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Posted to dev@archiva.apache.org by Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com> on 2010/03/10 16:01:43 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

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

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:55 AM,  <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> Author: brett
> Date: Wed Mar 10 14:55:59 2010
> New Revision: 921376
>
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=921376&view=rev
> Log:
> [MRM-1282] remove duplicated artifact population, ensuring the metadata consumer now sets facets correctly too
...

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

Posted by Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>.
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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