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Posted to dev@archiva.apache.org by Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> on 2010/03/10 16:08:46 UTC

Re: svn commit: r921376 - in /archiva/trunk/archiva-modules: archiva-base/archiva-consumers/archiva-metadata-consumer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/consumers/metadata/ metadata/metadata-repository-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/metadata/repo

On 11/03/2010, at 2:01 AM, Wendy Smoak wrote:

> What is a facet?  I searched the Archiva website with no results, and
> Google only turned up some IDE-related mailing list threads (like Web
> Facet in Eclipse). -Wendy

http://archiva.apache.org/ref/1.4-SNAPSHOT/metadata-content-model.html

It's a way of storing plugin / functionality-specific metadata extensions - so the Maven specific parts (type, classifier, snapshot info) that is not part of the canonical content model are put into there.

Cheers,
Brett

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