On Jan 15, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Jason Johnston wrote:
One possible reason is that the resulting JAR artifacts only contain the artifact name (and version), so having the 'redundant' identifier makes the JAR file more identifiable once everything's flattened into e.g. WEB-INF/lib.
I think that's it (I'd been trying to remember from some previous discussion...). A <prefix> configuration element for the jar plugin would be nice.
thx, —ml—
