly updating {@code parent}.
     * <p>
     * Unlike the {@link #resolveModel(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)} method, this method

     */
    String BOM = "bom";

    /**
     * Artifact type name for a JAR file that can be placed either on the class-path or on the module-path.
     * The path (classes or modules) is chosen by the plugin, possibly using heuristic rules.
     * This is the behavior of Maven 3.
     */
    String JAR = "jar";

    /**
     * Artifact type name for a fat-JAR file that can be only on the class-path.

    return Integer.compare(a, b);
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if {@code target} is present as an element anywhere in {@code array}.
   *
   * @param array an array of {@code int} values, possibly empty
   * @param target a primitive {@code int} value
   * @return {@code true} if {@code array[i] == target} for some value of {@code i}
   */
  public static boolean contains(int[] array, int target) {

   * cookies.
   */
  fun saveFromResponse(
    url: HttpUrl,
    cookies: List<Cookie>,
  )

  /**
   * Load cookies from the jar for an HTTP request to [url]. This method returns a possibly
   * empty list of cookies for the network request.
   *
   * Simple implementations will return the accepted cookies that have not yet expired and that
   * [match][Cookie.matches] [url].
   */

 *
 */
@Deprecated
//
// Used by Tycho and will break users and force them to upgrade to Maven 3.1 so we should really leave
// this here, possibly indefinitely.
//
public interface RepositoryCache {

    /**
     * Puts the specified data into the cache. <strong>Warning:</strong> The cache will directly save the provided

   * other iterable type.
   *
   * @param element the element to count occurrences of
   * @return the number of occurrences of the element in this multiset; possibly zero but never
   *     negative
   */
  int count(@CompatibleWith("E") @CheckForNull Object element);

  // Bulk Operations

  /**

I'll tell you a bit more about these **concepts** here, and that would hopefully give you the **intuition** you would need to decide how to deploy your API in very different environments, possibly even in **future** ones that don't exist yet.

    public static final String API_V4_REALMID = "maven.api.v4";

    /**
     * During normal command line build, ClassWorld is loaded by jvm system classloader, which only includes
     * plexus-classworlds jar and possibly javaagent classes, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4747.
     * <p>
     * Using ClassWorld to determine plugin/extensions realm parent classloaders gives m2e and integration test harness

import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

/**
 * Unchecked variant of {@link java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException}. As with {@code
 * ExecutionException}, the exception's {@linkplain #getCause() cause} comes from a failed task,
 * possibly run in another thread.
 *
 * <p>{@code UncheckedExecutionException} is intended as an alternative to {@code
 * ExecutionException} when the exception thrown by a task is an unchecked exception. However, it