*
 * <p>Each result is linked to its originating {@link Request}, allowing for:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Traceability between requests and their outcomes</li>
 *   <li>Access to the session context used during processing</li>
 *   <li>Correlation of results with their initiating parameters</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @param <REQ> the type of Request that produced this result, ensuring type-safe

     *
     * <ul>
     *   <li>If this type is {@link JavaPathType#MODULES}, then this method returns
     *       {@code {"--module-path", "dir/path1:dir/path2"}} on Unix or
     *       {@code {"--module-path", "dir\path1;dir\path2"}} on Windows.</li>
     *   <li>If this type was created by {@code JavaPathType.patchModule("foo.bar")}, then the method returns

 *
 * <p>Produced artifacts includes:</p><ul>
 *     <li>{@linkplain Project#getPomArtifact() the project POM artifact}</li>
 *     <li>{@linkplain Project#getMainArtifact() the main artifact}</li>
 *     <li>{@linkplain org.apache.maven.api.services.ProjectManager#attachArtifact(Session, Project, Path) artifacts to be attached to a project}</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>For the main artifact and attached artifacts, the

     * <ul>
     * <li>{@code *} = everything,</li>
     * <li>{@code external:*} = everything not on the localhost and not file based,</li>
     * <li>{@code external:http:*} = any repository not on the localhost using HTTP,</li>
     * <li>{@code repo,repo1} = {@code repo} or {@code repo1},</li>
     * <li>{@code *,!repo1} = everything except {@code repo1}.</li>
     * </ul>
     *

  /**
   * Determines whether two possibly-null objects are equal. Returns:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@code true} if {@code a} and {@code b} are both null.
   *   <li>{@code true} if {@code a} and {@code b} are both non-null and they are equal according to
   *       {@link Object#equals(Object)}.
   *   <li>{@code false} in all other situations.
   * </ul>
   *

 * second invocation, so implementors have made various choices, including:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>returning the same iterator again
 *   <li>throwing an exception of some kind
 *   <li>or the usual, <i>robust</i> behavior, which all known {@link Collection} implementations
 *       have, of returning a new, independent iterator
 * </ul>
 *

   *
   * <p>Among the improvements that this method and {@code LoadingCache.get(K)} both provide are:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@linkplain LoadingCache#get(Object) awaiting the result of a pending load} rather than
   *       starting a redundant one
   *   <li>eliminating the error-prone caching boilerplate
   *   <li>tracking load {@linkplain #stats statistics}
   * </ul>
   *

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@code proxy.hashCode()} delegates to {@link AbstractInvocationHandler#hashCode}
   *   <li>{@code proxy.toString()} delegates to {@link AbstractInvocationHandler#toString}
   *   <li>{@code proxy.equals(argument)} returns true if:
   *       <ul>
   *         <li>{@code proxy} and {@code argument} are of the same type

 * actions taken by the java garbage collection system:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>invoking the {@code finalize} methods of unreachable objects
 *   <li>clearing weak references to unreachable referents
 *   <li>enqueuing weak references to unreachable referents in their reference queue
 * </ul>
 *

     * <ul>
     * <li>{@code *} (since 2.0.5)= everything,</li>
     * <li>{@code external:*}  (since 2.0.9)= everything not on the localhost and not file based,</li>
     * <li>{@code external:http:*} (since 3.8.0)= any repository not on the localhost using HTTP,</li>
     * <li>{@code repo,repo1}  (since 2.0.9)= {@code repo} or {@code repo1},</li>