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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by KC Baltz <KC...@Copart.Com> on 2006/02/03 17:50:08 UTC

Best practice for choosing a groupId?

Are there any guidelines for choosing a groupId for a project?  It seems like there are several techniques on ibiblio and I think some of it has historical motivation.  
 
For example, the Jakarta Commons projects all seem to use a groupId that matches artifactId.  So you end up with commons-util/commons-util. I would have thought the groupId would have been "org.apache.jakarta" with artifactId "commons-util". 
 
The other question is: does the choice of groupId really matter?  Does it affect anything beyond helping people locate a dependency in the repository?  
 
K.C.